So you want to move from Blogger to WordPress?  I don’t blame you, Blogger has it’s limitations.

The one’s which annoyed me were:

• not being able to use my own domain (wisefaq.com) with Blogger.
  (yes, I know there are some hacks you can use, but I didn’t want the world to see my underwear was stamped with Blogger).
• not being to use meta strings.
• lack of support.  You’d identify a bug with Blogger, and Blogger support would say that it would be fixed in a ““future”” release.

So I struck out on my own, and have learnt a few things along the way.

• Moving from Blogger to WordPress was not that easy at the time, but I wrote about how I moved from Blogger here.
• Find a mature WordPress theme, that is being actively developed, and stick with it.
  I started out with the Binary Moon theme, which I loved, but there was no active development going on with it.  So I switched.
• Set up your blog so it’s mobile phone friendly.
  The WordPress Mobile plugin is very good, and works with most phones.  The WPTouch plugin is better.
  I’ve written a series of posts about WordPress Mobile here.
• Use TAGS on your post to get people to notice your blog posts.
  Because sites like Technorati use tags to aggregate posts.
• Enable GZip compression to save your bandwidth, and make pages load faster for readers.
• Enable Expires Headers, so images are cached locally.
• Use a tool like Yahoo! YSlow, to see what other speed improvements can be made.