{"id":103,"date":"2006-08-11T01:43:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T05:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/from-blogger-to-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:38:15","slug":"from-blogger-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/from-blogger-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blogger to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just moved my blog from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\">Blogger<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore. WordPress is better because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the content management system actually resides on the same server as the blog site. When Blogger.com was down, it seemed so stupid to me, that I couldn&#8217;t publish content to my own website, which was running fine, because I had to post via a third party. Now, if I edit anything, I don&#8217;t have to &#8220;republish.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>catagories. If someone reads my blog for Firefox tips, they may not want to read about Thunderbird tips, or my musical interests (or my gripes about content management systems \ud83d\ude42 )<\/li>\n<li>adding a comment is one meeeellion times more user friendly.<\/li>\n<li>I have greater control over my web feed. In WordPress the <acronym title=\"Uniform Resource Locator\">URL<\/acronym>s of my previous blog posts are slightly different. Most feed aggregators would treat them as new posts (flooding <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.mozilla.org\/\">Planet Mozilla<\/a> with my previous posts); so I can limit the number of posts in my feed, not to include posts made on Blogger.<\/li>\n<li>tied into the above, I can import posts\/comments from other blog management systems.<\/li>\n<li>like Mozilla&#8217;s extension capabilities, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/\">WordPress plugins<\/a> available to extend the functionality of WordPress. Case in point, I&#8217;ve always liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\">Livejournal<\/a>&#8216;s feature that allows you to mention what music you are listening to, while posting. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/codingallhours.co.uk\/category\/mymoomus\/\">wordpress plugin<\/a>, that allows me to do that in WordPress.<\/li>\n<li>I can add <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/themes\/\">themes<\/a> from third party websites. I haven&#8217;t decided which one I&#8217;m going to stick with yet (and I&#8217;ll probably tweak it); but it&#8217;s nice to be able to find third party themes. (like a <a href=\"http:\/\/themes.wordpress.net\/columns\/2-columns\/192\/firefox-10\/\">Firefox theme<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ve just graduated from blog kindergarten; that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress. I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore. WordPress is better because: the content management system actually resides on the same server as the blog site. When Blogger.com was down, it seemed so stupid&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2006\/08\/from-blogger-to-wordpress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iliasca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}