Facebook — I don’t like you even with a new profile page

December 7, 2010

For those who missed it, I hate Facebook — that is right HATE.  And this weekend they rolled out a new Facebook Profile (link to CNN article) — great, make it even more confusing for those of us who find it hard to use, navigate, and understand. Now I do get Facebook as a great [...]

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Highlight Current Page Only in Meall Dubh’s Fold Page Menu Widget

December 4, 2010

I have always loved Meall Dubh’s Fold Page Menu Plug-in.  For many complex projects, it is a great way to keep menu’s fairly well controlled.  Even better, he has now made it into a Fold Page Menu Widget. I can also confirm that it works fine through WP version 3.0.2 that was recently released.  Unfortunately [...]

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Saving Files to Local Folders – how to create a custom save as dialog

November 29, 2010

I move a lot of data for customers in any given week.  We move blogs from all manner of current platforms including lately a lot of hubspot and blogger traffic, but also custom platforms and cms (content management systems).  Sometimes it is a static site that is moving to wordpress.  Sometimes it is comments from [...]

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BlogWrangler Display Ads

November 24, 2010

First set of BlogWrangler Ads out of the Hopper Round Two Round Three Now we need to get the copy sizzling. We Move Blogs to WordPress We move you to WordPress Want to move to WordPress? Corralling sites into WordPress Over 15,000 posts moved Moving Blogs Since 2009 WordPress Move-In Specialists Move MovableType to WordPress [...]

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Happy Wife, Happy Life

October 11, 2010

But when it comes to our duties here at blogwranglers – blog migration – we think of our customers as our wife in some respects, we want you to be happy. Over the weekend we helped a couple of customers with their blog migrations. One, Brett Kelly wrote a nice article about his experience with [...]

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Export Disqus comments and Import Comments into WordPress

October 4, 2010

Disqus has some distinct advantages, but also is undergoing explosive growth. Some people are simply not happy staying with Disqus and need to move comments from Disqus to WordPress. We recently completed a project to move Disqus comments as part of a blog migration to WordPress. If you need help moving your Disqus comments to [...]

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Move My Blog! How We Size Up Your Blog Migration.

September 28, 2010

Please share some information about your website or blog migration. What is moving? What is the URL that you want to move? Are we moving the blog, website or both? How much content is there to move? (Numbers are required, not descriptions like “not many”. Thanks.) How many pages? How many blog posts? How many [...]

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Search terms for moving your blog?

August 17, 2010

My partner and I often discuss what we should be doing to make sure that you know that we can help you move your blog. Our “preferred” or emphasized term from day one has been “migrate” or “migration”. Is that really the term you will be looking for when you decide to pull the plug [...]

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Quickly Setup a Custom Domain on Blogger Blogspot

August 15, 2010

You can easily setup a custom domain name on Blogspot or Blogger. By default all blogs are hosted at blogname.blogspot.com. This is the default standard.  You can actually select a different available sub-domain name, if you like. Here is how. Choosing an available sub-domain Click on the Settings Tab Click on the Publishing Tab You [...]

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Stuck in Blogger? Move to WordPress the Easy Way

August 15, 2010

A recent client had her blog, thefatandskinnyonfashion.com, well developed in Blogger, including thousands of categories and tags. She was even using a custom domain name (see how you can setup a custom domain name for your blogspot or blogger blog). She asked us to move her very active blog from Blogger to WordPress for a [...]

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