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Three Theme Switch in a Row

May 15th, 2012

About a month ago I blogged about my first domain purchase of the year for a supposed niche blog, but guess what? I still had that blog nailed down to where it is now – sitting empty. Thanks for ripping me into pieces – you know who you are!

Being emotionally bothered for the last few weeks leaves me do nothing but to hunt for WordPress themes – the very least I can do that do not require much thinking especially that I was too consumed with confusion and mixed emotions to be able to think right. I don’t know how I did it but I was able to switch three themes in a row for three of my WordPress blogs – including the most recent one at a much lesser time.

Here are the links of those blogs, should you be interested to have a look:
www.wahmo.info
www.ka-nau.com
www.streetwiseconsumer.com (the newest)

I was actually surprised with myself for accomplishing something despite of what I went through. Back then, when I feel so down, I usually get nothing done. I mean none at all. My mind simply refused to do anything while all my pages would go dry till I’m ready to start ticking the keyboard again.

Thank God for that progress! For a long time, I have been trying to learn how to be productive still even amidst the rough times. Now, I have just proven I can.

StreeWiseConsumer.com: Newly Added Domain on my List

April 18th, 2012

Last week, I have successfully checked out www.streetwiseconsumer.com (still empty) for only $2.99 instead of $12.99 from Godaddy.com – my trusted domain registrar ever. It’s my first domain purchase of the year. Thanks to an FB friend for the heads up! I really intended to buy one this year for a new niche blog and have waited for domain promos as I know they keep on giving out one from time to time.

I know sometimes, I feel having numbers of blog is too much to handle but the blogger in me says I can do it! So yea, I am doing it!

Initially, I planned on buying one for a new personal blog since mine has been packed with too many outgoing links already… so monetized, in other words. I wanted a fresh one but a particular niche which I also find engaging suddenly came up to mind, thus the name of the new domain.

Besides I am so caught up with so many things right now – layout editing, blog updating, working on my side jobs and not to mention my offline chores – all these I have to fit in my narrowing timetable. Maybe when I’m free from all my backlogs, I can start thinking of an appropriate domain name for a personal blog. Until then!

My First Blog Migration Attempt was a Flop!

April 11th, 2012

In as much as I want myself to become adept in WordPress and self-hosting, I tried moving one of my blogger blogs to one of my hosting accounts by myself. So far, I’ve done the first few steps right but failed on the final step – the blog importing part.

Blog importing means moving files (i.e. blog posts, tags and comments) from one platform to another. In this case, I wanted one of my Blogger blogs be moved to WordPress which I thought was just something simple as I was told. A matter of clicking the magic button that reads: IMPORT then you will be directed to the list of systems and choose which files you want imported to your WordPress site. The problem is it won’t carry everything as described. I wanted everything from my Blogger site – posts, tags and comments be moved to my new WordPress site but what the magic button can carry out were only the posts which I eventually find frustrating after the last few attempts.

Just to have the thing done right, I ended up getting a new hosting account instead and let my new host do the job that I can’t. Thanks to her. Now I already have 3 different web hosting accounts and my newest WordPress site is found on this address: www.ka-nau.com.

The attempt was a little frustrating but the challenge didn’t stop there. I got two more Blogger blogs that I wanted in WordPress and I need to ready my patience for that next challenge!