By David Marsden

Update, 9 September 2026: the move is now happening for real.

smtop100.blog is now running on Micro.blog, with more than a decade of Top 100 posts and images carried across from WordPress.

The important stuff already works:

The old WordPress site is being frozen as an archive, so managers should now use the Publishing Desk rather than posting there.

Coming soon

There are still a few boxes to unpack.

We’ll be checking old links and redirects, tidying categories and navigation, improving the presentation of the archive and continuing to integrate the different parts of the Top 100 family.

We’ll also be moving existing email subscribers across so people can continue receiving new Top 100 posts.

The bigger aim remains the same: preserve the history, make the site easier to use, and make it much easier for managers to contribute again.

Less WordPress faff, more Top 100.

— David
Top 100 Admin

Written 7 September 2026

After more than a decade of posts, reports, arguments, predictions, match write-ups, announcements, awards and the occasional outbreak of complete nonsense, I’m moving the Top 100 website from WordPress to Micro.blog.

This isn’t a fresh start in the sense of wiping the slate clean. Quite the opposite.

The aim is to preserve the history properly while giving us a much simpler, cleaner platform for what comes next.

All published posts and pages from the current Top 100 site are being carried across, and I’ve also recovered the original author information from the old WordPress archive. That means articles written by other managers will continue to be credited to the people who actually wrote them, rather than everything appearing under my name.

That matters to me. Top 100 has never just been “my website”. A huge part of its history has been written by the managers themselves.

There’s already an early preview of the migrated site at:

smtop100.micro.blog

Don’t judge the furniture yet. The content is there, but the design is still basically the packing boxes stage.

The eventual move will keep smtop100.blog as the main address, so once everything is ready the change should be much less dramatic from the outside than the work going on underneath.

The bigger reason for doing this is that I want the website to become easier for managers to contribute to again.

We’re building a new Top 100 Publishing Desk where managers will be able to write an article, save a draft, add images and submit it directly. Most submissions will then get a light editorial tidy-up and go straight onto the site, with the original manager clearly credited.

In other words: less WordPress faff, more Top 100.

There’s still some work to do before the switch, particularly around the design, navigation and making sure old links behave properly, but the important part is already done: the archive has survived, the images have survived, and the people who wrote it have their names back.

More soon.

— David
Top 100 Admin