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We Took The WordPress Plunge

After many happy years at Blogger.com, we have made the big move and transfered everything into WordPress.

We have no bad feelings at all with Blogger. In fact, we still recommend it to many of our clients.

But we’ve been testing WordPress with some of our personal blogs and loved all of the features.

With the new blog be sure to keep an eye out for updated categories over there on the left. And we also plan on some video blogging as well.

So, there’s a lot of fun ahead. Feel free to drop a comment whenever the urge strikes.

Cheers!

Sage

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6 Responses to “We Took The WordPress Plunge”

  1. Joel Says:
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:44 pm

    Did you set-up a 301 redirect from the old Blogger version? If so, how intuitive was the process? Any insight would be appreciated.

  2. Sage Says:
    February 6th, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    Hi Joel,

    I moved the WordPress blog directly over this one. The url structure is different enough that I don’t think I could make a universal change.
    As an example, this url is this:
    http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/2006/02/06/we-took-the-wordpress-plunge
    The blogger url would be someithing like:
    http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/2006/we-took-the-wordpress.htm

    It cut off the name of the page at a certain point. So that was pretty random.

    But I’m going to watch my error logs on a daily basis and 301 them to the new page.
    The code for my .htaccess page will have an entry like this:
    redirect 301 /weblog/2006/we-took-the-wordpress.htm http://www.sagerock.com/weblog/2006/02/06/we-took-the-wordpress-plunge

    I’ll be able to redirect the important pages. Then I’ve got my custom 404 error page that will scoop up everybody else.

    That’s the plan, anyway. Let me know if I can help further.

  3. Anita Campbell Says:
    February 11th, 2006 at 3:16 pm

    Good move, Sage. I think you will like it.

    I did the same thing back in November (actually, I hired someone to make the transition for me, because I wanted it done right, not half-a**ed like I would have done it).

    I am extremely happy with WordPress. Like you, no bad feelings about Blogger. WordPress simply offers more of the features we have come to expect of business blogs these days.

    Best,
    Anita

  4. Randall Wilson Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 12:22 am

    Where did your blog get moved to on wordpress? I was unable to get your link.

    -Randy
    http://www.4mysales.com

  5. sage Says:
    February 14th, 2006 at 7:25 am

    Thanks for writing, Anita. I am really happy with the move. There are a lot of benefits that I’m finding with WordPress.
    Randall, I’m just using the WordPress tool. It’s hosted right here at sagerock.com/weblog

  6. doctor seo Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 1:04 am

    Anyone see this http://msdewey.com/

    Really interesting tool,but not to useful
    in the online world these days.

    But I guess some people might use it.
    could be msn website,but cannot say for sure.

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