Switch to Wordpress

Well that was painless. At least the basics. I switched to wordpress using Blogger RSS Import since I was using the new Blogger and wordpress says it doesn’t support it (although I didn’t look around to see if it would work).

Simple really.

  1. switched my Blogger to publish on blogspot
  2. deleted all the files on my server
  3. wrote a quick index.html to say I was switching
  4. setup wordpress using Fantastico
  5. Changed permalink structure to match blogger: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
  6. Activated Aksimo spam killer
  7. installed Blogger RSS Import.
  8. Imported.

The only issues I see are:

  1. It doesn’t copy comment info (email addresses etc) - no big deal for me since I only have a few comments
  2. I have to come up with a new theme and install anything else I had on blogger (Analytics etc)

Overall I’m happy. Just have to work on the theme now.

Update: Decided to remove the .html on the permalink. Changed custom permalink to remove the .html. Added mod_rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(.*)\.html$ http://www.nadacollar.com/$1/$2/$3/ [L,r=301]

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