Good Bye Blogger, Hello Wordpress!

Friday, September 28th, 2007

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.

Update your RSS Feeds to http://blog.sigsiv.com/feed

Comments

19 Responses to “Good Bye Blogger, Hello Wordpress!”

richa on September 28th, 2007 7:12 pm

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
roopa on September 28th, 2007 7:40 pm

wow welcome sig glad to see the new look

Thanks
bhags on September 28th, 2007 9:09 pm

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
RP on September 28th, 2007 9:43 pm

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
sra on September 28th, 2007 11:56 pm

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…
Rachna on September 29th, 2007 12:53 am

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
Asha on September 29th, 2007 6:25 am

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.
Rina on September 29th, 2007 6:57 am

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…
coffee on September 29th, 2007 7:11 am

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….
Rajitha on September 29th, 2007 8:58 am

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
Sonia on September 29th, 2007 10:20 am

This layout looks good Have a great weekend.
-Sonia

Thanks Sonia, You too!
Padmaja on September 29th, 2007 11:03 am

Hey Sig!
It looks incredible and good luck yaar

Thanks Padmaja… Have a great weekend!
Mythili on September 29th, 2007 12:26 pm

Sig,
Welcome to the lighter side :P 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…
Suganya on September 29th, 2007 4:49 pm

Awesome Sig. Site looks chic, just like you

Wish I had a blushing smilie
Manisha on September 29th, 2007 5:39 pm

You made the move look seamless! Congrats!

It was not that bad, as you can see in my next pst
musy on September 29th, 2007 6:36 pm

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.

U are not late musie, glad you could join us… BTW, You will need to update your bloglines with my new RSS Feed URL…
sharmi on September 30th, 2007 7:46 pm

This looks nice. congrats on the move!
Amy on October 1st, 2007 1:45 pm

Oo it looks great! I’m thinking about moving over to Wordpress too someday, but I’m lazy.

Thanks Amy… The move is definitely not for lazy bums …
Good Title on October 11th, 2007 2:41 pm

Hi there, Very nice place you have here. You