{"id":45,"date":"2017-12-20T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/poetponders\/?p=45"},"modified":"2023-11-26T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T18:55:28","slug":"blogger-it-stinks-but-it-works-well-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2017\/12\/20\/blogger-it-stinks-but-it-works-well-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger&#8230; It Stinks, But It Works (Well Enough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger was amazing when I first began blogging in\u00a0<strong>2004<\/strong>.\u00a0That\u2019s right, there are posts on my blogs dating to the year Google relaunched the platform.\u00a0Today, Blogger isn\u2019t so great. It feels old and out-dated.<\/p>\n<p>But it works and I have hundreds of posts on five Blogger-hosted blogs (1334 as of tonight). The idea of exporting and importing 13 years of posts into WordPress or Medium scares me.\u00a0Should I migrate? I do not know. I\u2019m preparing to start podcasting in 2018 and it would much easier to create podcast feeds and links within WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger themes? They stink, and customizing or creating your own is a pain. I don\u2019t like the choices, yet I don\u2019t have the time to tweak the themes as much as I want. Even the tweaks I have made are lost too often &#8211; and that annoys me.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger\u2019s editor? It stinks. So does the formatting of posts with line breaks in place of paragraphs. Google could surely make Blogger an HTML5-compliant platform or at least use something more like TinyMCE for editing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m frustrated by Blogger on a regular basis. My experiments with MarsEdit are only making me dislike Blogger that much more. Because I earn some money from the blog (Google AdSense), I don\u2019t want to do anything rash that won\u2019t at least maintain the revenue. I\u2019d need to register domains, pay hosting fees, and so on because I\u2019d rather have control over my WordPress installations and configurations.<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers abandoned Blogger, ironically, and I understand why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger was amazing when I first began blogging in\u00a02004.\u00a0That\u2019s right, there are posts on my blogs dating to the year Google relaunched the platform.\u00a0Today, Blogger&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/2017\/12\/20\/blogger-it-stinks-but-it-works-well-enough\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogger&#8230; It Stinks, But It Works (Well Enough)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":13,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,10],"tags":[71,72,208,284,557,596],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csw","category-technology","category-writing","tag-blogger","tag-blogging","tag-features","tag-internet","tag-usability","tag-wordpress","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/FB_Banner_Pen_Mac.png?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfiw78-J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/csw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}