https://brian.jazzofjapan.com/wordpress/Recent content in wordpress on Brian McCroryHugoen-US© Brian McCroryWed, 08 Apr 2026 19:03:47 -0700https://brian.jazzofjapan.com/v2-0-substack/Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://brian.jazzofjapan.com/v2-0-substack/<p> <em>WordPress was becoming an unnecessary hassle, and I found an easier alternative by moving to Substack.</em></p> <div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="headline-1"> May 2021: Moving from WordPress to Substack </h2> <div id="outline-text-headline-1" class="outline-text-2"> <p> Substack offered an attractive solution: a simple design that featured newsletter functionality with a nice-looking web archive. The writing interface and dashboard was also refreshingly simple and clean. It was comparatively simple, a great interface to focus on writing and organizing posts.</p> <p> In 2021, Substack was rapidly changing, enlisting high profile writers and sponsoring growth programs, yet the Substack team still seemed to have an independent startup freshness. Their support and outreach team was involved in weekly community discussions and enthusiastic to hear ideas from, and grow with, their writers. The platform was growing, but it was still all about writing newsletters.</p>https://brian.jazzofjapan.com/v1-0-wordpress/Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://brian.jazzofjapan.com/v1-0-wordpress/<p> <em>This online project was first published online in January 2018, but I began to take notes on this topic when visiting Japanese jazz clubs and buying Japanese jazz albums in 2005. Those dozen or so physical notebooks became essential documentation for me as an early version of this project. I continue to take handwritten notes today.</em></p> <div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> <h2 id="headline-1"> January 2018: Starting with WordPress </h2> <div id="outline-text-headline-1" class="outline-text-2"> <p> It was easy to set up WordPress on a laptop and start writing posts. I published the site online using the custom domain <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180415025040/http://www.jjazzist.com/"><code class="verbatim">jjazzist.com</code></a> (no longer in use) with AWS and Google App Engine at various times.</p>