You have decided to export your data and move your website or blog. WordPress is a great platform to migrate into whether you are moving from HubSpot, Typepad, Blogger or Drupal. Which project scope is right for you? Random Before and After Blog Migration Considerations RSS – There are platforms that do not offer the ability […]
Move Your Blog or Website – Three Design Considerations
It’s time to move your website or blog from HubSpot, Drupal, TypePad, Blogger or Tumblr to WordPress. Three Ways to Move 1) Just export the data – posts, comments, pages, categories, tags, images, videos, meta data etc. Some projects need just the data moved from one platform to another. For example, the client may have already started creating […]
The Longest URL I Have Ever Seen
When moving websites and blogs from HubSpot to WordPress we find great code and pretty poor code. When we run into the pretty poor code during a migration we always make the necessary corrections as part of the move after consulting with the client. In this HubSpot example an image URL is waaaaaaaaaay too long. […]
Battle of the Free Mobile Blogging Apps
One of the most important aspects of maintaining a blog is to post updates as often as possible. By getting valuable information posted before other blogs, a blogger will have a better chance of attracting and retaining an audience than the competition. However, some bloggers are not always near a computer, such as at an […]
Google Search Results for Blogsmith Disappoint
Blogsmith hit my project radar recently so I started doing some elementary research on the platform. A search in Google for “Blogsmith” took me off on a tangent and revealed how imperfect Google search results are. Here is what I found in the first 10 search results and beyond. Result #1 If you visit http://www.blogsmith.com/ you […]
WordPress Celebrates 8 Years of Goodness
Blog Wranglers sends out a big thank you to Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress core team, the folks at Automattic, the ever-expanding eco-system of WordPress developers/programmers/designers and the many site owners that take advantage of the most useful publishing platform on the planet. It has taken many people to get here and they all deserve a […]
RSS Subscriber Migration from HubSpot
Mark filled out the BlogWranglers contact form to ask about his HubSpot hosted company blog that he is moving to WordPress. He had completed moving his posts and email subscribers from HubSpot on his own. His question was about RSS. Really Simple Syndication is a great thing, but Mark could not figure out how to […]
WordPress Jetpack
Automattic, maker of WordPress, released Jetpack to rousing cheers across the globe. Free Plugin Matt Mullenweg was thrilled to bring services found only on WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress.org accounts. The first launch includes eight features that are installed by one simple plugin. And there are clearly more to come, as indicated by the blank squares […]
Flickr Will Not Exist Forever
I just read a great article. Doc Searles has concerns with Flickr. The fundamental concern in this case applies to Twitter, Facebook and many other private siloed networks that contain your data. In this case the two major concerns about Flicker are: Your account could be deleted permanently. An example was offered. Flickr may not […]
Tumblr to WordPress Blog Moves: Will 3.1 with Post Types (Formats) Turn Tumblr’s to WP?
One of the features that has been native in Tumblr for some time now is “post types”. An easy method of categorizing posts that results in them being displayed in an organized templated structure. Many have duplicated this in WordPress by using categories and then defining a theme specific to the special “post type” to […]