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Mike — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:53:21 -0000

Kathy - What sort of permalink problems are you experiencing? I tried to figure it out from your previous comments but got a little lost :( I'll see if I can help out.

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Blog Bloke — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:22:00 -0000

My tests also default to Wordpress.com so I recommend using OpenID for Blogger blogs.

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Kathy Frederick — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:04:00 -0000

Bloke, I can't use my WordPress login because I haven't set up delegation on my site, so that I can leave http://www.junkdrawerblog.com in the nickname field (or using the OpenID login). When I choose WordPress, it fails when I try to put my blog's address in the Blog Name field. (Incorrect OpenID url). Is that WordPress field referring only to wordpress.com users?

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blogbloke — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:51:00 -0000

Kathy, from an SEO perspective just using the /%postname%/ like I mentioned above is best. I'm still not sure what your concerns are over OpenID. All you need is to be logged into your Wordpress account like I've done here.

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Kathy Frederick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:00 -0000

Bloke -- Quick update. I was able to change my permalink structure in WordPress so that links no longer break. I used the custom structure, /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html. After I made this change, most of the posts began working again. Not sure why some didn't. I might have to manually modify their post slug or something. The important thing is most of them DID work, so I'm a happy camper today!

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Kathy Frederick — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:25:00 -0000

Bloke -- I think I should still worry about OpenID after moving to WordPress. Whenever I leave a link on a Blogger blog, I want it to point directly to my own blog, not my Google profile, right? I know I need to add code to my new WordPress template, so I can use my OpenID when leaving a comment on Blogger. Don't know how to do that.

Also, I'm afraid to mess with my link formats now. I'm afraid I'll screw something up since I've bothered to go back and change the format of each link within my blog. Not sure if I fully understand the problem and solution. I guess it's like this: I have many posts in my blog that contain links to other posts within my blog. When I migrated over, those internal links were still showing up as title-formatted. I had to change all of them to p=XXX formatted. But any post that's floating around with a title-format (BloggingZoom, StumbleUpon, etc) is broken. Is there a way to fix those, so they point to my new p=xxx formatted post? I'm sorry if I'm not making sense.

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Blog Bloke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:25:00 -0000

You are most welcome Debbie... Houston out.

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Debbie Dolphin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:34:00 -0000

Thank you, Bloke!

WordPress Mission Control reports New England Lighthouse Treasures has completely left the launching pad of Blogger with a slight course correction heading to the new Frontiers of WordPress!

PS. Now I understand why WordPress Bloggers are very frustrated with Google's OpenID! This is the second time I received a "Incorrect OpenID url" message after entering the Sign-in using WordPress and Blog Name: http://lighthousestars.com/. (And, this was tried both before and after signing into my OpenID account!)

I need to Sign-in to my old Blogger account to post my comment on any Blogger Blog.

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Blog Bloke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:19:00 -0000

You will have to make your .htaccess file writable by changing the file permissions in your CPanel. Read here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/...

Then make a custom permalinks like thus:

/%postname%/

Read more here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/...

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Debbie Dolphin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:03:00 -0000

Blog Bloke Mission Control, We have ignition!
New England Lighthouse Blog at Blogger

now redirects to

New England Lighthouse Treasures

at my domain: http://lighthousestars.com/

But I am not sure if I have total redirection lift off?

Unfortunately, changing my permalinks to /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.htm did not work.

http://www.clazh.com/move-f... never explained how to update your .htaccess now.

So, I restored the default setting to restore my post permalinks. And, now my Technorati tags point to http://nelighthouse.wordpre... not http://lighthousestars.com/

Is there a easy solution to point my Technorati tags back to my domain?

And, I am not sure Technorati tags are mission critical since they have not tagged my posts since September and have not responded to any of my eMails.

PS. Google does it again with OpenID failing after the switch to my new domain!

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Blog Bloke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:09:00 -0000

Kathy, I'm not sure if I would bother with OpenID on Wordpress. After all that was the reason for moving from Blogger in the first place.

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Blog Bloke — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:06:00 -0000

Kathy, check out this post about maintaining your links and google juice:

http://www.clazh.com/move-f...

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Kathy Frederick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:08:00 -0000

Oops. Sorry. Just realized my mistake with OpenID. In order to make my blog's URL my OpenID, I have to add code to my new WordPress template. When my URL worked before, it was because I was still with Blogger. D'oh!

