Paint Monk's Library to Move to WordPress Soon

Google Plus Demise Prompts The Library To Find A New Home

When Google announced last fall that they would be killing the Google + platform, it set off some alarm bells for me as a blogger.

When will they kill off Blogger? What will happen to all of the efforts my volunteer writers and editors have engaged in? And what should I do about it?

The answer was simple - find a better solution, one that I control, and one that isn't at the mercy of corporate fancy. Thus, I made the decision to move over to WordPress both for the readers, for my writers, and ultimately, for peace of mind.

In the next few weeks, the date undecided, we'll make the plunge to end our time here on Blogger and move over to WordPress with a new URL, a slightly updated site, but with all the content you've found here imported and switched over to our new home. It may take a few months to convert all of the imported files to an easily readable format, but all our old posts will be there. I will spend an hour or two each day cleaning them up.

For the last few months, one of my friends here at the monastery - "Brother Bob" - has helped with template installation on our WordPress site in his free time. A new programmer has taken over customizing the template and adding functionality. Two artists have been busy at work on new banners and logos for the site upgrade.

You may have noticed that this week was absent our "Classic Conan Countdown" reviews - the reason is simple. In order to port them over to the new site, it would double my workload, and I'd rather they be posted on their permanent home than here (with the need to re-post them later). Regular reviews of the current Conan titles (Age of Conan: Belit, Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword and Red Sonja) will continue here until the new site is ready.

Thanks for your visits here, and we're not going away, we're just moving locations. Stay tuned for more information and a "go live" date very, very soon. We are close enough to launch that I can reliably tell you to get ready! See you on the "WordPress" side. 

As always, I am - Wally (AKA Paint Monk)