Switch to WordPress from Blogger
I finally made the switch to Wordpress and combined my Tech and Biz blog with my PHP blog. Wordpress 2.0 has added import functionality to their admin control panel, and has a great Blogger import tool. I just followed the import wizard, and my blogs imported just fine.
I put in some 301 redirects from my other blogs to my new blog address. Unfortunately I will lose some page rank on the new blog for a while, but I figure it’s better to make the switch sooner than later.
I went through all of my posts and tagged them up with categories. I’m excited about using Wordpress for my blogging because of the categories and the extensibility. I feel like it is freeing me up to blog about a wider range of topics without feeling so constrained. If someone wants to only get my php feeds, they can register to the php category feed.
I am excited to install some cool plug-ins and themes. I’d like to write my own theme so that it matches the theme of my website.
Does anyone have a plug-in or theme that they would recommend?
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Mike Smullin said,
Wrote on May 3, 2006 @ 9:14 am
Welcome to the family, Jimmy!
Jimmy’z Blog » Blog Archive » Disappearing From Google said,
Wrote on May 20, 2006 @ 11:20 am
[…] About a month ago, I made a switch from Blogger to Wordpress, and imported my php blog and tech blog into Jimmy’z Blog. In the process I set up 301 permanent moves to my /blog/ address, which worked pretty slick. About a month later, I’ve noticed that my pages are Disappearing From Google. After I had made the switch, I read Paul Allen’s post on Changing domain names–learning the hard way. I feel like Marty McFly on Back to the Future when he looked at his family picture and one by one his siblings began to fade away. That is what’s happening to me on Google. […]