Ravi’s Blog

Finally, I am off blogger for my blog publishing software. It’s such a relief. Now that i have done it, I feel like i should have done this a long time back. I have been fiddling with wordpress code for a while. In fact, I hacked up wordpressMU for a contest inside y!.

My biggest obstacle was transferring all the old posts to wordpress including comments. I did a search on yahoo for “importing comments from blogger to wordpress”. Result #3 is golden!
Skeltoac, put together a script for importing blogger listings along with comments into wordpress. His post includes a link to a illustrated tutorial as well. I followed the directions on skeltoac’s blog. Everything worked really smooth and i didn’t even have to look at the tutorial. In a few seconds, all the posts & comments are imported. Everything is good to go.
Thanks Skeltoac!

Next i worked on updating the UI from the default wordpress UI. Thanks to Nathan Arnold & Sam Tripodi - our super UED & Eng folks - I quickly ended up with this updated UI.
Thanks Nathan! Thanks Sam!

Next up, addressing the feeds. Now that I am off blogger, I can actually syndicate my feed into multiple formats. I also wanted to use feedburner for a while. So I set up all my feeds on feedburner. Life is good.

All I had to do now was spend few minutes fiddling with the re-write engine, redirecting the old URLs to the new ones. that’s it!

I love it!

I love it!

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