VPB and WordPress

Local, Politics, Virginia 1 Minute

An increasing number of Virginia political bloggers are abandoning Blogger (yea!) and heading over here to WordPress for their blog hosting. (For anyone who is looking to change over, be aware that WordPress offers an import function, so you can bring all of your posts over from Blogger. Howver, you cannot import your posts from Blogger Beta. The forums here at WordPress.com seem to have a workaround that some folks have been successful in using.)

What has been funny to me is the themes – or should I say theme – that people are choosing to use. Take a look at South of the James, Virginia Virtucon and Bryan J. Scrafford (plus Skeptical Brotha – not in VA but on my blogroll) – notice anything? 😆

Either we all came to the same conclusion or they copied me 🙂 If it is the former, there is hope that R’s and D’s can find some common ground. But why do I suspect it might be the latter? 😆

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29 thoughts on “VPB and WordPress”

  2. You’re right 😛 Creigh’s site uses a modified version of the theme, something we can’t do here – unless we buy the CSS upgrade (and then learn how to use it 😦 )

  3. I almost switched to WordPress about a week or two ago, but in the end, it just seemed like more of a hassle to switch. I think I’m finally beginning to learn how to use blogger beta, and finally got my feeds running correctly. 🙂

  4. I was with blogger a couple years ago. What I did not use was BlogSpot. I wrote my own template, and hosted it myself. I still wasn’t crazy about comments and my profile being hosted on Blogger, and the lack of support for categories is just crazy.

    Those who use Blogger should be aware that those templates they’re using are so generic, it makes your blog look amateurish right off the bat, and some visitors will be driven away on that basis alone.

    Regarding WP, I’ve tried it, and I hate it. I prefer Movable Type. And self-hosting.

  9. “Those who use Blogger should be aware that those templates they’re using are so generic, it makes your blog look amateurish right off the bat, and some visitors will be driven away on that basis alone.”

    I would hope that people aren’t so narrow minded as to be driven away by the TEMPLATE the writer is using.

  10. Believe me Terry. I’m in web development. You have 15 seconds to make an impression on a visitor, or they’re gone. If your template looks exactly like the blog the visitor just left, forget about it. Do you know how many Virginia blogs I’ve seen on Blogger using that nautical theme with the lighthouse in the corner? After four or five of those, you don’t have to be all that narrow to begin thinking please, just a little originality?!

  12. Blewsdawg, I don’t doubt you on the fact that people probably do it. I’m just saying, I consider myself a good writer (and hope others do to), I don’t however, consider myself ANY good at html (which has nothing to do with my opinions and columns). I know the basics, but not much more. I use one of the provided templates from blogger (not the lighthouse one, lol), and have NO CLUE how to add a picture to the top like many others do on there. 🙂

  13. But I am a conservative and fear change! 🙂

    Vivian,

    Are you getting and kick backs from WordPress?

    As for the common used theme, I know they copied you. This is a class operation here.

    Actually, it is a nice, clean format. Hmmm, maybe something to consider…

    How do you insert the photo on the top? e-mail me.

  14. Speaking of adding pictures – I hope all of the bloggers here at WP know that most of the themes (including this one) have the ability to add a picture at the top. No knowledge of CSS or HTML required 🙂

    I don’t know which theme on blogger is the lighthouse one but there is one over there that I find absoluely horrible – the one with the bright red/orange bar across the top. Here at WP we don’t have as many themes to choose from but most of ours at least are tasteful and easy on the eyes.

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