For those of you who don’t care about this stuff, I’ll be back with baby pictures or something to entertain you later 
I’ve been asked to talk about just exactly how I managed to make the move… what steps I took, that sort of thing. I’ll be honest with you, I had no clue what I was doing. I just flew by the seat of my pants and hoped for the best.
I wanted to make the move because after reading several articles and especially after the discussions at Bloggy Boot Camp, I knew that the ‘serious’ bloggers were on WordPress. I want to be taken seriously.
I’d already bought my own domain name through Dreamhost, where I have my family webpage from eons ago that I never update. (That link is my affiliate link, FYI). I’ve had nothing but great service from them. My store was through GoDaddy and I just was not as impressed with their customer service. I also find Dreamhost more user friendly.
I had set up my dot com (tatertwins.com) to be my Blogger blog when I bought it. Since I didn’t go through Blogger to do that, I had to go in and mess with the DNS settings. They’d given step by step instructions on the help page, so it was super easy.
I did that because I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to figure out WordPress, and I didn’t want to make the public move until I was ready. But here is where I ran into issues- see my dot com was pointing at my Blogger blog, so when I tried to install WordPress, I got errors. There’s probably a way around it, but what I did was I created a subdomain on my family dot com and installed the WordPress software there.
Something I didn’t know until I started the process was that if you go to WordPress.com and sign up for a blog- that’s totally different than if you install WordPress on your own domain. I’d had a WordPress.com blog before- my grief blog- but when I created my pregnancy blog (which morphed into this one) I went to Blogger. That decision was solely based on the fact I couldn’t figure out how to get that little floating baby widget in my sidebar on WordPress. Priorities, right?
