Erin Clerico

After working with this process for a while now, It’s time to commit to a price for Manila site masters to ponder. Although mostly automated, there are still a few steps that require human attention. The time a site takes to render (the actual conversion of your content) is a factor - up to 4 hours for a site with a couple thousand posts, pages and gems.

I want to include a year managed WordPress hosting in the price. Former Manila site masters can have us assist with their new WordPress hosting configuration if they wish, or move their site if they wish. We will help with installing, extending, upgrading and troubleshooting WordPress for our managed subscribers.

So how much to convert a Manila site?

Three levels pricing for conversion for a singe Manila website/blog. A Manila ‘posting’ is defined as a home page, story, news post or gem (file upload). All prices include hosting - more details on that to come.

Free for paid-up Weblogger hosted manila sites. No change in hosting subscription fees, current clients must be paid up for their current contract year. Size of site does not impact offer. We will continue hosting WordPress sites for the long term, and providing a high level of server admin including managing plugins and upgrading WordPress plus other server maintenance details for our clients.

For non-Weblogger subscribers are doing up to 3,000 Manila pages, images, news-posts and gems $189.95 for the conversion, plus a free year of WordPress hosting on our new WordPress server.

Non-Weblogger hosted Manila sites larger than 3,000 pages, images, news posts and gems we charge an additional $49 per 1,000 pieces. Firm quotes are available.

Conversion of an entire community of Manila websites can be ported over to WordPressMU - the multi user version of WordPress - this includes a control panel to manage all the WordPress sites similar to Manila’s. This is quoted on a case-by-case basis - again please contact erin ‘at’ weblogger ‘dot’ com for a quote.

Be sure to review this page so you understand the strengths and weaknesses of this conversion porcess.