Welcome to the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing* Strange World of Axel Fendersson mk. II!
So I finally got around to doing something I’ve been vaguely considering doing for almost as long as I’ve had a blog at all: migrating it over to WordPress rather than using Blogger to administer it and Haloscan for comments.
I’ve set up some redirects so the transition should be largely seamless, but if you’ve got any bookmarks or feed-readers pointing at it, it might be worth checking that they’re going to the right place to be certain.
Importing the posts from Blogger was very easy; WordPress has an automatic import feature. Strangely, it required me to temporarily move my blog to Blogspot in order to work, but otherwise it worked pretty well.
Getting the comments from Haloscan was more difficult. In the end I just transferred them manually, entering each comment myself and then changing the author and date-stamp as required. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this was a collossal pain in the arse and took bloody ages. Apparently there are scripts that would have allowed me to transfer them more easily, but even then the process isn’t straightforward, and I can easily see something going slightly wrong and fouling things up horribly. Still, done now.
Everything seems to be working well so far. Let me know if anything seems to be broken.
The visual theme may not be permanent; I haven’t decided for certain yet. I’m reasonably happy with it, though. If you know of a better one that is a) variable-width and b) not ugly, let me know.
*not actually all new. Singing or dancing not guaranteed.