Blogging Sueblimely

After recently changing this blog over to the new Blogger system (from the classic Blogger to what used to be called Beta Blogger), I was able to copy all my posts and comments across from this blog to WordPress on my own domain.
This was done with an extremely handy inbuilt WordPress feature (Manage/Import in WordPress Admin).

If I had been using the new Blogger, categories would have been imported too. The classic blogger system I have been using does not support categories so I had used a workround instead. I now have 249 posts to add tags and categories to and 249 posts that have tags that will lead back to blogspot posts. The workround came back to bite me!

I am keeping this blog in place until I am happy that the move is complete. This involves:

• Working on my template to transfer what I want to keep from this template (images etc) and adding a favicon image. I want the new blog to be recognizable as being mine although I am not sure about keeping the notebook spiral affect?
• Adding the correct categories/tags to 249 posts (I am tempted to delete some I am not happy with!)
• Deleting the old ‘in post’ tags that point to this blog via a Google Blog search (the work around mentioned above).

• Fiddling with my WordPress template until I am happier with it.
• Pointing multitudes of Social Networking sites to the new location.
• Have a break to celebrate Christmas and talk to my family who have lost me to WordPress for weeks.
• Adding the necessary plug-ins. I must remember the word ‘necessary’ here. If I am true to form I will instead trial lots and lots of them and then delete those I am not happy with and non vital ones that cause the page to load too slowly.
• Google stuff – although I am a bit teed off with the big G for downgrading pagerank on some of my favorite blogs. Anyone not understand the phrase teed off – not sure if its only a UK/Aussie expression?

• Creating and adding a Google Site Map to my site (where else would I add it!)
• Adding the blog to my Google Analytics Account so that it tracks stats.
• Setting it up to use Google Webmaster Tools.

Of course I do not really expect this to take anywhere near as long. A week or two is enough surely!