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Kathy Frederick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:01:00 -0000

Unfortunately, I was unable to redirect my links properly. So anywhere my links are shown as junkdrawerblog.com\post title.html, they're broken. I have to live with it. Nothing I can do. I feel, in that regard, that I'm starting over. But I still don't have regrets about changing to WordPress, difficult as it was. I'm just so thrilled to be concentrating on my writing again!

My latest issue is with OpenID. I know I'm using the correct OpenID URL for my blog, but I'm getting a rejection whenever I try to use it on a Blogger blog, like right now. ARGGGHH!!!

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Debbie Dolphin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:14:00 -0000

Thank you, Bloke for the Bluefur.com tip!

WordPress is a Bloggers' Dream!

If everyone knew how much more reliable WordPress is, than Blogger would have never succeeded in the hearts and minds of Bloggers!

Can we hear an Amen, Google?

PS. has anyone found a good source explaining how to redirect links and traffic?

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Blog Bloke — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:08:00 -0000

Ah, I should have known better. It's simply a matter of changing the file permissions in the cPanel. You can read more about it here.

http://codex.wordpress.org/...

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Blog Bloke — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:47:00 -0000

ALL of my code is locked out. It must be an issue with BlueFur. I shall give them a call tomorrow.

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Debbie Dolphin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:34:00 -0000

I hope your Overwrite block is in the Header image?
If so, open the header.php file

Locate this line: -h1- -a href="-?php echo get_settings('home'); ?-"--?php bloginfo('name'); ?--/a--/h1-

which is the Home Link address of the Blog --- change the line to:

-h1--a href="-?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"--/a--/h1-

And, the line could be deleted as well... We left the address code in for reference in case I decide to change the Header image later and need to reuse the link address.

Note: I needed to change some code characters to trick Blogger into accepting the PHP code!

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We learned the hard way of changing the code from my hard drive and uploading the files. After considering adding some widgets, I decided that I can live without them for three reasons:

1. my Blog loads so fast without them compared to a random Blog that was bogged down by 7 widgets.

2. do we want readers to be distracted with so many widgets when they visited our blog to read our content?

3. Besides me, I received positive feedback about the Sapphire Theme and layout from some Blogging Buddies!

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Blog Bloke — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:29:00 -0000

Yeah, I'm really liking Wordpress too.

I've also notice the overwrite block on editing my code. How did you overcome it? I've been modifying the code on my hard drive and then uploading it.

By the way, widget-ready themes depend on the template, not BlueFur. Migrating directly to BlueFur will probably require a plugin for that. But your way will also work because Wordpress.com already has the plugin.

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Debbie Dolphin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:08:00 -0000

Header Image Link Overwrite solved with a lot of help from a friend... we found the needle in the haystack of Mike's code!

Thankfully, the Migration Mission was easily completed using these steps

1. Automatically Import Blogger to a WordPress.com Blog

2. Export WordPress.com to a xml file

3. Import xml file to WordPress at BlueFur

For reasons unknown, Blogger does not migrate directly to WordPress at BlueFur.

Hopefully, this tip will help new WordPress Patriots?

Still need to redirect all internal links and change Google Juice. With any luck, Blogger will be a history Blog next week?

Hopefully, my trial by fire will help others sail the sea of transition smoother.

I know after everything is setup, WordPress seems to be a Blogging Breeze to use when writing or editing posts!

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Debbie Dolphin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:55:00 -0000

For fun, my Blog has three locations! (at Blogger, WordPress.com, and at BlueFur.com) --- talk about backing up a blog!

For now, WordPress.com was made private until I can determine how to safely delete the blog so phishing p*rn sites are unable to use the link.

Missed the $10 special by $10...fortunately, both Bloke and Bluefur answered my concerns first before diving in.

I needed extra help to get the theme uploaded. There are some features that need to be changed in the theme's heading...hopefully, the theme author can help but....

At BlueFur.com, the Theme editor claims the style.css file is not writable therefore it can't be edited. Nor can I find the HTML file to edit anywhere. My goal is to remove the header link that over-writes the header image.

Another bizarre issue is my theme isn't widget-aware because there are no sidebars that can changed. Huh? If the right column with the Blogroll, archives, etc. isn't a sidebar than what is it?

Were you able to import your Blogger posts automatically?

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Blog Bloke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:39:00 -0000

Congratulations Kathy. I'm still tinkering with my new theme, but my impression is I think I'm gonna like Wordpress.