12 Comments to “Stand-Alone Trackback Tool from WhizbangTech”

1. February 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
   Martin said

   Nooooo … not another web2.0 app – hang on, WordPress has the trackback thing for me. – so I’ll move on

   But folks, if you need tho use this service, then obviously you’re not using WordPress. Use WordPress! I’m telling ya, it’s a breeze to use.

2. February 22nd, 2006 at 6:58 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Yes, it Martin> A breeze to use, a piece of cake, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, simple as 1,2,3, but getting all of those comments from blogger over to Word Press is indeed a scary thing.
   Liz

3. February 22nd, 2006 at 7:14 pm
   Martin said

   Got me there, Liz.

   I used Blogger for about 3 week when I first started before moving on to WordPress so I had a total of zero comments to contend with.

   But I’m sure somewhere on the web there’s a simple “1,2,3 guide to doing it”

4. February 22nd, 2006 at 7:17 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Hi Martin,
   Here’s your beverage. I can see one’s in order tonight.
   Andy Skelton just came out with one for WordPress 2.0.1, but until just now it was a terrible scary pain.
   Here’s some nachos too.
   Liz

5. February 23rd, 2006 at 9:35 am
   HART (1-800-HART) said

   Liz … On WordPress 2.0+ there is a Dashboard Menu item called “IMPORT” which can automatically import both posts and comments from Blogger, Movable Type, and even TextPattern directly into your WordPress blog. There is also an option to import osts from an RSS 2.0 file that is not covered by the above 3 platforms. I remember converting from blogspot July 7, 2005 all my blogs and the import tool that was available then made the transition smooth. I don’t think the “comment import” argument stands anymore as a valid reason not to switch, if you are on the fence.

6. February 23rd, 2006 at 9:36 am
   HART (1-800-HART) said

   .. import osts .. ? sounds like new cereal. (that was a typo)

7. February 23rd, 2006 at 9:40 am
   ME Strauss said

   EVERYBODY: HART!

   Hi Hart!
   Thanks for the confidence-building vote of support. Now all I need is the time to do it. I think I need to get the kinks out of this Successful-Blog move first. And then I’m off. I’ve already bought the domain and arranged for the hosting.

   Your comment fills me with hope that I won’t screw it up. I still yearn for someone to do it for me. I hate feeling like such a girl on this. It’s SO not like me. I grew up in an all-boys neighborhood. I fear the loss of comments greatly. I have over 320 posts on the blog in question and some of the comments are WAY better than my posts.
   Liz

8. February 23rd, 2006 at 9:50 am
   HART (1-800-HART) said

   Well, if I can make a suggestion .. moving comments is easy and you don’t have to worry. I found the most worry is in the pictures. One of the 4 blogs I moved back in July/05 had tons of pictures in the posts and I was using the free blogger / hello (or whatever) to just upload my pics to an infinite server .. The blog is still there, and the pictures, because I never deleted my old blogs – I just copied them up to that point in time into the new one. I ended up downloading the pictures from every post and putting them back on my own server, then doing the copy/paste/replace all function on every post to change the URL from blogspot. to my own domain. This way, if I ever do delete the old blog or blogger.com does .. I am not affected in any way.

9. February 23rd, 2006 at 9:54 am
   ME Strauss said

   So, Hart, are you saying that the photo links went, but only because your old blog is still on blogger?

   I have my photos in an outside service–not Hello–and on my own machine as well. I’m not sure I fully follow exactly the intricacies of what you’re saying here.

   Liz

10. February 23rd, 2006 at 10:08 am
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    Liz .. in my old posts, the img src=”URL” used to have a URL something like… (just looked at something from June 2005) ..
    http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2440/79/1600/feardog_1.jpg as an example … I had to move the picture here:
    http://www.petlvr.com/blog/wp-content/feardog_1.jpg
    And, in the post that referenced it, I renamed it accordingly… I had 3 months to do and it took me about 3 hours if I recall.

11. February 23rd, 2006 at 10:24 am
    ME Strauss said

    Ah yes! I remember that process. That’s what I had to do for every image in Successful Blog. It happened that way when we moved the content, but not the design. That’s the move from 9rules, if you want to look it up in the Encyclopedia of Successful-Blog History of Moves During this Century.

    Liz

12. May 24th, 2006 at 8:59 am
    Juuso - Game Producer said

    Great tool. Thanks for the tip! I already played with the WhizbangTech tool and seemed to work unlike my car (that would be: great