wordpress newbie questions

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by dshah, Oct 18, 2005.

  1. #1
    I have been using blogger and wondering what are more attractive features in wordpress to switch over


    1. How can I modify template (I couldn't find a way on wordpress.com)
    2. Is email-to-blog available (blogger allows it, but no attachments :mad: )


    Anything else you guys can add :)

    Thanks in advance!
     
    dshah, Oct 18, 2005 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    I just switched my blog a few days ago from Blogger to WordPress.

    1. The templates are just PHP files (which you can edit).
    2. Yes you can post via email.

    The Blogger -> WordPress conversion script sucks (I needed to recode parts of it to make it work right), and it doesn't import comments, but other than that, I'm happy with WordPress.
     
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    pcdoc Active Member

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    Bryan Active Member

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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #5
    You dont (yet) have the ability to update your template if you are using a wordpress.com hosted blog but you would with a self-hosted wordpress blog.

    Wordpress is much better at spam handling and easier for you to manage those that do get through. I've been trialling the wordpress.com spam program and it's truly wonderful.

    I would recommend the change.
     
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    #6
    I just set up my blog with wordpress. I really thought the whole thing was very easy to set up. I still don't know much about it, and I need to spend some time investigating plug-ins and such... but I was happy that I didn't have to touch the PHP except for some ad placement. Normally I have to maul scripts to do what I want.
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    Just moved my site from the typical html/php individual page to WordPress. Like anything else, you just sort of have to dive into it. After looking at the themes available, I picked one with a similar layout I liked, then modified the css and php files to my own. Very easy to work with, was very impressed with it.
     
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    I'd like to switch my blogger.com blog to wordpress. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't mind if comments get lost, there aren't much.

    Thanks!
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #9
    Here's the info you need

    WordPress Wiki: Blogger Import
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Hmmm, my response made someone mad. Not sure why. When I migrated my blogger site to wordpress those are the instructions I used. It wasn't entirely easy but it was a good start point.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Shawn, how did you manage to get custom meta tags such as Title and keywords to work for individual posts? As far as I can tell Wordpress uses your default meta settings on all pages of your blog. How can these be edited?
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #13
    Not sure what you mean... I'm not using meta keywords or description on my pages. I haven't gotten that far... I'm still not 100% happy with my template design. :) One thing at a time... heh
     
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    Oh oops, yeh, well at least you have custom Title tags. Right now I'm looking at plugins that can insert your static pages into your blog. This would probably solve all the problems of meta tags.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Using a good bit of PHP logic/code in my header.php template to spew out the <title> tags how I want. :)
     
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    I found a couple of plugins to do descriptions, keywords and title tags.

    I can look them up if anyone needs them.. but I just started using wordpress yesterday and I found them.. so they are out there. :)

    The title tag uses the name of the individual entry, and the description one uses the excerpt.
     
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    I'd be interested in that!

    I'd also like to be able to save each of the searches people do and have a list of most searched and recently searched. Anyone seen a plugin to do that?
     
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