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You won't.

You will still have the site on the .blogspot domain won't you.

 

From what I understand, when you tell it to go to FTP it clears out the blogspot area and put the domain back up for grabs. Could be wrong though.

 

Right...

I thought you meant that you were moving over to WP atthe same time too.

Moving from blogspot over to your own server will be a sinch.

I can't imagine you having any problems at all.

 

If i move to my servers I'll move to WP probably too. Still worried.

Hey I have a WP question, doe sit allow rich text editing with Firefox?

 

Good question.

I don't know. It's something I'll have to look into too.

It would be a HUGE pain in the arse to have to change browsers when I want to make a post.
I'll have a look around and see if I can find any info.

 

I did it! I couldn't wonder any longer and tried it last night. I moved everything from blogger to wordpress. So far so good and I still have everything up on my blogspot too. Comments didn't make it though. So if you'd kindly re-comment SEbasic on the snowman in the new blog that'd be great.

New Blog (under construction)

 

I'll recomment with pleasure

This may help in the mean time though

http://wordpress.org/support/3/12777

 

Yours was the only real one.... ever. Now I just have to figure out how to get around the duplicate content, and some sort of re-direct, since the new and old blogs still exist.

 

How did you do the import?

I thought that you had to basically tell blogger to publish via FTP, thus removing the .blogspot site...

Or does the blogspot site remain where it is? (Well yours has)

Hmmmm - Meta redirect (Not great - really need something better than that)

Or you could just change the blogger template so that the only thing output is something like THIS BLOG HAS MOVED (Or whatever).

 

How did I import? Just like the wordpress instructions said. Then, when that was done, I re-published everything back to blogspot just in case. And yes, I'll edit the template with a message like that sometime.

Oh and I found a Rich Text Editor for WordPress!!!!!! Haven't installed it yet though. I'm scared of the word hack. http://mudbomb.com/archives/2004/05/29/wysiwyg-hack-for-wordpress/

 

Hey that looks cool...

I found a whole bunch of really cool looking plugins today.

I also liked the URL writing (In as much as you can pretty much have the URL looking like anything you like.
I think you find it under >>Options>>Permalink

Really excelent looking.

I even found a whole bunch of plugins that will basically enable you to use WP as a pretty advanced CMS (One that doesn't look like a blog, but like an actual site).

 

Then Post the URL will you, and PM me as well, just to be sure.

 

Of the Plugins?

 

Please, it would be appreciated.

 

Here are a few of the plugins that I thought would be most useful...

Sticky Posts
http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks
http://wordpress.org/support/10/7128

URL rewriting
http://stevarino.com/wp/faked-folders/

Meta Tag additions
http://www.uberdose.com/journal/arc...scription-meta-tags-for-wordpress-xfish_meta/

RSS Aggregator
http://soderlind.no/archives/2004/11/08/aggrss-an-rss-aggregator/

Wiki Plugin
http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Wiki Plugin

Markup Validation
http://www.jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/

Related Links
http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/2004/05/26/wordpress-related-entries-plugin/

Stylesheet chooser
http://www.jfoucher.marinetechs.com/2004/09/02/stylesheet-chooser/

 

Thanks for the links, your a star.

 

It's no problem at all...

You can find a whole bunch of plugins here too

 

Sweet. Plug-ins!! Someone will have to write up a 'how to optimize wordpress' I already updated the permalinks!

Guess what? Not even up for 24 hours and I've got spam comments. However it does show that it must be getting out there somehow.

 

How did you get spam already?!?

I think I have only ever got 2 or 3 spam posts on my blog EVER, yet you got some within a matter of hours.

Damnit! Where am I going wrong?!?

 

Some casino person came in and started posting comments. I think a total of 25 comments all with links to his casino site. I learned about the spam control quickly and that helped as I ended up moderating them before they got posted.

Also, does anyone know of a good stats plugin for WordPress?