Wait for Blogger or switch to WordPress?

By removing the old pages I'm going to loose the URLS. So I figured I'd leave the old pages and start a new WP blog in the same directory. No converting, no loss of URL. Just old and new living happily in the same directory.

 

I guess you could do that, but importing the old blog seems more sensible in the long run.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure... I think, that the sever automatically rewrites the URL before the old page is even sent, therefore you would get a 404.

 

Did you check out b2?

 

We are trying wordpress right now and it looks great
Http://california.realestateforum.com/coronado
Before we've used blogger and it doesn't look half as professional

 

HUGE, Double vote for WordPress!!!

 

I think i can just install WP over the blogger files and have it all work, however importing the posts into WP does sound better. I'll probably just do it and worry about URLs later. I can always use the new Google Sitemap stuff to tell Google about all the new URLs.

 

The only reason to choose blogger over wordpress would be laziness

 

Wordpress (5*)

easy to customize with a modicum of PHP knowledge.

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Here is what I'm going to try. Install WP over my Blogger files and start fresh. All old blogger posts will still be there, at their original URLs, however all new posts get WordPress goodness.

 

Let us know how it goes

<edit>Make sure you use the URL rewriting.</edit>

 

Twister, what ever happened with the install? I am going to be doing something like this soon on a couple of blogs. Wondering how it turned out...

 

I had issues when it came to archives. I ended up transferring everything over ok but not keeping the URLs. I then made sure to make a note about it on my custom 404 page. I also submitted a Google map so that Google could find all the new pages. Seems to have worked out fine.

 

I finally have my wordpress blog set up (in my blogfeed). Just a generic template for now, but wow ... what a difference. The search function, how easy it is to set up links on the side, the whole structure is so much cleaner and way more organized.

I am starting to feel sorry for people using blogger

 

So, did you re-create all of your old posts in WP? I think that is the part I was never really sure about. I am pretty sure you did not just drop that content.

 

I used the Wordpress blogger import script and converted them all over to Wordpress in just seconds.

My original plan sounded good in the beginning, but this was just easier in the end.

 

oooh, I did not realize this existed...I really do my homework well

So you lose the original urls. Got it.

 

Yep. Kept all the posts and content, just lost the URLs. WordPress come with the ability to import from various other blog platforms. Very nice.

 

Looks like they just use the title of the post as the url right? Thinking of making a little script that will grab the urls in a particular directory, and then spit out the 301 redirects for an .htaccess file.

 

I would love you for ever and ever if you did that

 

Good luck to all. I'm sure it can be done with a little programming.