OK, forget my last point about the Feedburner WordPress plugin

I was wrong!

And not for the first – or last – time.

Turns out the Feedburner plug-in works as promised. It just took a bit of time for it to come into effect. That means I can now finish importing my widgets from my old blog, import my old posts, and we’re good to go.

Hurrah!

Moving blogs is worse than moving house…

At least when I move house, it’s just a lot of packing, lifting and unpacking again. But moving blogs is traumatic, particularly switching to WordPress after two years with Blogger.

So far I’ve mastered the arts of hosting, domains, adding themes and plug-ins, and adding a widget or two.

But even with the Feedburner plug-in, I can’t seem to redirect the stock RSS feeds, which is a pain in the backside. I don’t want to start really promoting this new location and trying to recover my Google PR and Technorati ranks etc, until I’ve got some way of tracking any and all RSS subscribers.

*sigh*

Having a proper domain seemed like such a good idea at the time. And at least I’m learning some more…

Well, I’m getting there…

OK, so I still need to sort out all the relevant plugins, widgets etc, etc, but at least I’ve settled on a base template. Finally. Although, to be fair, there are a huge range of templates for WordPress that are all pretty good – especially compared with the limitations of Blogger, which I’m far more familiar with!

So, now to install a plugin to start customising this theme, and porting other any relevant widgets which I’ll be keeping. Then I’ll finally be up to date and ready to rock.

At last.

In the meantime, you can still keep up with the old Way of the Web blog, at http://www.thewayoftheweb.blogspot.com.

And I couldn’t resist starting a new blog on Blogger, just to keep with it, and experiment without splashing out on hosting. I would have switched to the hosted version of WordPress, but I wanted to see how advertising would work. It’s ad http://www.nissannxworld.blogspot.com, and it’s dedicated to the Nissan NX car range. The site was prompted by my own purchase of a 1993 Nissan 100 NX, so it’s very much a personal fun project…

Instead of booking an expensive social media conference

You’ll probably get more long term value by using the three-figure booking fee to encourage your employees to actually sign up for Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg, or Twitter. *

*Does not apply to the myriad of really good unconferences and workshops springing up, and organised by people who admit they don’t know the absolute answer to everything – but are working to get there. Examples include Measurementcamp or MediaCamp Bucks ’08 (Disclosure: I’m running a session there.)