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Good Bye Blogger, Hello Wordpress!

28 September 2007 19 Comments

I’m in the process of moving the blog over to WordPress. The site will be down for a few hours during the weekend. If everything goes well, we will be up and running by Saturday evening.

The URL for the new wordpress site will remain the same http://blog.sigsiv.com, but some permalinks will be broken. RSS feed links will probably need to be updated too.

Thanks for your patience, have a great weekend!

Update

It was much faster than I expected. I’m on wordpress now. If you see anything broken, please let me know.

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19 Comments »

richa said:

congrats sweetie!
so will i get to use some emoticons here
hope it works well for you!!

Thanks Richa… Oh yeah, emoticons… I should get a fresh batch… just another plus for wordpress

# 28 September 2007 at 7:12 pm

roopa said:

wow welcome sig glad to see the new look

Thanks

# 28 September 2007 at 7:40 pm

bhags said:

Thats nice to know….i would like to do that sometime

It wasn’t completely hassle free, but if you are planning to do it, I suggest doing this sooner than later, more stuff you have, more complicated it guess

# 28 September 2007 at 9:09 pm

RP said:

You too? I wanted to move too..but I am kind of emotionally attached to blogger which makes the move difficult for me.
All the best.

I know what you mean… I know how to do pretty much everything in blogger… but I hate those labels and indexing, that was the main reason behind the move, oh and I was bored

# 28 September 2007 at 9:43 pm

sra said:

Best of luck, Sig! Am planning to put up a back-up blog in Wordpress so may mail you later on how to go about the transition – I’ve tried but the pix gave me trouble.

Sure, mail me if you need help… It gets easier if you have the pics outside blogger… if all your pics are stored in blogger, it is going to be a toughie…

# 28 September 2007 at 11:56 pm

Rachna said:

Ive been thinking of moving for sucha long time…. its so easier to comment on wordpress…. and the whole look is neater too

Yep, I love the wordpress themes much better than blogger… and complete control is what I needed

# 29 September 2007 at 12:53 am

Asha said:

Is it better than blogger? I have a wordpress account too but don’t see any templates or anything!!!

Asha, it depends on how you are going to use it… If you are going for a wordpress hosted blog vs blogger hosted blog, I’d say blogger is easier, ie. if you have a .wordpress.com URL, you need to pay to make any stylesheet changes. But if you are hosting on your own server, you get complete control… in that case wordpress is much better… So, it ultimately depends on how much customization you need and if you are willing to pay for it … blogger is free, but there is afterall a limit to the customization.

# 29 September 2007 at 6:25 am

Rina said:

Hey sig, definitely WP has a neat look than blogger. I was planning to move one of my blogs too. But than we become so comfortable with blogger that the move seems to disturb that comfort. Let me know how it is going with WP. Was the move easy? I too have an account with WP, but couldn’t locate any templates. So just left it like that. Your suggestions will help. Thanks.

Hi Rina, as I replied to Asha’s comment, it really depends… if you are moving to a wordpress hosted blog, I still haven’t seen any benefits for the move… but then again, I’m not an expert there. I installed wordpress on my own web server, so I have complete control over it…. If you have a free wordpress hosted blog, you can update the templates under presentation tab…

# 29 September 2007 at 6:57 am

coffee said:

Wordpress is a better platform any day!! Good to know you are moving over.

Yep, I just need to get used to all the new stuff….

# 29 September 2007 at 7:11 am

Rajitha said:

i like wordpress..where u can ans right below every comment…but for a computer retard like me..who knows nothing but excel!! me shifting to anything and moving things around is a disaster!!

Yeah, in that case, stick to blogger… unless you have a pressing need

# 29 September 2007 at 8:58 am

Sonia said:

This layout looks good Have a great weekend.
-Sonia

Thanks Sonia, You too!

# 29 September 2007 at 10:20 am

Padmaja said:

Hey Sig!
It looks incredible and good luck yaar

Thanks Padmaja… Have a great weekend!

# 29 September 2007 at 11:03 am

Mythili said:

Sig,
Welcome to the lighter side I love wordpress!!! And this blog looks ravishing !!

Note: when i enter comments, your right sidebar appears at the bottom of this box… check it out

Thanks Myth… I was working on some template changes, so you might have dropped in during the changes… I can’t repro it, but if you see it again, do let me know…

# 29 September 2007 at 12:26 pm

Suganya said:

Awesome Sig. Site looks chic, just like you

Wish I had a blushing smilie

# 29 September 2007 at 4:49 pm

Manisha said:

You made the move look seamless! Congrats!

It was not that bad, as you can see in my next pst

# 29 September 2007 at 5:39 pm

musy said:

Where was i all this time! Bloglines didn’t show any updates

Congrats, sweetie! The new look is hot! I was just wondering how easy/difficult it is to host a blog on your own server, how much of time investment etc is required (you can see, i know zilch about it) any other logistics one needs to keep in mind.

PS: Sorry for being late to the party .

hugs,
musical.