Moved to WordPress from Blogger: Why and How
Posted by tata on Tuesday Aug 26, 2008 Under TutorialsI knew there was something bugging me about Blogger, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I came across BlogBloke’s post about comments at Blogger sucking. They do suck! Why? They are a pain to access unless the blog owner has hacked the code for inline comments, they are still difficult unless one has an account with Google at Blogger or an OpenID and for all that trouble, there is still no link love! Plus, WordPress has Gravatars, which are the funk! I had been leaving comments all about the web for months without realizing the joy of Gravatars. Go realize the love!
So here is how I did it. Thanks to BlogBloke’s experience making the move himself to get me through it!
I’m not quite prepared yet to spend a monthly fee on hosting (remember Husband’s job sitch?!), but I was able to find powerful free hosting with 000webhost.com. Here’s what they give you:
- 250 MBs of Disk Space
- 100 GBs of Data Transfer
- PHP with MySQL Database Support
In other words, all you need for a small-time blog like mine! They even feature Fantastico De Luxe 1-Click Auto-Installer, but I was a nincompoop and did it the hard way.
Setting up your blog (the hard way like I did) is not quite as simple as it is with Blogger (despite what WP lovers everywhere might tell you!), but it’s a lot of fun if you like coding and tinkering to get things just so.
