Well, I move house a few weeks ago and now I’ve moved blog homes as well. Wordpress on a private webhost allows me far more options to customise the site. It just means another set of coding to learn seeing as Wordpress uses php to serve the site.

It’s going to be fun getting this set up the way I want it.

Unfortunately the move from Blogger Beta to Wordpress has meant that I have lost all the comments on the posts but hopefully they will update the import feature to allow me to transfer the comments in the future.

[Edit: No longer using Blogger]

Venomous Kate from over at Electric Venom was kind enough to drop me an email and let me know that my comment links were having issues and that it took some digging to be able to post comments from some browsers.

The only place I could figure that the problems were coming from was the peekaboo comment code that I was using. I’ve removed that code now so that by clicking on the “X Comments” link it should now take you directly to the post comment page.

Chalk it up to being over eager and trying to add gadgets (the curse of being a techno geek). At some point I might switch over to Haloscan comments as they seem to be a little more robust and useful than the blogger stuff. For now the standard comments will suffice.

She also pointed out that the page doesn’t validate correctly. After checking through a large portion of the 1200 or so errors, it would seem that they come almost exclusively from the following

• Blogger’s own code in the templates
• External html being returned from a few of the hacks that I use
• a few errors coming from Live Writer

Unfortunately that means that most of them are errors that I can’t do anything about for now. Unless I move over to a different blog host that allows me more control over the template then I guess the errors are here to stay.

[Edit: No longer using Blogger]

I only just found today that comments aren’t appearing on individual post pages. They show up fine with the peekaboo comment script on the main page though.

Going to have to look into that on Monday.