In this addendum to the Preparing to Move to WordPress series, I show you how to bypass the Blogger redirect menu. You recall the menu is basically a warning that readers are being redirected to your WP host and forces them to say ‘yes’ they want to continue. Not only does it look scary but it takes extra time since readers msut click again!
So what you really want is for Blogger to use the old url and go directly to the correct post in WP. Well, the only way to do that is with special software (plugin) since Blogger is not that cooperative when you abandon blogspot!
Is your sidebar taking the spotlight from your blog’s content? Well don’t stand for it! Use these tricks to organize your widgets for a cleaner design. This tip shows you how to save space by using tables to put your icon ducks in a row.
Okay, you’ve finally moved from Blogger to WordPress.
No need to look back. Just learn how to keep your readers, and of course those valuable search engine hits you worked so hard for while on Blogger!
Let’s see the videos that recorded how one blog owner did just that by properly redirecting traffic.
Okay, you’ve outgrown Blogger and finally decided to ‘move on up’ to WordPress.
Sure you love Blogger, after all that’s where you honed blogging skills and built a great community (for free). But the land of WP is so exciting, you can’t wait.
Let’s discuss how you pack your valuables and setup your new blog house without losing readers or doing too much heavy lifting!
This post is a screencast on how to install a plugin, using “Page Links To” as an example. This video is part of our series about WordPress plugins the make blogging easier. The plugin by Mark Jaquith “allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of [...]
I’ve wanted to write this post for some time now. I see many bloggers with free themes that don’t have a basic or easily customized menu bar. Well, the menu is key to letting readers find their way to your important content. It was a post by Timethief that triggered my article. She said: For [...]
Okay, the WordPress developers are in no way interested in making it easy for you to create custom text widgets! They assume you’re very happy to have theme developers provide those nifty widgets where we just indicate the number of comments to show, etc. How is that? Well, there is no “Visual” mode in text [...]