WordPress is the way to go!
I’ve been planning this for quite a while – switch this blog to WordPress. Finally got to it this weekend. As I post this first one from WordPress, I can tell you, it feels great so far!
How to transfer all my old Blogger posts to WordPress? That was the only hold-up. A quick search on Google pointed me to WordPress Blogger Importer wiki. Followed the wiki entry step-by-step and all my old posts were in the WordPress database with fair amount of ease. There was one glitch though, for some reason, I had to move around some code to get the importer to work. Anyway, a little categorization later, I had the old Blogger posts all transfered to what you are seeing now!
Default WordPress theme looks pretty good to start with. I may end up using a readily available theme in the short run – may be create my own theme later. But for now this is it!
Until next time…
Mahesh.
Another note about Blogger import:
When I republished archive from Blogger into WordPress area, it created directories like
/2005/04/,/2004/10/, etc.(Possibly) since my permalink structure is /year/monthnum/ this caused some “Forbidden” errors accessing WordPress archives.
If you import your blog from Blogger to WordPress, make sure you remove any directories created by Blogger-publish … after the import is successful!
Later…