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Migrated to Wordpress 2.1 Ella
As you can see, this blog has a new look. I have finally ported all my blog posts from Blogger to Wordpress.
For my new readers, here’s how the old layout look like.
Time to Move On to Wordpress
This is probably the last post for 2006. Also, the last time I use Blogger to publish to this blog.
For Better SEO Friendly Purpose
There are many reasons for me wanting to migrate to Wordpress - 2 important reasons being the enhanced SEO friendliness and Trackback function.
Also, Wordpress is more powerful. There are many plugins available to extend the functionalities. I could also save some time whenever I tweak the template because there is no need to regenerate all the pages and upload to my server again and again.
However, the move is not easy. I have been losing sleep for the past 2 nights trying to customize Wordpress theme or template for TIMMGuru.com. I want to use the existing design and layout. And it was not easy to convert the template. The Wordpress theme is far more complicated than Blogger’s template. I have to search the documentation and learn the right commands and tags. I find the Conditional Tags necessary to customize the sidebar. As you can see, the display of this sidebar is different on the main page, individual post page and archive page. So I’ll need to do some progaming logic to control what appears on which page.
The basic type of pages for Wordpress are the
- Main Index Page (MainPage in Blogger.com)
- Single Page (ItemPage in Blogger.com)
- Category Page
- Archive Page
- Search Page
- and others
You can control what to appear in each of these pages! Now, flexibility comes with complexity!
Why Google Didn’t Like This Blog
The complete subject line should be…
Why Google didn’t like this blog As Much As Yahoo Does?
I suspect that I’ve added a thing in this blog that Google didn’t like. That is the Archive List.