We Are Moving!
Yesterday I read a post from Lyn Ross, Catch the Wave, announcing that she had moved her blog from edublogs to wordpress. Since then I have noticed some quite unsuitable ads appearing on my students’ blogs so we are also moving!
Year 8s I want to see how many of you can follow Lyn’s advice on how to move your blog and all your posts. I am copying her instruction so that you can follow them. If you don’t have an email account of your own at home you will need to do this at school using your school email.
I am also moving this blog but it won’t happen until the weekend. Can you beat me to set up your new blog? I might even have something for anyone who gets their blog setup before me!
Lyn’s Instructions
Some of us are changing our blogs from Edublogs to WordPress to get more free storage. It’s hard to leave previous posts and comments behind … however, there’s a solution! You can import your previous posts and comments from your Edublogs blog into your new WordPress one!! Follow these steps:
1. In Edublogs, go to your dashboard (in site admin)
2. Click on ‘Manage’ and then ‘Export’
3. Click on ‘Download Export File’. Save the file to your desktop.
4. Set up your WordPress blog (if you haven’t already). http://www.wordpress.com Tip: Use your name for the user name if you’re joining – no surname though!
5. Go to your WordPress dashboard and click on ‘Tools’ on the left navigation.
6. Click ‘Import’
7. Click on the last option – ‘WordPress’
8. Browse for your file (remember, it’s on the desktop!!) and then click ‘Upload file and Import’
9. You will know you’ve been successful when you see a list of your post titles and the words ‘Have Fun!’
10. Unfortunately you can’t import your cluster map (your new blog has a different URL) and you’ll have to make a new one http://www.clustermaps.com
11. Write a final post on your old blog telling your readers about the move and giving them your new blog address and you’re all set. This is important if you people to continue following you.The WordPress format is the same as Edublogs so you’ll easily find the settings you need and the theme you want. Remember to choose a theme with ‘custom header’,so you can put your own photo with your blog title.
March 12th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Did you get my email? Remember that you can’t use many widgets in Wordpress. They are a security risk (perhaps that’s why edublogs has problems.) … so sadly no scrolls, voki or virtual pets. Your students will just have to post lots of multimedia instead!
March 13th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Have you already set us up wordpress blogs or is that also up to us??
March 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I got a word press blog and did what it said but only half my posts went over (there is only 37 and I had 51) and they are not in order???
Oh my new adress is meganbe3.wordpress.com
March 13th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Me again, I inported it again and this time it worked!!!!!
March 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Well done Megan. You get a prize for being second! I was first but I’m not counted!! Like you I had to try the import several times ( more like 10 for me) and I also had to use Internet Explorer. Now to get all my widgets setup. Who will be next.
March 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Well I have managed to move as well. It was a sad moment!
Grr I was so close to being first! Ha ha I was going to do it yesterday but I ran out of time so will have settle for second. Now I need to find my way around the new settings…