[Web4lib] Category-centric blogs[Spam score: 8%]_

[David King]

I just went through that exact conversion - last week, I switched my
blog from a blogger account (daweed.blogspot.com) to my own, hosted site
(www.davidleeking.com). The new site is a Wordpress site.

The conversion was extremely easy! Wordpress has the conversion tools
built into the admin side. All it does is rearranges the blogger
template into a very basic date format list (march 2005, february 2005,
etc) and then copies everything. It keeps all content - titles, dates,
posts, comments, etc - intact.

No sweat at all. And then, you have the fun of adding categories to all
of your posts (250 posts, in my case). But well worth it.

David King
www.davidleeking.com

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of JB Bryant
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:44 AM
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You all have been extremely helpful. Thank you. Anyone out there who has
gone through the conversion of Blogger to WordPress? And advice or
lessons learned to share?

I have read an enjoyable post called "Blogger to Wordpress in 13
Not-so-Easy steps" at...
http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=70

...and found the Blogger to WordPress Import Utility at:
http://randypeterman.com/StatTraq/wp-admin/import-blogger.php.

Again, I haven't found the time to try these yet. 

jb


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kate Butler
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:25 AM
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It is possible to add categories to a Blogger blog, though it's not
something they support directly.
 
One way people have found is using del.ic.ious, though I'm sure there
are others.
http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/06/3-ways-to-use-delicious-for-catego
ries.html
 
Both Wordpress and MT do it built-in, though, so if you're not wed to
Blogger as a platform, in the long term, it's probably easier to move to
one of them.
 
Kate

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of JB Bryant
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Well, it could be that I simply haven't tried anything but Blogger. I
have installed WordPress on my web server but I have not delved into it.
I found some instructions for converting my Blogger blog to WordPress,
but haven't worked on it. This is my personal space, and I rarely get
time to do much with it. So, my question was probably just in ignorance.

All I want to do is require a category on Blog posts and then have the
entries categorized on the resultant web page. Blogger seems to be
chronology-centric. The entry form for Blogger doesn't give an
opportunity to require or even enter a category. Blog entries are
grouped by date only on the display. I thought that perhaps a different
template for Blogger could build this intelligence into it, but there's
no way to modify the blog entry form that I know of, just the display
template.

Thanks for the help. I'm sure I'll find WordPress to fit my needs.

jb


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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:02 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Category-centric blogs

> Does anyone have an experience with a blog (or blog template) that 
> arranges entries by category rather than by date? I currently use 
> Blogger for a couple of things, but I have some ideas I'd like to
create
> a blog for that wouldn't be date-specific, rather the organization
would
> better be represented by category.

I was trying to process this as well... Movable Type and Wordpress both
support categories; can you describe your project a little better and
maybe we can make some suggestions?

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com

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