The Perfect Blogger to WordPress Migration guide

Like many others I started on Blogger but then, I wanted a little more freedom. So, went on to a self hosted wordpress. There are a lot of advantages with wordpress like SEO, customizability and most importantly freedom to do anything you want. It is a preconceived notion that migrating from Blogger to WordPress would [...]

[WordPress] How to publish pictures on Picasa Web Albums using Windows Live Writer

Now, I am on a shared hosting with limited bandwidth. When I was in Blogger, I didn’t have to worry about space and most particularly bandwidth. Blogger would automatically post my pictures to Picasa albums. Picasa albums provides us with 1 GB space and unlimited bandwidth. Yea, you heard it right, unlimited! And guess what, [...]

WordPress: Automatic thumbnails of blogger or picasa hosted images

Migrating from Blogger to WordPress was fun! Getting the thumnails working was one problem though. Thanks to TimThumb Beta script, this problem is s-o-l-v-e-d. You ask me what what’s new with TimThumb beta? By, default wordpress doesn’t make thumbnails of offsite images. This script can make thumbnails (server side resizing) of offsite images. And…don’t worry, [...]

[WordPress] How to change your webhost or domain and still retain all the settings

Sometimes, we can be mad about our webhost (due to shitty downtimes etc) and would want to move on to a better host. You would even want to change your domain name. Here’s a complete tutorial on how to make the move and still retain ALL your blog posts, comments and settings. I have made [...]