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Sounds like it all went smoothly – wish I understood plugins and such enough to take the leap of faith and try it that way.
I’m happy with my hosting service – it’s been very reliable with dietpulpit and I can have a second blog added at no extra cost.
I’m in the process of manually moving a free wordpress blog to a a dot com wordpress blog – manually each and every post (for the second time – previously did it for dietpulpit and that was only about 6 months old) – this blog is over 2 years old and posted daily TONS AND TONS to move.
Already moved over over 100 pages and about 200 posts – 100s of post to go. And I can’t even imagine ever trying to move comments one at a time (so will lose those unfortunately). Each post is manually linked to other links. I estimate about two months or more before all posts are moved.
I have no clue how to point or redirect search engines. Just hoping that folks will change their bookmarks and blogrolls and will leave a last post on the old location with a link to the new location. (And change url’s as much as possible like with blog catalog, mybloglog, entrecard, technorati, etc.)
I’m going to check out the link you have for installing wordpress on your local machine, sounds it will be very helpful.
Wow that was fast and your blog looks great! The deep green is very sooothing. Glad it went smoothly for you. I bet you’re just loving those plugins!
I moved to wordpress from blogger around the same time as you.
Wordpress is a lot better, I wish I started off on it.
Also I heard somewhere that dreamhost was actually a very bad host, I can’t recall exactly what was happening, but a lot of people complained about speed (could have been connection speed, or the speed PHP runs, not sure)
Also,I did the same thing as you, I pointed sudoaptitude.com to the wordpress blog and http://www.sudoaptitude.com to the blogger.
However, when I finally pointed http://www.sudoaptitude.com to sudoaptitude.com I noticed that every so often it wont redirect and will just show server not found, did you have this problem? if so did you find a fix?
@Lady Rose: Can your export your posts and comments from the free WordPress blog? I know for a hosted WordPress blog you can export to an XML file, and then import that XML file into WordPress. As for redirecting, it was easy for me because I had used a domain name with Blogger. All I had to do was point that domain to my new host, and the links would automatically be redirected.
@Lisa: Thanks. The green comes with the template I chose. I specifically chose the template because of the green as I wanted to keep the similar colous as my Blogger blog.
@Sudo Aptitude: I haven’t seen any problems with the redirect, although I can’t say for sure that someone hasn’t experienced any problems. My redirect happens at my registrar where I just pointed the www subdomain to my actual domain.
Great Post! I’m glad the transition went well. I’ll point the blogger people here to answer all their questions in advance. Are you enjoying WordPress as much as you expected?
@Turnip: Thanks. I may not have used your services, but I did use your list of plugins. I am enjoying WordPress as I am able to use my development and database background. I haven’t done much yet as I’m still transitioning a few things over, but I will get into the coding aspect.
I think the posts can be exported from a free wordpress blog. I’ve never had the nevre to try it though.
This sounds like a great experiences…
Wow!
I am inspired!
Thanks for sharing.
great post! wish you had made the switch before me – I could have used this guide! cheers – washy
I recently went from Blogger to Drupal and am hosting it myself. I’ve no problems so far with the hosting and I’m very happy. However, I haven’t found a way to input a comments form with the
“Name (required)
Email (required)
Website
Comments”
type of form that you have. I would also love to have commentluv on there. I see other Drupal users with that type of stuff, but to be honest… I’m lost!