Whew! That was a relatively painless process. You must have been praying for me.
My blog has now been migrated from Blogger to my own hosted instance of WordPress. I am SO pleased that I have done this. The Blogger settings console and templating system was not getting the job done for me, and WordPress gives me a whole new world of control over the look and functionality of my blog. Here is just a quick sample of some the new things that you might actually care about:
- None of my old permalinks – that is, the direct hyperlink to each individual post – have been lost.
- None of the 900+ comments from this blog’s history have been lost.
- All of the almost 400 individual posts are now categorized!
- Internet Explorer users, rejoice! Everything now looks and functions the same for you as everyone else. (At least, everything should.)
- The blog search utility now functions properly. The old one broke and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.
- RSS feeds can now be customized according to entries, comments, author, category, or date!
There are a whole bunch of other new things, but I’ll let you discover them for yourself. Enjoy!