Setup and customization tips for Micro.blog-hosted blogs
Using your domain name with Micro.blog
- Micro.blog now supports registering a new domain name and automatically configuring it for your hosted blog
- Both Hover (@hover) and iwantmyname offer the ability to easily configure domains registered through their services with your Micro.blog-hosted blog
- For other registrars, the Custom Domains help article explains how to configure DNS settings to use your domain name with your Micro.blog-hosted blog
Migrating your blog from another host and importing posts
- Migrating from Wordpress.com to Micro.Blog, by @burk
Pros and cons of migrating a paid WordPress.com-hosted blog to Micro.blog hosting - Importing from other blogging platforms to Micro.blog:
- Jekyll and Hugo (or any other folder of Markdown files with frontmatter), by @ka (requires Node.js and npm installed)
- Instagram (requires Micro.blog for macOS)
- Any platform that can generate a WXR blog export file (use the instructions for WordPress import)
Custom features and other configuration changes for your blog
- Displaying Webmentions on Micro.blog-hosted Blogs, by @shindakun
N.B. Micro.blog currently collects webmentions for all posts but currently does not support displaying them, although this is planned as an option in the future. It is possible that the above method will prevent Micro.blog from collecting any new webmentions and further work will be required in the future to display both those collected by Micro.blog and those collected by this method; see this discussion and this comment from @manton for more. - Using emoji shortcodes in posts (includes cheatsheet link), by @bix
- Micro Guides from @roelwillems, including:
Customizing the theme or appearance of your blog
- How to customise Micro.Blog, by @custom aka @Miraz
Ongoing, extensive set of tutorials for customizing many aspects of your hosted blog - The Kiko Micro.blog Theme Refined: "Kiko: System" (Kiko with a OS font stack), by @ka