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Future posts will be on this, my own domain

Shh — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:24:00 +0000

I have migrated to Wordpress.org. Look, I’m here!

I am limiting the new posts on this blog to rants and raves, primarily about groups/non-profits, etc. and to my Wordless Wednesday photos. So, there will not be daily posts, with the RSS feed, you would receive the infrequent updates.

My participation in Photo Hunt will continue, but on http://tumbledwords.com — as soon as my camera is repaired.

Thank you to all who visited this blog on Blogger in the past. If you haven’t been here before, browse a few categories before leaving. I hope you check out my other blog as well, http://MeeAugraphie.com.

And yes, some of these categories are being ‘repaired’ now, so it is a bit of a mess, but getting there.

Have you backed up your Blogspot blog?

Shh — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:36:00 +0000

It is so simple with Firefox and the fuss free guidance from Dummies Guide to Google Blogger, formerly known as Beta Blogger for Dummies!

I just backed up two of my blogs, on to do the third, what a good feeling, knowing it is safely stored somewhere, well, at least somewhere other than just where it normally is.

Check out his post here.

Shh? No! Speak up, instead!

Shh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:48:15 +0000

I just changed the title of my blog from Shh-speakup to:

Shh? No! Speak up!

to reflect its original purpose. I got carried away with the photos and a few normal posts here and there, so I am taking it back to its roots.

Yes, I am trying to do too much at once, I am a person of extreme, too much or two little, but I am, at least, trying to organize my blogs. I have gone back through March so far, taking out some entries that don’t fit my vision, thought I have left them on the original Shh-speakup for now, I still have to learn how to deal with all that.

Hopefully, this will be the last entry that doesn’t fit the blog’s purpose.

Migration completed, but blogs in progress

Shh — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:57:00 +0000

Had I just made that one phone call to understand one little detail these would have gone over days ago, weeks ago. Using Fantastico on my host site, lunarpages, to load Wordpress.org 2.2.1 was easy once I realized what to name the directories. Using the import tab in Wordpress on the admin page brought my blogs over with no problems – so quickly – it seemed impossible – though I did lose a few comments, not sure why, but as much as I love your comments unless someone tells me a quick way to figure it out, I am NOT hunting through them all! And Mr. Murphy, it better not be the most important comments of all! I’ve had enough of your Murphy’s Law stuff recently.

I still have to find instructions to add no follow wherever it needs to be, add back all those cute little (and necessary) linked buttons, and find a template I love love love! Yes, I know I should have transferred just one at a time — but hey, I may have forgotten the directions by then!

I have gotten conflicting info on 301 redirects – anyone with an opinion or facts, feel free to share it please!

There will be changes and experimentation and more of the same – and who knows what I will get done when, but now it all feels like fun again.

So, please move to the new blogs to comment, I will try to get the no follow off (if it’s on??) later today, I think I have to download FTP software first, still learning.

http://tumbledwords.com
http://shh-speakup.com (that one is changing a lot soon!)
http://rvpoetry.com

(I did not move my poetry blog, meeaugraphie.com to wordpress – yet – because it is on its own domain.)

Still some things about Blogger I like better and they are adding all the time — For a first blog I still prefer them over Wordpress. com – much easier to use!

Migration Progress and Florida Summer invasion

Shh — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:04:00 +0000

OK, I shoved aside memories of calling support for PC years ago only to reach an uninterested person that also had no clue – and dialed Lunarpages support. I did have to hold a long time, but the man was nice and fixed my problem – I think. Then I played again, experimented -grin. I now have Wordpress 2.2.1 loaded onto three blogs, but I did completely delete it from the one blog I had already migrated to, this one! I put it in a directory that, by name, should have been for my poetry blog. So, I got brave and dumped it and. . . .

Tomorrow while I brave the heat with no A/C I will transfer those three and if that works, I will buy the FTP client?? for Mac and stare into space again. Of course, I have two different recommendations from two reliable sources – and we know I over think things at times.

