The Best Laid Plans…
Quite some time ago I took the decision to move my blog away from blogger.com. There were a number of reasons for this. Slow response times, particularly when saving posts. Sometimes the saving process was aborted altogether.
Added to this was lack of facilities. No trackbacks or tags being the main shortcomings. All in all, the service was no longer fit for commercial use - in my opinion.
However, after researching the situation I knew it wouldn’t be straightforward completing the transfer to my preferred blogging software, Wordpress. And this is what put me off doing it sooner. Also, I decided I wouldn’t keep adding to the blogger blog, because if I had to resort to manually transferring information I would only be adding to the burden.
But there comes a time when you have to do something, and that time was yesterday (it’s now the early hours of Monday morning) because today I’m giving a talk on Blogging For Business and having a 3 month gap in my blog isn’t exactly a good working example!
Anyway progress was good up to the point where I was ready to transfer my blog from Blogger.com to my Wordpress installation. I set-up the Wordpress software, tested it and was happy with the results.
Now the bad news. Everytime I ran the import procedure the script came up with error messages. Resorting to the Wordpress support forums just proved my worst suspicions, and in fact for some poor souls the situation was alot worse.They’d upgraded to the new beta version of Blogger and the import script didn’t work at all.
I eventually found the answer to my problems and have managed to import the blogger files, but in doing so it has changed a number of settings in the software and I’m left with a heap of formatting and functionality issues that, quite frankly, will have to wait, because it’s now 01:30 and I’m going to bed!
Not an auspicious resumption to my blogging, but at least I tell it like it is. :)
So if you’re reading this, in business and thinking of starting a blog take my advice and avoid blogger.com.