I’m testing out the Qumana blog editor here and attemtpting to cross post to my BookLover blog,as well as my Wordpress hosted blog since my InMyBooks WP hosted on Yahoo server is down. AND it appears I’m not the only one. My IT colleague at work actually advised me to select another host, just not Yahoo — he hasn’t heard great things about their web hosting services. I should heed that warning.
Yep, it’s been a tumultous journey to say the least. Since last Tuesday, I’ve been trying to set up a Wordpress blog on Yahoo, since I already have a Yahoo ID, and I’ve read that the partnership with WP allows WP user to easily add several tools such as a built in Flickr album, and several other goodies that come with activating a WP blog on Y!.
Selected a few themes (see below images posted manually above) and finally settled on the Narnia theme. Then, disaster struck when I tried to import my posts from Blogger but couldn;t. I trawled the support forums and tried various methods and suggestions, reading and re-reading the installation instructions over and over and over. I was up at it for two night straight trying all kinds of tricks to get this done.
I was ready to tear my hair out, when I suddenly decided to test out the import tool by setting up one hosted on Wordpress.com, and so I did. The posts imported beautifully, I’ll just have to set up the links and bookmarks. Then it hit on me that I can import the RSS feeds from this or even the blogger posts in
[ok, I have to log in to blogger here to physically paste the remaining text, and upload the images above, but on my WordPress hosted blog, it gets posted in its entirety, except the images didn’t show. Will have to try that out again].
into my Yahoo-hosted one. I did that on Sunday late morning but the comments and the posts were a mess — everthing were thrown into a mix altogether. And the comments were imported as individual posts, divorced from the posts they were supposed to be ‘married’ to.
So, last night I trawled the forums again to find a solution, but having not much sleep the previous night, I had to call it the day after tweaking the design template and achieved the results I was after.
So, I came back home early, meaning before 7.15pm so I could settled the kids in earlier and start working on the problems, only to have the server giving me problems. If this thing works, I’m going to retain my Blogger blog, sinc eit’s so easy to work with, limited in functions as it is. But at this stage, I have more faith in Google technology than Yahoo.
It seems I may have to start looking for another host for my domain. But that’s another post I guess.
Posted on April 25th, 2006 by ag
Filed under: All else
I’m so sorry you’ve had so many problems. I suspect Yahoo is the cause of many problems.
Uninvited info:
I did a search on hosting companies a while back. My basic criteria: pre-installed scripts [wordpress included], CGI, SSI, PHP and mySQL should NOT be considered as ‘extras’, e.g. these should be part of a hosting package at a very reasonable price.
At the time, I planned to have a reader web site, hence the criteria, but it didn’t go through because Bev BB has already had one lined up.
Things to consider when shopping around: bandwidth [more people visiting to your blog/site, more increase the ‘bandwidth’ will be], MBs [50MB or less will do], email account, web stats, etc.
If you feel lost at a host company, avoid it. Go for the one with many well-written FAQs, helpline/pages, etc. Any site that you feel comfortable is good, really!
I also tested my choices by emailing a simple technical enquiry [e.g. problems with installing a pre-installed script - rather than anything that will show that you are a potential customer] to see how responsive and quick they would be.
That’s how I ended up with my choice [hostmatters.com], but my domain was purchased at 1&1.com, though.
FWIW, anyway. Good luck!
All the hard work is paying off hun. Your blog looks beautiful!
www.HeatherWaters.net
Thanks, heather! I like the unusual background image of yours. haven’t customise and added any links yet but hope to get on to that soon.