>
> Yes, wordpress would be best, but I just don't know it. I know how easy
> blogger is.
>
No mal-intent. I was just saying options are out there and blogger is
definitely a gateway. I used it and I love that it is under the google
umbrella.

>
> Hey, Angel, if I change my long-running blogger blog over to wordpress, can
> I take my archives with me? Does wordpress allow stand-alone pages, eg
> archives of 'collected' poems?
>
ha, dunno. i'm going to say yes in theory; but no in practice. does blogger
have a premium service? i did the free version many moons ago and usually
free means you can't touch the code unless it's through their administration
tools and that's usually very limited. BUT, you certainly can export the db
files as an sql file or a csv and import it into a clean or existing
wordpress db (database) if you have access to the raw data. i haven't even
googled or looked elsewhere; but, it sounds like a common need and i'm sure
their are multiple solutions for integrating blog content from each platform
to the other. you could probably route the blogger rss feed directly into a
wordpress page. yes, on the stand alone pages. you could customize your own
'theme' or find an exiting theme that supports that. pretty much
wordpress hierarchy goes page, category, post, comment. comments belong to
posts (this can be turned on or off), posts belong to categories (this you
can customize to your sites relevance), categories appear on pages (their
are template pages that are standard and you can create custom pages that
behave the way you would like with a little know how.) The wordpress
community is healthy and the resources are abundant.

if i were going to look further into the blogger to wp I would google
"export blogger import wordpress" (variations of that). I'd also check the
plugins for wordpress I'm sure their is a one click solution for you very
good question...actually you got me curious:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

There it is. Good question, thanks for making me think.

Here's some resources I've found helpful:
http://perishablepress.com/press/category/wordpress
http://www.noupe.com/category/wordpress
http://codex.wordpress.org


> Andrew
>
> On 26 March 2010 09:02, Angel Robert Marquez <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > after you get your feet wet with blogger
> >
> > check out typepad <http://www.typepad.com/>
> >
> > then save the best for last
> >
> > wordpress <http://wordpress.org/>
> >
> > <http://wordpress.org/>buy me a sixer of that cheap beer you like, an
> > australian nudie mag (for artistic reasons), and write me my very own
> poem
> > and i'll totally hook you up.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > I must find out how to make a Blog thingy -- inflict myself upon avid
> > > (rabid?) readers P-unblogged
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> > > Sent: 25 March 2010 17:04
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Blogs
> > >
> > > Heah, after 7 years, I still enjoy making my blog - short snip or long
> > > prose
> > > tracts, full of pictures or not - a totally searchable archive now of
> > > looking at the world. I like the absolute versatility of the format,
> and
> > > the
> > > fact that I do not have to conform to commercial media constrictions.
> (I
> > do
> > > my version of haiku on Facebook)   In summers I get my 30 to 40 visits
> a
> > > day, and, winter & spring, 50 to 70, unless it is a real hot subject,
> it
> > > has
> > > gone up to 3000 in one day. By virtue of Google and other search
> engines,
> > > the archive is like a publisher's backlist where a "search" will take
> > folks
> > > to something written years ago. It is the 'sitemeter' that tells the
> real
> > > tale of real readers. Three or four times a day, someone will be on for
> > > twenty to thirty minutes actually, I assume, taking time to read
> closely.
> > > Those are the ones, tho I may never hear from them, that I value, or
> make
> > > me
> > > think what I have written is of value.
> > >
> > > In addition to all that, the blog has been an incubator for essays
> > > published
> > > by others, interest in poems, book promotion, gallery shows of my
> haptic
> > > work, etc., etc.
> > >
> > > Stephen Vincent
> > > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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