SoDevious.Net » wp http://sodevious.net Design and Resource Blog Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WordPress to Blogger: How I Did It And Kept Everything In Working Order (As Well As My Sanity) http://sodevious.net/wordpress-blogger-working-order-as-sanity/ http://sodevious.net/wordpress-blogger-working-order-as-sanity/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:36:30 +0000 Nicole Dominguez http://sodevious.net/?p=2559 So, as a blogger at heart, I’ve been dabbling in personal blogging. I’ve experimented with different WP setups and domains, and was never really happy. I decided to give blogger a go, and I really enjoyed it. I love WordPress, but there’s no problem being versatile! A lot of the personal blogs I follow are on blogger, so why not?

My domain and site transitions began with TheLovelyCurves.Com, but then I bought BeautieNerd.Com. I had all of my stuff there, but it seemed too impersonal, so I moved everything to nicoleisms.net (on blogger), a domain I bought a while ago.

 

Move your posts

Now, I think there is a way to export WordPress posts into a Blogger blog. The way I imagine it would be done is: In WordPress, go to Tools > Export. Then, use this app to make the export file usable on Blogger.  Then, go into your Blogger dashboard and under Settings > Basics press ‘Import Blog’. That should be it!

I only had a few posts I wanted to move over, so I did that manually.

ProTip: Windows Live Writer is great for writing blogger posts!

 

Custom Domains

If you’re going to be moving all of your posts over, all you have to do is set up your custom domain with blogger. Here are a few tutorials I used.

How do I use a custom domain name for my blog?

Custom domains simplified

 

WWW. and Naked Domains

Now, this process will only make your blog with with www. (www.yourblog.com)  not just the naked domain, like yourblog.com. To fix this, forward your naked domain to the www. domain. In GoDaddy, it’s quite simple. In the domain maganger, find your blog and forward it to the www. address. Here’s mine:
Make sure Blogger knows that you want your naked domain pointing to your www. domain.

Just wait a few, and your domain should work! If it doesn’t, revert back to the you.blogger.com and redo the addition of the custom blog.

 

What about my old domain?

To avoid losing my links, I wanted my old domain to forward to my new one. I thought it would be as easy as going into GoDaddy and forwarding it, but it wasn’t. If you do that, then your posts will get 404′s. Let me explain. If I have a post like this: oldomain.com/some-post, and I want to to forward to www.newdomain.com, GoDaddy will send it to www.newdomain.com/some-post, but some-post doesn’t exist! How do we fix this?

If your blog is small, there is hope! This is what I did: I made sure my old blog worked, and went into my old WP admin. I added a plugin named Page Links To. For the few posts thatI did move over, I copied that URL into the little blox that the plugin made.

So, now oldomain.com/copied-post will forward to www.newdomain.com/copied-post.

Any post that I didn’t copy over, I just wrote my new domain in the URL box. So, oldomain.com/non-copied-post will forward to www.newdomain.com!

To finish it off, I went into Settings > Reading and changed my front page display to a new page I made, entitled ‘Home’. Guess what I’m putting in the URL box?

This leaves us with a SEO friendly forwarding of an old domain to a new one, and the WP-admin is still accessible! Yay! I did all this over the course of a few frustrating hours, but it all worked in the end.

If you have any questions, or I forgot something, let me know!

]]> http://sodevious.net/wordpress-blogger-working-order-as-sanity/feed/ 0 Are You Missing Out By Not Using WordPress? http://sodevious.net/are-you-missing-out-by-not-using-wordpress/ http://sodevious.net/are-you-missing-out-by-not-using-wordpress/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:56:10 +0000 Nicole Dominguez http://sodevious.net/?p=2254 WordPress. If you have even step foot in the realm of blogging, then you’re sure to have heard of it. This little machine composed of gears ran by PHP power more than 25 million of the worlds blogs. Not only is WordPress as itself robust, there are millions of themes and plugins to make your blog as unique as a fingerprint. It is shown through WordPress meetups and WordCamps that occur all around the world on an ongoing basis and community support is strong and growing day by day. At least for my blogs and websites, WordPress is always the way to go.

I was recently reading an article (I like to read on my kindle, there is a chrome extension that lets me send posts to my kindle for reading. The computer screen just doesn’t do it. This is another one of the reasons that I prefer chrome to firefox.) that mentioned using GoDaddy as a blogging system. What? GoDaddy? I had to read it over to make sure I wasn’t missing something. I guess I can’t blame them – GoDaddy can be very convincing to unsuspecting folk. In my opinion, the only thing worth using them for would be domain registration. Actually, I prefer GoDaddy for domains than anyone else. But other than that, I’d avoid it like the plague for web hosting and such.
 

I guess people out there are intimidated by such a powerful machine. Perhaps others use other CMS’s that they like more. Whatever the reason may be, the question here is, can you – or anyone, miss out on the great things WordPress has to offer by not using it?
 

Let us know what you think – I’d love to hear your opinion.

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Some Advantages:

  • Can be installed in any subdomain or domain
  • Multitude of Fantastic Plugins
  • 1-2-3 Theme and Plugin Install
  • Its Totally Free!
  • User Friendly
  • Easy to Template
  • Can be used as a CMS to make a static site
  • Posts + Pages

    • …And plenty more. WordPress proves to be flexible and easy to work with, wherever your a serious n00b or a PHP Expert. So if your looking for an easy and great software for your blog, WP is one great way to go!

