From Blogger to WordPress: One Gotcha
Reviewing where I stand after the initial awe of discovery has died down, there’s one thing I’ve missed when I moved from Blogger: images.
Indeed, the importing process will get all your posts and comments off blogger without issues, but it won’t copy over the images you inserted in your original blog posts. All screenshots will remain hosted on blogger, which will not only slow down any reader looking up older posts of yours, but also consume unnecessary bandwidth and resources from a service which you don’t use any more.
Of course you could just not care, but beyond the experience offered to your own readers, being a good Net citizen in regards to free services will also help ensuring these services remain free for people coming after you. And may avoid, in the long term, that people see the dreaded red cross should blogger decide some day that it won’t host images for a different blog platform.
So my own posting rythm may slow down a bit over the coming days while I fix my own mess and import my old pictures cleanly into the new Altitis.
Bloggy deliciousness. Questions for you. What kind of widget are you using in the “Worthwhile Reading” section? (Which, BTW, is feeding me lots of hits, so thank you for that.) I would love to add one. Also, how did you get the Dig/Del.icio.us/Technorati links goin? Okay, now I think I’m going to answer my own question. You’re doing WordPress.org, the paid one, am I right? Shoot. Still, could you let me know because I’m thinking of moving from the free one to the paid so I can make my own theme. Thank you!
Worthwile reading: I’m using Google Reader for all my feeds. There’s an option there to share individual posts, which I use to “tag” stuff from other blogs which I believe require the largest audience.
In the Reader’s Settings, you then have the “tags” tab and you’ll find “add a clip to your site” under shared items. If you follow the instructions you’ll generate a piece of code which I have simply pasted into a dirt common text widget.
The search button is a google custom search engine which reads my shared items directly.
The Dig / Del.icio.us things come from Feedburner.com ‘s Feed Flare option which requires you to be able to edit your template files, I’m afraid.
Last but not least, WordPress.org is actually free, it’s self-hosting which can cost something (but there are free hosting packages out there, with the usual caveat that you may suffer from site outages).