I must be a real sucker for punishment. After two failed previous attempts to switch my blog to Wordpress, I am now on round 3 - and I am getting my ass roundly whipped.

For the past couple of days, I have been reading up online on various Wordpress plug-ins and I have been scrutinising the Wordpress set-up to work it all out. At the moment I am using Blogger and if you are in the same boat, let me tell you that Wordpress may be a very robust blogging platform to use - but it is a real bitch to set up. I have stuck with Blogger until now because I like my applications to be easy and straight-forward. Click a button and it's done. With Wordpress, it's click several buttons and then work out how you managed to crash half the set-up.

I got a theme uploaded and that was a real achievement for me. In fact I was so happy to get that done that I stopped for a cold beer to celebrate! But after that, it was all banging the keyboard in frustration.

Ah well, hopefully I'll get the damn thing set up for next Christmas.....!

I've been spending the past few days attempting to move the blog over to Wordpress. This is something that I have been kicking around for a while but I knew it would take a while to move everything over so I was procrastinating and finding reasons to put it off. However, the other day as I was watching Tony Blair finally announce that he was quitting, I decided on impulse to start the moving over of the blog.

That's not to say it hasn't had its fair share of hiccups. For a start, I couldn't automatically import my posts from Blogger because the Wordpress importer hasn't caught up yet with the "new Blogger". That meant tediously copying and pasting all my posts from Blogger to Wordpress. That more or less went OK and it actually gave me the chance to sort through my posts, delete the crap and generally clean up.

But the one thing that really annoyed me was that I couldn't get any HTML blog features to appear in my sidebar. Wordpress runs on CSS and it didn't seem to want to accept my HTML code. Then the blog disappeared completely from my website, YouTube videos made the template explode......people say that Blogger is very buggy? I would say that Wordpress is even worse!

Which is a shame because I had a really cool template all set up and ready to go.....but if I can't get the bugs straightened out, then I will have to ditch Wordpress altogether..... :-(