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Google has announced that as of May 1st, they will no longer support FTP publishing for Blogger. I've been using Blogger since around 2000 (when they were just an indie company working with this new format called blogging), and I'm sad to see this critical feature yanked. It's a numbers thing—FTP publishers (those of us who publish our blog to our own server and domain name) comprise .5% of Blogger's user base yet require a disproportionate amount of tech support—but it's a shame nonetheless.
So, after I handle transferring my clients' sites to a different CMS, I'll be trying to get this sucker moved elsewhere. Probably Wordpress, which I've been wanting to use for the Library for years now but have never gotten around to actually mastering.
All this means is that there may some growing pains as I shift the site over. I need to rebuild the skeleton in Wordpress, import hundreds of posts, then handle the formatting issues that are bound to occur. It may look a little ugly, a little dusty, as I do the conversion so please bear with me. And if you have any advice for the switch, please share!
So, after I handle transferring my clients' sites to a different CMS, I'll be trying to get this sucker moved elsewhere. Probably Wordpress, which I've been wanting to use for the Library for years now but have never gotten around to actually mastering.
All this means is that there may some growing pains as I shift the site over. I need to rebuild the skeleton in Wordpress, import hundreds of posts, then handle the formatting issues that are bound to occur. It may look a little ugly, a little dusty, as I do the conversion so please bear with me. And if you have any advice for the switch, please share!
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2 responses:
I feel your pain. The ALR blog is also powered by Blogger FTP publishing! Definitely share what you end up doing.
Will do. I'm going to start by trying to skin out a Wordpress template - they have an "import" feature that lets you move your Blogger posts into WP, but I believe it strips out all the formatting. Which means a whole lot of unformatted posts to go over! So I may do that and just start without an archive, then over time work on formatting old posts and pushing them live as I go.
There may some kind of WP plug-in that allows you to preserve formatting, but I have to do some digging.
—J
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