Comments on: Pissed off with Blogger removing FTP

By: David Lawrenson

David Lawrenson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:36:35 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, that was most useful

By: Peter Handley

Peter Handley — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:58:45 +0000

I found wordpress very easy to setup, though from workin in SEO, I am
somewhat technically minded. It's relatively easy to choose a theme on
how this looks and to import posts from blogger.

This way you have full control of your files - it's hosted in your
environment not hosted on google servers.

In fact, since moving I've not looked back. Whilst not as simple as
blogger, wordpress is infinitely more flexible and customisable and i
am now able to do much more with the site than I could before.

By: David Lawrenson

David Lawrenson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:25:07 +0000

I found your blog post on this on google.
I agree completely with your comments.
The shame is that I cannot seem to find much info on what the alternatives are.
Perhaps you could comment here or on my blog and let me know how you actually did it with WordPress. Was it hard to set up?
You might like to read my recent blog post on this. As you can see from that, to me what was and is really worrying was that there are lots of business issues here, including ownership of copyright, control, SEO issues etc. I tried to document all these issues in this blog post and have invited comments. None yet, worse luck.
How does it work with old blogs you had posted on your site from Blogger. Did you just post a last message saying, “Hi Folks, the new blog posts will now be posted here….”
http://www.lettingfocus.com/2010/03/blogger-not...

By: earonesty

earonesty — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:40:45 +0000

I wrote a program that lets you keep the old ftp system:

http://www.documentroot.com/2010/03/how-to-fix-...

So you can use blogger, use blogspot and use your own domain… the same way it used to work.