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aaawww sending you hugs Taylor! You have learned SO much that you will soon be teaching me 🙂
ReplyThanks for the helpful post, Barb. I want to migrate from Blogger to WP and I read a post on how to do it but it seemed extraordinarily elaborate–many many dozens of intricate steps and steps within steps any one if which I’m likely to goof up. Plus I already pay Network Solutions for a custom domain and so not sure if/how it would work to switch over. Would I need to keep paying them AND pay for domain hosting on WP? Would I get WP.org free since I already have a domain I pay for? No idea and I’m needing to figure things out bc my book launches in a few months and I’m publishing articles and interviews and doing pre-marketing on my site and want it to look its best. Your post here affirms for me that WP is way to go, but do you have tips on how to make the leap and accomplish the migration and not paying double? Thanks again for the informative post!
ReplyH Daryl,
Thanks for your comment! Blogger to WP can be a bit of pain, but certainly doable. I’m not a fan of Network Solutions, but there are a lot of hosting companies – I tend to go with the bigger ones as they often provide more variety in their offerings.You need three things – a domain, hosting, and a theme. If you have a domain, you’ll need hosting and possibly purchase a theme. Will be under $100.00 likely. Most hosting companies will move your domain for you if you sign up for hosting and if you send me an email at sugarbeatbc@gmail.com I can point you in the direction of some good blog posts that will guide you through the process and I can answer questions. Happy to help where I can!
Great post. I always recommend wordpress (been using it for years and years). Anything else really is substandard compared to it and since Google took over Blogger and then did nothing with it, it’s really not up to par any more.
ReplyI agree wholeheartedly, anxiousgeek! I too was a blogger fan initially (because it was easy) but as I learned about the importance of SEO and publishing and visibility, and how little Google has done to improve blogger, I moved over from the Dark Side.
Given the leaps and bounds in tech, I’m frankly shocked it’s even around anymore! And their analytics are a joke (unless they have installed or opened a Google Analytics account) — people think they’re getting 100K views a month or something, yet selling no books. Somehow 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 3 folks.
thanks for your input.
ReplyI don’t think Google ever really planned to do anything with it, when they bought it they were working on maiing google + the next big social network – I cant remember why they bought it, possibly because it was the big name in blogging once or they had plans to incorporate it into google +, I’m not sure. But they’ve just left it to languish and it can’t compete now with some serious changes.
Blogger is easy, but so is wordpress.com, hell, once you’ve installed wordpress on a server wordpress is easy. I’ve always been willing to help out other bloggers with that, because it’s just better for them. Even of the average blogger – not trying to sell anything – just want to ramble, there are better platforms now. I’m surprised google haven’t closed blogger down.
ReplyHi Anxiousgeek!
I totally agree! I really like WordPress – both forms. Blogger seems like a cheap unfinished platform to me. Each to their own, but I’m with you…sticking to WP
Blogger was great five, six years ago. But it’s not been updated since then and technology moves on quickly. To not make any improvements in that time is crazy.
ReplyI really enjoyed your article, thank you. I’m not a tech-software type, but I’ve managed to put together several WP sites, starting in 2009. In the last few years especially, there have been a number of WP security vulnerability announcements (such as the FBI’s last April http://www.ic3.gov/media/2015/150407-1.aspx). For my non-free WP sites, I always ensure the latest version of WP is uploaded as well as the latest versions of plugins, including security plugins (I keep plugins to a conservative number). After seeing repeated login attempts to wp-admin, I changed wp-admin to another name via a plugin (forget which one at the moment). I think these steps are doing the trick (keeping the sites secure) — anything else you recommend?
ReplyHI CSK, I think it’s well known that all WP sites are targets to one extent or another. I make sure that all my sites have strong passwords and I put Wordfence in place and lock it down – anyone who tries unsuccessfully to login more than let’s say 5 times is locked out for the rest of their natural life 🙂 I do what I can.
Let’s face it – if someone REALLY wants to hack your site, they will.I keep regular backups and hope for the best. Success so far….
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ReplyGreat post. I always recommend wordpress (been using it for years and years). Anything else really is substandard compared to it and since Google took over Blogger and then did nothing with it, it’s really not up to par any more.
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