I am attempting to move this site from Blogger to WordPress.
Here is my own convoluted story about why I’ve decided to make the move.
I wanted to self host my blogs. So I thought I would just use Blogger’s features to do that. They allow you to use your own domain with a flick of the ftp button. I also wanted categories and tags badly. Pre-beta, Blogger did not have that capability. So pre-beta, I managed to make a blogger hack work. The very next day, Blogger went beta and I converted my account to the new Blogger. And what do you know? They have categories, tags and other goodies. I felt optimistic. Then the axe fell when I discovered that of course, their categories feature had to use a database and of course, that meant if I wanted to self host, I couldn’t use the dynamic features of Blogger Beta which depended on their database. That was because last I heard you cannot take Blogger’s database with you if you plan to host your own Blogger sites. I was back at square one. It was then I decided to bite the bullet and go WordPress. Apparently, WordPress gives you everything and the kitchen sink care of PHP, MySQL, plugins and other programmatic extensions.
In summary, here are my reasons for doing this:
- Blogger had no categories (though Blogger Beta does, I wouldn’t be able to self host if I used their new “labels” features). Hence, my blogs have no categories. I have no tags. Without tags, I feel like a second class citizen in the blogosphere.
- Fellow bloggers gave me some advice and told me so
- Some articles told me so. Here is one article about it. And another.
- Better now than later (less content to import)
- I want my own domain
Happily, WordPress installed itself easily on my server. Not so happily, the import facility refused to work between Blogger and WordPress. Why?? You got it… Whatever interface there was between the WordPress importer and Blogger got screwed up with Blogger Beta. So either I do the import manually or wait till a nice WP guru comes along to rewrite the import functions. I have decided that for now, I will just play around with the WordPress framework and work on my skins. I’m buying time for the WordPress importer to get back into business. I’m crossing my fingers I won’t have to do copy and paste transfers! All this means that I have no idea when my blogs will end up in WordPress. But I sure hope it happens in this century.
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I haven’t used Blogger, but Wordpress is pretty easy to get used to and is a great opportunity to flex your css/php skills. I think you’ll really enjoy it. If you are looking for hosting, check out DreamHost - they have been great, include easy installation of Wordpress and other 3rd party software, and offer a lot of bandwidth and space. You can use promo code MONEYNHAPPINESS for $50 off. Sorry for the plug, but they’ve been good to me so far. Anyway, I’ll be looking forward to the new look.
-Ed over at Will Money Buy Happiness?
wordpress all the way, hosting on your own domain is where its at, and who doesn’t love plug ins
Yeah, WordPress is the way to go. Hosting your own blog helps to because it gives you more options. Most people do not know that the larger hosting companies have automated the installation of WordPress.
Purchase a domain for under $10.00, buy hosting for under $4.00/mo and away you go….
The drawback with just about every home business is it’s either ,too costly to set up, takes too long to become profitable, or is too difficult to learn.
Even worse, many home business offers are just rip-offs. That’s not to say they take your money and don’t deliver the product. It’s the product itself that doesn’t deliver.
Why? Because the home business “program” was designed to make money for the vendor, NOT the purchaser.
But there are ways to make money in a home business that are realistic, don’t cost an arm and a leg, and can be quickly learned with just a little time and effort. The business of Credit Repair is one such business.
Now some people are intimidated by the very name “Credit Repair”, probably because there are high priced agencies and attorneys who practice it and charge thousands of dollars for their services. But that doesn’t mean they do anything the average person can’t do himself, given the proper knowledge. Nor does it mean credit repair can’t be done as a home business, rather than from an office with dozens of employees.
Before we continue, some explanation is in order. To start with, there are 3 major agencies in the United States who keep records of the credit histories of hundreds of thousands of Americans. These agencies are called “Credit Bureaus” and their names are Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. They’re private agencies, have no connection with the US (or any) government, and are a billion dollar a year industry.
Are you applying for a home loan? Your lender will be checking your credit history with one or more of the credit bureaus. And once you get your loan, he’ll be reporting your payment history to the agency as well. And based on the information in the credit bureaus’ records, you’ll be assigned a “credit score” that lenders look at to determine your credit worthiness.
The business of credit repair involves contacting the bureaus in an attempt to improve a client’s (or your own) credit score. The process really isn’t that difficult, and involves a few simple steps.
1. Have the client get a copy of his credit report from each of the 3 bureaus. This can easily be done online at http://www.annualcreditreport.com
2. Write letters to each of the 3 bureaus and dispute negative information on the credit reports.
By law, the bureaus then have 30 days to verify the disputed information with the original creditor, or they must delete it. They must then report their findings to the consumer, and also send a copy of the revised credit report.
3. When the credit bureaus respond, examine the revised reports and continue to dispute additional negative items.
You may be thinking “Is it really that simple?” Well, while this explanation may be a bit oversimplified, generally speaking, the answer is “Yes, that’s it!”
If you perform credit repair for pay, there are some legal matters you need to deal with to avoid running afoul of the law. For instance, some states require you to be bonded or licensed. You’re also required to inform clients of their legal rights, and to give them 3 days to rescind their decision should they decide to accept your services.
But these steps aren’t anything you can’t do as a home business entrepreneur. They’re intended to protect the consumer, and in general, are good practices that any ethical business person should be following anyway.
So if it’s that simple, why do agencies charge thousands of dollars for their services? Very simply, because they can get away with it! Most people just aren’t aware of how uncomplicated the process is, or would ever believe they can do it themselves.
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Well I have found the Wordpress more easy to use.
I also wanted my own domain for blogging, so Wordpress seemed to be the best fit. It worked rather nicely out of the box, but the categories feature was a little hard to work with at first. It is important to make sure you give WRITE permissions to the .htaccess file (which must first be created in the home directory) and also to the style.css stylesheet. I wondered at first why categories wouldn’t work. It turns out that ModRewrite must be enabled via the .htaccess file. Wordpress does a good job at automatically pruning the configuration files once they are created.
Please can you describe in steps by steps how to transfer my blogspot site to self hosted domain of wordpress software yet to be installed.
My host doesn’t have fantastico and wordpress in cpanel.
2much4free,
I’m sorry I can’t provide a tutorial. I found a web host that helped install Wordpress for me. Then I transferred all my old posts by hand.
I read that Blogger may have software to help automatically migrate the posts over. But when I did my own migration, this software wasn’t quite available so I had to do it by hand!
Cool!