Well, its been 8 months and as soon as I set up my blogger site, I wanted to move to wordpress. I finally made the move last week. I have to say, that I am having a few struggles with moving comments, but all and all it was worth it.
Every time I joined a blogging group, they were on wordpress and I felt like I was behind the game. I think if you are just blogging as a hobby, blogger is fine. That’s how my blog started. But as time went on, I realized eventually I plan on monetizing it. Blogger doesn’t allow that, and I hear they can close down your site.
So I made the move, and been a little behind on my blogging. I also took a great course from Melissa Culbertson from Momcomm. Its called Content Brew. I suggest you sign up for it, if you are a blogger. She gives you 7 days of content to help you get organized.
I am learning about all the plug in’s for wordpress. I really liked this article that gives you 19 essential plugins from Problogger.net. I am not sure what my favorite one is yet, I am going through the list and adding them. It’s taking me a little longer since I am not as tech savvy as I would like to be.
Another blog that I like that gives me lots of information on social networks is NighLon. Cari is doing a series right now called Blogging from A – Z.
So I am really excited to start working with wordpress more, and recommend it to anyone that plans great things for their blog.
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Thank you so much Candi! I love writing NighLon, and I am so glad that you benefit from it. I'm also glad that you made the move, I know it was kind of stressful, but I am so glad you are pleased with your decision. My favorite plugin would have to be GASP- it is a spam prevention plugin that is super simple it hides a check box so that spam bots will fill it in. A person will not see the box, so their comment is not spam! Pure genius! Once again, thank you for the link! You rock!
I have never heard of gasp. Thanks I will look it up.
I've been thinking of using WordPress.org. It sounds hard to set up, though. Not really?
It looks terrific! And Nighlon is awesome as well! I totally agree with Cari, I love GASP as well. Enjoy your new home 🙂
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I will have to check out gasp, I haven't heard of it before.
Congrats on the new move. I love comment luv the best … though I must say, I'm still learning about all the plug-ins and widgets (and all with Cari's help). Glad to see you back up.
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Do you have the premium version or the free one. I am thinking of making the change to the premium one.
What is the difference in the two? I have free Comment luv.
Me too. I just know it offers more.
Congrats on the move. It's kind of confusing at first but if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask =) I finally went self hosted myself!
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Thanks for the shout out! Congrats on switching over to WP! I'm sure you'll be happy with the flexibility of it all once you get used to it!
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Glad your move to WP went smoothly! I moved over about a year ago. I think the learning curve is different BUT its what all the "professional" bloggers use 🙂
My favorite plugin has been Thank You Later. It sends out an email to first time readers who comment
Oh, I will check it out.
Welcome to WordPress!! I am sure you will be thrilled with it the more and more you get used to it!
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Thanks for the post. I will definitely return.