    What’s your favorite CMS/Blogging Engine? Do you use WordPress?

    ]]>     http://sodevious.net/benefits-wordpress/feed/ 4     Why Teens should attend Seminars and Events http://sodevious.net/why-teens-should-attend-seminars-and-events/ http://sodevious.net/why-teens-should-attend-seminars-and-events/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:29:52 +0000 Nicole Dominguez http://sodevious.net/?p=364 I jus found MeetUp, and I think its great to find some kind of event to attend!

    As a teenager, you’d probably be thinking to yourself, why should I attend X, as a teen? Well, if you are somebody with a passion/interest/business in that field then maybe you should.

    There are events for any and everything you have interests for. In order to network yourself successfully, you should try to attend some type of profesional event that deals with something you can relate to.

    For instance, I am going to be attending WordCamp Miami 2010 in a few weeks. Why you ask? I really have a passion for web design and development; and this will be something I am going to peruse in the future. At an event like this, I can network myself and show older designers and developers what a teen can really do. (Not to mention that an event dedicated to WordPress is something I would attend for fun as well) I have never properly networked myself. But an opportunity like this is amazing to meet new people.

    Why Would you Want to Network?

    Meeting people can do so much for your online [and offline] presence; for example, lets say you had a small craft business, and you attend (or even had set up a booth to ell) a local crafting event. Fellow (befriended) crafters would mention you in their websites/tweets, or you could even meet a store owner willing to display and sell your products. Even one mention in a large blog could boost web traffic and/or sales tremendously.

    Wherever you go, Think Big

    Attending local events like these can be fun, but dont forget to take advantage of the situation. Design some business cards, and hand them out as you meet potential friends, clients, or employers.

    What Kind of Events Should I Attend?

    A lot of local events aren’t expensive to go to; for example the WordCamp Miami I mentioned earlier was only $30 per ticket. That may sound like a lot, but when broken down, it’s really not.

    • Free Lunch
    • Free Tee
    • Swag Bag
    • Hours of soaking up advice from spakers
    • Networking Opportunities
    • FUN! :D

    Do some research in your area, and see if there are any events you could go to!

    Last minute advice; attend an event that pertains to something you love. For example, if you like Photography, but really have a passion for painting, don’t attend something related to Photography, spend the effort into going to an art exhibit or event. You’ll meet people that can relate to you, and be further inspired to pursue your goals and dreams.

    PLEASE NOTE: Don’t go to an event or meet up by yourself. Make sure you go with a buddy, or PARENT, as it isn’t safe to be vulnerable and alone at an event or meetup.

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    If you’ve got a wordpress blog, chances are you’re frequently on the lookout for great themes. I’ve compiled the monster of all monsters just for you! I’ll keep this page updated as well. If you’d like to suggest a link or two, be free to comment the suggestion, I’ll add it in the post.

    General

    40 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Six Revisions

    100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Smashing Magazine
    Older, but provides a lot of great themes.

    41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes | HongKiat

    31 Rare WordPress Themes | TutZone
    I must agree, quite rare, but a great resource.

    55 Free and beautiful WordPress themes | OpenSourceHunter

    16 Free Premium WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck | HongKiat
    Seriously. Don’t. Suck.

    100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009 | Smashing Magazine
    Nice view on the different kinds of themes out there, great post.

    34 Excellent Fresh Free WordPress Themes | The Design Mag

    49 Most Downloaded WordPress Themes | Hongkiat

    50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes | Six Revisions

    Top 50 free WordPress themes | Crazy Leaf

    35 Creative and Colorful WordPress Themes | Tutorial 9

    Magazine

    25 Free Best Magazine WordPress Themes | Living Digital
    I found a lot of interesting themes here.

    50+ Excellent Free Magazine WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen | Skidzopedia

    20 Of The Best Free Magazine WordPress Themes | Pingable

    15 Free Professional Magazine WordPress Themes | WPCrowd

    Photo Gallery/Portfolio

    24 Free Portfolio And Photo Gallery WordPress Themes | 1stwebdesigner
    Nice selection of themes here; saw some I’ve never seen before.

    45+ Magnificent WordPress Portfolio Themes | TripWire Magazine
    Good contrast of ‘Free’ and ‘Premium’ themes!

    15 Portfolio Themes for WordPress | DesignM.ag

    Freemium

    150 Free Premium Quality WordPress Themes to Welcome 2010 | Living Digital

    25+ High-Quality Premium as Free WordPress Themes | DZine Press
    Nice little collection of the more popular themes I’ve seen.

    15 High Quality Free Premium WordPress 2.7 Themes | Noupe

    Minimalist

    60+ Free Clean, Simple Minimalist WordPress Themes | TripWire Magazine

    40 Black & White Minimalistic WordPress Themes | Webitect

    10 Minimalist WordPress Themes You’ll Love | Thou Shall Blog

    Specialty

    20 Free Corporate WordPress Themes | Blogsessive

    18 Adsense Optimized WordPress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings | Dosh Dosh

    17 Specialty WordPress Themes | Vandelay Design

    15 Interesting Free Themes for your WordPress Blog | Reencoded

     

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