(At least in Florida we had A/C — heck of a time to be thinking about breaking records for heat! But I loaded up on Gatorade, water, lemons, ice, and cold foods! I’ve got mini skirts and loose t-shirts ready, strategically placed scrunchies to get my long hair off me, and I’m determined to ward off the heat) I’m locking away the alcohol in case I get tempted – grin.

I hate summer when it acts like a Florida summer! I feel for y’all suffering through it all the time, I remember it only too well! — Our temps are supposed to be about 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. At least it is cool over night!

Migration oops, continued!

Shh — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:09:00 +0000

Isn’t this fun! Actually it is amusing. I have other blogs y’all haven’t seen started at lunarpages – not uploaded to the net yet – not even sure how, but it must be possible, because this one just uploaded to its own domain with Wordpress kind of by magic! So, I guess I just need to figure out what magic words I didn’t say to the B2Evolution blogs.

There is just one little minor glitch about Shh-Speakup. You see, I have domain names ready to go for Tumbled Words and RVPoetry, once I move them. RV Poetry is sitting on my B2Evolution dashboard, I’m working on it. Tumbled Words is just the domain still. However, this morning while trying to bore Leon, I discovered that if I type either of those names (which should not yet go anywhere) they both take us directly to Shh-Speakup.com. What on earth did I do???????

Migration begun – Help appreciated

Shh — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:20:00 +0000

but real life has interfered —

I only migrated this blog, I decided wise woman would not do the other one yet! My photos went over, SOME of my comments. . . Looks like links within posts are there. What about links in comments???? Not there! Although some of my Mr. Linkys are there and those links work. . . .

Now, I saw something about a 301 redirect – and copied it and made the changes on my text editor, but I need to find out if I should use it. I’m going to back up something later and add the code and see what happens. Isn’t this fun?! Actually, it is – a bit.

Now, she says to herself and anyone listening — forgetting for the moment the 301 Redirect –

Is it true I have to relink ALL THOSE photos? Please, say, not! I mean, after all, Blogger now sends the photos up to Picasa, so with my limited knowledge and powers of reasoning , the photos should be fine! Right? They are really linked to Picasa then and not Blogger?

OOPS – does this mean I have to search again for instructions on no-follow? Because I did it for Blogger before? And what happens to those commentors that were linked and now aren’t?
Does the 301 make up for that? Do I need to leave both versions of my blog out there indefinitely?

Now, I have to get software for Mac to upload the template I want into the file that is somewhere I haven’t found yet. I don’t want the templates that came as defaults. I’ll learn. Damien helped a bit already with one little question. . . the only one I asked so far. I have a couple more for him. . . Of course, anyone else is free to jump in.

So, the first part was easy. Copying the 301 redirect code I found is easy, too, once I find out if I should do it. Now, where does that template get uploaded to?

P.S. It was a shock when I hit import and ALL my blogs showed up on that Wordpress screen. At least I knew enough not to tell it to put ALL of them on that domain. Oh yeah, one more questions, there waas a button on that page that did something, resetting or something? I wonder what that was? OK, on to being a housewife.

to be continued. . . .

Today is the day I migrate

Shh — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:34:00 +0000

OK, this is it. Today is the day I migrate (only) two of my blogs to Wordpress.org. This one and Tumbled Words. I know it won’t happen overnight, I just hope it happens. Both will be under their blognames with .com added.

I will be making some changes to Shh-Speakup, using it as I originally intended, more as a link and comment on organizations and just speaking up. No fluff, so to speak, as its name infers.

I am moving the two memes I do, Wordless Wednesday and the Saturday Photo Hunt to Tumbled Words. Now, as is my personality, I am not just moving one, then waiting to see what happens, but just going for it. . . That is if I can figure it out. If I am successful, I will post the link to the instructions I found in the next post, along with the correct link to my new blogs. If not, well, I’ll post that info, if I can retrieve this blog ever again. But I will be successful, the alternatives are not acceptable.

Please, keep your fingers crossed – and your toes, and that hair on your head — ’cause I read between the lines so much in poetry and people’s body language, I may try to read between the lines in code instructions, too, and we all know that is a mistake.