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.

Embedded Comments And Main Page View

The option to display comments, embedded below the post, was made a blog option relatively recently. This was a long requested feature - and many bloggers added it to their blogs, as soon as the option was presented to us. Some blog owners like this feature so much, that they request it to be visible when the blog is opened, in main page view. I would like all comments, and the comment form, to be shown underneath the relevant post, automatically, for everyone to read without clicking on the number of comments link. And this is not how embedded comments work.

What's The URL Of My Blog?

We see the plea for help, periodically I need the URL of my blog, so I can give it to my friends. Help! Who's buried in Grant's Tomb, after all? No Chuck, be polite. OK, OK. The title of this blog is "The Real Blogger Status", and the title of this post is "What's The URL Of My Blog?".

Where's The Dashboard?

We see this confusion, a couple times a week, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I? . Where is the dashboard? In the Classic Blogger GUI, the display which contained the "Blog List" (at the top), and the "Reading List" (at the bottom) was labeled "Dashboard". Many people also called the "Settings" / "Template" screens for the various blogs, linked from the Blog List, the dashboard. The New Blogger GUI has no page with the label - and no links "To The Dashboard". The Navbar (another unlabeled feature) has two links - "Design" and "New Post" - which lead to different dashboard sections, when you are appropriately logged in to Blogger . And, the "B" logo at the far left of the navbar will, similarly, take you to the Blog List / Reading List.

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