I’m very excited to announce my first course offering by Fabulous Blogging. Of all the things I do for clients, Blogger to WordPress migrations are by far and wide the most lucrative from a financial standpoint, and here’s why: The hosting company pays me a commission every time I sign someone up. I charge $169.00 […]
Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org (and the relationship too!)
Despite having written about this topic other times, it never fails — one of the most confusing aspects of WordPress is the relationship between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. People think they are the same, and don’t realize that once you have a WordPress.org blog, you still can have a relationship with WordPress.com. So today’s post is […]
Blogger Blogs are now Censored | Why it’s Time to Go to WordPress
Regardless of your stance on Internet censorship, the recent news that Google will ban any Blogger blog containing sexually explicit photos or videos reminds us all that blogs hosted on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress.com are not really ours. At any point, either one of these companies can ban, censor, take down, or eliminate […]
Moving a Blog Checklist
Getting ready to move to self-hosted WordPress? Congratulations! You’ll never look back. That said, moving a blog (whether from Blogspot or WordPress.com) can be stressful, even if you’ve hired someone to do it for you. I have several resources on this blog about moving, but here is a handy checklist to use as a reference! […]
How To Perform A Website Migration
So you have a client who wants to move their blog from Blogger to WordPress? You’ve done a bit of searching and there is a LOT of information out there about how to move… And a lot of it is in techno-speak that makes absolutely no sense. I’m going to attempt to explain it in […]
Where the Heck Do I Find Information about my Google apps custom url for Blogspot?
Please excuse this public service announcement if you are a WordPress user, but I have spent the last two hours tracking down how to deal with a custom domain on a Blogger blog when you are in the process of migrating to WordPress. Here’s how the story goes: Once upon a time, you started a […]