Unless you’ve been in a cave the last two days, you know that BlogSpot/Blogger(/Google) has had a very bad couple of days. Between that and my host, Yahoo Small Business, offering a few incentives to make me blog at a more-or-less dormant domain I had just sitting out there (namely, private domain information and one-button WordPress/Movable Type setup), I took the plunge away from BlogSpot.
For those of you that want to do the same, WordPress does offer a free service (WordPress.com), and they do make it more-or-less easy to move both your posts and Blogger comments over to WordPress (whether it’s the free one at WordPress.com or the host-your-own, full-featured one at WordPress.org). For those with the paid version of HaloScan, you can import your old comments too – check here for directions before starting importing your BlogSpot blog. A couple words of caution:
- If you have links back to previous Blogger posts, you’ll want to convert them to links to WordPress posts after the conversion.
- If you had pics on Blogger itself (the pic says it’s from, say, photo1.blogger.com), you’ll need to move the pic to a new server and change the link and source; some of that small print on the TOS is that pics hosted by blogger.com are only visible from blogger.com.
- If (really, when) the import feature stalls out (it’ll go blank, and you’ll no longer get “new” posts at your blog), do NOT refresh the page it was running on, do NOT close it, and do NOT use the “reset” link. Instead, open up a new browser window and rerun the import; that SHOULD get things restarted where they froze up without the possibility of repeated posts.
Well, let’s see if we can break this thing :-)
Welcome to the WordPress party my friend.
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