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Blogger Threatens FTP Blogs
Blogger is eliminating FTP blogs. That includes A Writer's Edge, unless I can duplicate myself to have time to comprehend what they want us to do. To wit:
If this blog disappears, you'll know why. Oh, please, Lord, don't make me migrate to Word Press ...
...we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:
* We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
* We will be providing a dedicated blog and help documentation to provide as much information as possible to help guide users through the migration off of FTP.
* Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.
If this blog disappears, you'll know why. Oh, please, Lord, don't make me migrate to Word Press ...
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:31 AM
5 Comments:
Georganna - We're building a migration tool that should make the process quite painless. It's described here:
http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/01/migration-tool-overview.html
Please let us know if you have any questions at the Blogger-FTP.blogspot.com blog, we'll work hard to make this a seamless transition for you.
Thanks for using Blogger!
Rick Klau
Product Manager, Blogger
http://tins.rklau.com
Thanks, April. Yes, I've heard all the WP proselytizing for years, also a couple of horror stories about losing material.
I am impressed, Mr. Klau, of your offer of assistance.
My cups runneth over!
The migration tool blatantly does not work for blogs like this that use a 'blog.html' address. We are just screwed. (Excuse my langauge, it is VERY frustrating)
I use this script, and I'm keeping my content on my server: http://tinyurl.com/yj26okr
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