Describing my immediate surroundings towards the beginning and a twist to the tale or possible solutions to issues towards the end of some blogs and how they relate to my expectations of the world at large.
The Import and Export features of the WordPress.com `Tools` section of the `Dashboard` worked well. The contents from `flynnsblogs` went to my second WordPress.com, which is currently set to private because it was a test site and well a duplicate of my precious puppies, which are primarily located here.
Click here to learn more about how to copy/export the contents from one WordPress.com and to paste/import into another WordPress.com.
To paste/import the contents from one WordPress.com weblog to a second WordPress.com weblog, you’d first have to copy/export from the first weblog:
Go to your first weblog >> Dashboard >> Tools >> Export
- Select – WordPress
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file.
The next page will show:
When you click the button below WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer.
This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.
Once you’ve saved the download file, you can use the Import function on another WordPress site to import this site.
- Start Date
- End Date
- Authors
- Categories
- Post Tags
- Content Types
- Statuses
[Download Export File]
Go to your second weblog >> Dashboard >> Tools >> Import:
Howdy! Upload your WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file and we’ll import the posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags into this site.
Choose a WordPress WXR file to upload, then click Upload file and import.
Choose a file from your computer: (Maximum size: 15MB)
[Browse]
[Upload file and import]
The next page will show:
Assign Authors
To make it easier for you to edit and save the imported posts and drafts, you may want to change the name of the author of the posts. For example, you may want to import all the entries as
admins entries.1. Import author: [user name here][Map to existing]
Import Attachments
[ ] Download and import file attachments
[Submit Query]
The next page will show:
Processing…
We’re processing your import now and will send you an email when it’s all done. If you don’t hear from us within 24 hours, please contact support, and we’ll get everything fixed.
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I tried a few hours ago but my first weblog file shows over 15MB! So I bet that the original contents will not copy/import over completely!
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Addendum: ALL contents imported 100% within the same day!
Since I cannot afford to pay hundreds of dollars to retrieve an old domain name, I’m checking to see if I still could register that domain name through one of my WordPress.com weblog. I guess it has not yet gone into the public pool. This is the message I got:
Domains
Someone (maybe you?) already registered [domain name here], but the domain is not pointing to WordPress.com.
I own this domain. Help me fix it!
Using the DNS tools provided by your domain registrar, remove any existing nameservers and add the following:
- NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
- NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
- NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
Then come back here and try again. It may take several hours for our system to recognize the changes.
If you need more information, see our Mapping an Existing Domain support guide.
[I changed my domain’s nameservers. Try adding my domain to my blog again.
I don’t own this domain. Can I try another?
Go ahead. Try as many as you like to find that perfect domain.
If you need more information, see our Registering a New Domain support guide.
I need more help.
To learn more about our domain mapping feature, check out our Domain Mapping support guide.
If you need more help, or if your registrar recommends a different solution, please contact support via the Help link at the top right of this page. We will help you sort it out.
http: // [domain name here] [Add domain to blog]
Below are two samples you’d see when you press the [Delete] button next to your domain name. The [Delete] button is located in between the [Renew] and [Cancel Private Whois] buttons.
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This one cannot be refunded.
Domains
Confirm deletion of domain
Please confirm that you would like to delete the domain [domain name here] on this blog.
This action is not reversible. You will have to register the domain to use it again. It may be a few hours before the domain becomes available to register again.
Please read carefully. You are trying to permanently delete this domain.
Do not delete your domain to transfer your blog to another site. The domain can be transferred to the new host.
Do not delete your domain to redirect your blog. You can use the DNS setting on your domains page to point the domain elsewhere.
If you are sure…
[Delete Domain]
You will not receive a refund of the cost of this domain as it was purchased more than 3 days ago or there was a problem finding your payment. Please contact support if you have any queries about this cancellation.
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This one can be refunded.
Domains
Confirm deletion of domain
Please confirm that you would like to delete the domain [domain name here] on this blog.
This action is not reversible. You will have to register the domain to use it again. It may be a few hours before the domain becomes available to register again.
Please read carefully. You are trying to permanently delete this domain.
Do not delete your domain to transfer your blog to another site. The domain can be transferred to the new host.
Do not delete your domain to redirect your blog. You can use the DNS setting on your domains page to point the domain elsewhere.
If you are sure…
[Delete Domain]
You will receive a refund for this domain as it was purchased less than 3 days ago.
Although I severely wish to have time stamps for my posts, the WordPress.com theme – INove by mg12, will serve `Flynn’s Blog` (a singular form as one weblog site) well.
However, since the `Banner` of the `iNove Theme Options` pushes the Blog/Site title and Tagline down into the `contents` below via IE7, I had to remove that feature. With FireFox, the `Banner` does not affect the `header` contents.
I give up! I needed a`permanent` WordPress.com theme without the addiction of tweaking a paid CSS upgrade.
With the WordPress.com theme – INove by mg12 , everything is clear.
PROs:
CONs:
After posting an entry via the WordPress.com forum `http://en.forums.wordpress.com/`, I’ve lurked around my weblogs again and wanted to convert my tags (found under categories) back to categories.
Because I’m dumb and blind, I never noticed this feature. It appears as the second header called:
Categories and Tags Converter
[Use this] to convert categories to tags or tags to categories.
