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This post has been made through IMified. Although I can hardly imagine having ONLY instant messenger connectivity, it is still pretty cool to be able to IM your blog posts. Guess it takes time to get accustomed.

Another funny moment – the phone-like menu for IMified. Just plain old telephone system… “If your house is on fire, please press 1 now…”

Apparently upgrade to WP 2.3 is much more problematic then I thought. Even though I updated the test blog first (didn’t see any signs of trouble), the upgrade of this one left me without much liked plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior. Hopefully the developer will release an update soon…

Migration from Blogger to WordPress is complete, thanks to great importing tool in WP. Although it wasn’t easy, this is the way it worked:

1. Create an account on WordPress.com
2. Login, go to Manage->Import to import all posts from Blogger to that account’s blog.
3. Assign authors. Since I am the only one author here, this was easy.
4. Manage->Export all posts to the XML file.
5. Login to your hosted WordPress blog.
6. Assign authors (again!).
7. Manage->Import from WordPress, browse for downloaded XML file.
8. In my case – deal with Uncategorized posts (that I had the majority of), took me around couple of hours to assign them to proper categories/tags.

Last time I touched WordPress was more then a year ago, so I was glad to find out that WP looks better then ever. Number of useful (from my personal perspective) plugins is finally catching up, I was able to find, install and set them up in no time, the blog engine itself is very fast and still good looking.