In the past 24 hours, I created and deleted a new blog on WP. The big advantage, aside from rumors of increased traffic and conversation, would have been the layout. The main thing I admire about Wordpress format is their page tabs up top. I'd love to declutter the sidebars here and create inobtrusive parent links above the fold. I even joined twitter just to fill up the extra space with something more personal and fun. Oh well. At least it got me on twitter.
The main disadvantage is WP wants 15$ a year to import my domain name, which Blogger lets me use for free. I like telling people my site is my name - easy to remember, for one thing - but if I transfer the domain I also leave dead links all over the interwebs because WP's post-page URL format is different. Aside from that, Blogger displays up to 100 posts in edit mode and let's me search old posts from the edit page. I can also add, delete or edit 'tag' names retroactively (and in bulk). But all that tells you is how much I still pay attention to my own archives, and continue to hope someone else will as well. ;^)
I wish Blogger had WP's formatting options but I've gotten used to the navbar and word verification. More than all the above, I'd love to get more conversation going on around here, but I'm not ready to burn all those links or abandon my domain... yet.
By the way, to all the brits out there, congratulations on the 233rd anniversary of your freedom from managing our problems, here. Low overhead is the key to a happy life!
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1 comments:
As a Brit I'm not going to manage your problems. ;-) But I could offer some suggestions.
I would suggest you get a cheap hosting package to go with your domain name and use wordpress.org rather than wordpress.com. You should then be able to set things up so that any apparent reference to your archive pages e.g. www.billheroman.com/2009/* is redirected to the old Blogger blog (leave it in place) i.e. to something like billheroman.blogspot.com/2009/*. And every new page will appear OK on your new WordPress blog - as long as you avoid post names like "2009". Anyway, on import WordPress adjusts all internal links so links between one post and another are not lost.
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