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Vu and Lara at W♥M
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We Heart Music is an online music fanzine, written by music fans.
Currently, we cover Minneapolis/St Paul, Kansas City/Topeka, and Jacksonville/St Augustine live events, but have contributors across the country.
HISTORY
- January 2007: Vox.com was a free blogging service, opened to the public in October 2006. I started playing around with it with a music website (successlessness.vox.com). The first entry for Harry Chapin on Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 07:55 PM
- February 2007: Quite a few friends and music lovers came aboard to help write, including early contributors by Cristina, Ryan, Gus, Randy, Celeste, Jamie, Adina, Minh, Melinda, Mads, Brody, Kristine, and Troy. There was also an anonymous contributor.
- March 2007: We originally wanted to call it We Love Music, but due to copyright, trademarks, and domain registry, we came up with We Heart Music (aka We<3Music, We♥Music, W♥M). The name was suggested by Ryan. It was the best thing for branding.
- September 2010: Vox eventually folded and we were migrated to Typepad.com, where we remained grandfathered in with Vox’s original promise.
- January 2020: John moves to Kansas City
- October 2020: Typepad stopped accepting new customers. We were worried, but thought it was only temporary, due to the pandemic.
- November 2024: Vu moves to Jacksonville, Dave and Thaddeus are now in charge of Minneapolis
- March 2025: Explored options to migrate the website to WordPress, only as a backup plan.
- August 27, 2025: Typepad announced it would shut down on September 30, 2025
- August 28, 2025: Executed backup plan, setup wheartm.com.
- September 1, 2025: Ultrawide support for wheartm.com!
- September 30, 2025: End of life for TypePad
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W♥M
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Vu’s WordPress Diary
08/28/2025: I have decided WordPress is our future home. Granted, it wasn’t my number one choice. I have also previously expressed that I don’t understand the way WP works and that it doesn’t allow pre-formatting and custom layouts. Let me tell you, it was a real struggle to get things up and running, and even now I’m not quite happy with the way it looks.
08/28/2025: I have decided WordPress is our future home. Granted, it wasn’t my number one choice. I have also previously expressed that I don’t understand the way WP works and that it doesn’t allow pre-formatting and custom layouts. Let me tell you, it was a real struggle to get things up and running, and even now I’m not quite happy with the way it looks.
08/29/2025: Now that we’re settling in on WordPress, their compose editor, called Gutenberg, was a total shocker to me. It was so new and different than what I understand of a compose window that I gave up on it immediately, and deactivated it in favor of the Classic Editor. Although Gutenberg is definitely not something for me, I do recognize that many people love this new “block” approach to writing and composing. The theme we’re using is called CoverNews, by AF Themes. It looks like what you would expect with an online modern blog or magazine-style. Personally, I think it looks too busy, but this is what modern looks like.
09/01/2025: It’s day four working and understanding WordPress. I think I am getting the hang of it, but I’ve got a long road to go, because 99% of our formatted TypePad posts need to be reformatted to better display and read on WP. I’ve previously mentioned that WP has rules and behaves differently than TypePad or Movable Type (incidentally, I just looked up Movable Type – they have over 80% market share in Japan!). Right now I’m pretty happy with the ultrawide support for the website. It will also scale based on your screen (so you can view it on your phone).