The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition #1

The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition is now online.

All I did was run a script from the WordPress Dashboard - Import. It was predictable, and simple.

Indicate Blogger as my blog host.
Backup settings in blogs being imported.
Log out of Blogger, from the Dashboard.
Log in to Blogger, thru the Import script.
Select the blog to be imported, from my Blogger blog list.
Watch and pray.
This blog is not terribly large, just a few pictures (no, actually just 1), and maybe 50 posts. It took a good 5 minutes, with a nice console type display showing what was going on.
The Import script finished, and that was that.

Having finished, I now have a blog in WordPress. That being said, it's just a blog.

Look at this blog, almost every post contains a link to another post. This is not a blog. I don't write blogs, I write hypertext documents, using a blog framework. The concept of hypertext uses articles linked to each other, as the web itself is constructed.

All of the links in The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition, to other articles in The Real Blogger Status, point back to this blog, The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition.

As a pure blog, this website is practically useless. As a mirror to The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition, The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition is practically useless. All of the links in the latter point back here.

When there's a Blogger outage, telling folks to refer to The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition will be a waste of time.
None of my sidebar content was imported. None of the links to my important articles, nor to my other blogs, or friends blogs, was imported.
None of my tracking links - neither Performancing, SiteMeter, nor StatCounter - were imported.

All in all, a brief and disappointing exercise. It's pretty - check it out. But there's lots more to be done, before The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition can be seen as a mirror to The Real Blogger Status / Blogger Edition.

See The Real Blogger Status / WordPress Edition #2 for the continuing experience.

Add A Custom Redirect, If You Change A Post URL

When you rename a blog, the most that you can do, to keep the old URL useful, is to setup a stub post , with a clickable link to the new URL. Yo! The blog is now at xxxxxxx.blogspot.com!! Blogger forbids gateway blogs, and similar blog to blog redirections . When you rename a post, you can setup a custom redirect - and automatically redirect your readers to the post, under its new URL. You should take advantage of this option, if you change a post URL.

Referer Spam Is Annoying - And, It's Persistent

Recently, we've seen a few blog owners who are curious about odd trends in their Stats displays. My numbers seem to go up steadily for a while, then drop. Then, they go up again, for a while, then drop again. Rises and falls in traffic are normal. You'll never have the same number of people, viewing your blog, constantly. During some days and some hours, our readers are going to be elsewhere, and not viewing our blogs.

Jump Break Is Visible Only In An Index Page

Some blog owners are unsure what a Jump Break looks like, when applied to their blogs. Occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , we see the confusion. Where's the Jump Break? or I added a Jump Break to several posts, but it never shows up! When asked for a screen print of what they're seeing, they may provide a image of the post, in the Post Editor Preview window - or possibly, the published post, but in post page view.

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