Search Engine Tigers

After looking with envious eyes at the plugins and features available for WordPress, I decided that it was finally time to move from Blogger. I had read the directions for the change, and was especially interested to see that WordPress had integrated a migration tool in their new 2.2 version.

The first step was to get a new host, the one that I had wasn’t that great, and didn’t offer a great deal of options. So I picked one of the WordPress recommended hosts, and set up my account. The great thing about this host was that it had a one-button WordPress install. So I went ahead and clicked the one button, installing WordPress 2.13. Ah well, not the latest and greatest, but at least I could use the old plugin to migrate. Given that the DNS would take time to change, I went to bed.

The next morning, the DNS change had taken, and I was able to login to the account, after a bit of fiddling around, I found out that the migration plugin no longer worked with Blogger. Not a great start… time to uninstall the 2.13 version my host installed last night and run the 5 minute WordPress install. Interestingly, I uninstalled the 2.13 version, and the one-button install informed me that I could now install 2.2 if I wanted. So I did.

Next came the auto-migration. I ran the tool, logged into my blogger account… then watched as it told me the accounts that I could migrate, and the number of posts that could be moved. My other blogs all came up with the right amount, this one… 0 posts, 0 comments. Then I realized, this one wasn’t available because it wasn’t hosted on a blogspot domain, but was on it’s own domain. So I tried the RSS migration. No luck. Then, I moved my blog to a blogspot domain, and tried again. There it was, so I ran the migration, and here I am.

The first 100 posts ran on Blogger, but starting today, the rest are running on WordPress.

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