Gratefully, this converter tool worked! I’m happy again.
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Then I noticed the fourth and last tool called:
Webmaster Tools Verification (?)
Enter your meta key “content” value to verify your blog with Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer, and Bing Webmaster Center
I followed the WordPress.com instructions for this `tool` VERY slowly and CAREFULLY.
I verified `Flynn’s Blogs` successfully but not the other two WordPress.com weblogs, which probably have too little traffic for tracking statistics. As result, I’m able to see how blog traffic looks like for my main WordPress.com weblog. There are four areas for viewing blog traffic:
Finally, I found that over three hundred links from other domains were from: http://digitalangeldonnadj.com/blog/ ! How cool is that? God bless you, Mews! Brouhaha.
But there is only one subscriber to my feed! That’s sucks! Waahh!
Anyway, I’ve yet to try the other two tools:
Press This
Press This is a bookmarklet: a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab bits of the web.
Use Press This to clip text, images and videos from any web page. Then edit and add more straight from Press This before you save or publish it in a post on your site.
Drag-and-drop the following link to your bookmarks bar or right click it and add it to your favorites for a posting shortcut.
[Press This]
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Post by Email
You can publish posts using emails with the Post by Email feature. To enable this visit your [My Blogs] page and create a secret address.
I already signed up to post by email but don’t have one of those fancy cellphones to make it work. It’s a weird link but easy to memorize.
Do you remember my blogs about internet addiction? Well, I’ve not stopped changing my WordPress.com theme and this time it’s back to: `Black-LetterHead by Ulysses Ronquillo`! I was tempted to purchase a CSS upgrade for $14.97 a year (or $0.04 per day). But I resisted!
Since my domain name now sports a suffix “ster` (as in `gangster`), I figured that the bloody red, deathly gray and deeper black colors would give off the vibration of a thuggish blogger – moi!
And yes, it’s my sovereign right to spew nonsense that the faint of heart would dare not troll. Alas, trolls do come and go. I can tell and so can you: Just read (or at least subscribe to) my comments.
You will get a feel as to the weird stuff that no one really cares about because there are lots of blogs out there and mine just doesn’t make the popular list.
Who cares? I do! Then again, it’s all about keeping my fingers busy, my mind sharp and my journals up-to-date.
Today I saw a banner on my dashboard:
WordPress.com tip: Let your readers easily share your posts on Twitter by turning on the new Tweet Button for your blog.
By clicking on the link, I was directed to the `Extras` page:
Extras
These are general extras that you can enable for your entire blog.
- Enable mShots site previews on this blog
- Display a mobile theme when this blog is viewed with a mobile browser
- Hide related links on this blog, which means this blog won’t show up on other blogs or get traffic that way
- Show a like button and who has liked my post on all of my blog posts above the comments section
- Show a Twitter “Tweet Button” on my posts.
What I had in mind with regards to `Sharing the post` is similar to what Plinky.com has as far as adding services and posting to MY chosen accounts, not the other way around as with this `Tweet Button`. And I guess there won’t be any `stats` on where my posts are going if people share via Twitter, huh?
When I blog, I rant. When I rant, I blog. I love freedom of speech. It’s supposed to be my First Amendment right. I don’t need a babysitter or a blog police.
Earlier this afternoon, someone was trolling in my comments. I could sense that it was part of the `security team`. It was also meant for me to explain myself. Either the reader requires clarification or you are putting me on your `no fly-by list`.
When I sense something creepy, that will be part of my blog. When I’m personally experiencing something that will bring America to a martial law lock-down, don’t come crying to me and apologize.
If you have not already read my disclaimer, you are a fool. Learn about some laws and be kind to insane or at least VERY frustrated people who need justification for existing on this god-forsaken planet. Sheesh!
At around 8:00pm, I’ve purchased my third domain name for Flynn’s Blogs! It’s now `flynnsblogster.com`. Why?
Since `flynnsblogs.com` is already taken, my domain name includes the suffix ~ster:
3. ster – by rickster (Jun 10, 2003)
suffix. (your first name here)ster. An easy nickname labeled on yourself or colleagues commonly used to emphasize said individuals’s aura. A person that oozes their own personality.
Rickster
a suffix used in forming nouns, often derogatory, referring especially to occupation, habit, or association: gamester; songster; trickster.
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The original `thebloggingpath.wordpress.com` was registered in a plural and is more often associated with more than one blog:- The new owner of `flynnsblogs.com` has gotten the idea correctly. He can keep it but if not, I’ll probably buy it back later.
When I originally registered this WordPress.com domain name, I debated on whether my blog should have been singular or plural. But with my new domain name, one could see `flynnsblogster.com` as a singular -`flynnsblog`, now that it has the suffix ~ster.
It sounds like a gangster (which makes me appear tough as a hardball) and someone who is addicted to blogging, too. Further, I simply couldn’t get rid of Flynn from my domain name: It’s part of moi. For the better part of today and during working hours of course, I browsed some more online and couldn’t come up with a suitable; yet descriptive version of my MAIN WordPress.com: Flynn’s Blogs.
Now all I need is a suitable Blog Title and Tagline. I’m not too please with the shortened versions and may use something different. For the meantime enjoy reading the continuance of `Blogs by Flynn : Alternative topics and alternative rants`.