{"id":124,"date":"2010-05-31T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:25:39","slug":"post-migration-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Post Migration – First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The migration from Blogger to WordPress is now complete.\u00a0 This was necessitated by the fact that Blogger was deprecating FTP publishing.\u00a0 I tried the migration tool but didn’t like the way I would have to publish my blog on a sub-domain.\u00a0 I decided to bite the bullet and switch to WordPress.\u00a0 I use cPanel on this domain and installing WordPress was a snap using Fantastico.\u00a0 The hard part (for a little while) was getting my old posts on to WordPress.\u00a0 I had to eventually resort to exporting a backup of my blog from blogger and then used an online tool<\/a> to convert the file to a WordPress file that I could then import.<\/p>\n

The WordPress dashboard is very intuitive and incredibly easy to use.\u00a0 I was able to download themes, set my parameters, and configure my settings with ease.\u00a0 The (free) WordPress\u00a0 themes have a crisp and professional look and feel that I certainly found lacking in blogger.\u00a0 I am a HUGE Google fan but my First Impressions of WordPress as a publishing tool have me hooked.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to get back to blogging regularly and I think having easy convenient software such as WordPress certainly makes it more enticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The migration from Blogger to WordPress is now complete.\u00a0 This was necessitated by the fact that Blogger was deprecating FTP publishing.\u00a0 I tried the migration tool but didn’t like the way I would have to publish my blog on a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}