Whilst I am generally happy with my Wordpress experience, since switching to a self hosted Wordpress platform from a hosted Blogger platform I’ve experienced a number of things that I never had to worry about with Blogger, some of these are listed here:
404 Errors
During each day I will receive a number of emails all with the following errors reported:
404 Report - a file not found error was registered on your site.
404 URL: http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/index.php/category/
I have a feeling this was when I reduced my number of categories and/or when I migrated my categories to tags. I found a similar problem posted on the Wordpress forums and the fix was recommended to use the following .htaccess file but this doesn’t seem to have fixed the problem.
Redirect 301 /archives/category http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/archives/tag
Time Errors
When posting - my system seems to put unusual forward dates on posts and I have to manually edit the post to change the date and time back. I have set the time on the Linux machine correctly using the sudo date command but after a short time the date and time seems to drift out again. This is probably the most frustrating problem I have found so far though I doubt this is a problem with Wordpress - it is more likely a problem on the Linux machine itself (which is running under Virtual Server 2005).
SPAM Comments
With Blogger I never once received a SPAM comment but now I seem to be getting around half a dozen a day. Whilst I have moderation activated so they don’t get onto the live Blog I can imagine it becoming quite a pain if they were to increase.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Terinea Weblog // Nov 15, 2007 at 3:41 am
Have a look at Redirection WP plugin for 404.
Linux should have a feature similar to Windows that keeps the clock up-to-date via internet.
SPAM, SPAM. Silly question, but you do have askimet enabled with a API key from WP? Not saying it rids spam, but does help. Maybe captcha plugin may help a little?
Jamie
2 Barbara // Jun 21, 2008 at 6:46 am
Hello,
Help please!
I am thinking of making the switch from blogspot to a hosted domain but, I am scared! Should I just start an entirely new blog or is there anyway of saving my existing blog? My thing is, for example many pay to blog sites require 30-90 days of existence and a certain number of posts if I change the url then is my entire history flushed?
3 jasonslater // Jun 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Barbara, thanks for the comment - I originally moved this Blog onto a dedicated host from Blogger so I understand your concerns.
Many Blog hosting sites offer an import/export facility so you can migrate your Blog posts however, I understand Blogger supports private URLS so you could use their service to redirect http://www.yournewdomain.com to your blogspot URL.
You can get more information about it here:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=55373&topic=12451
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