WordPress is improved :)
I can finally justify the shifting of my blog from blogger to wordpress - mainly for two major improvements in the wordpress offering.
One, the siderbar widgets allow me very easy customization of my blog. Though it is not anywhere close to full control, for majority of the bloggers it will be good enough. Also some new themes (including the one on my blog) have been added. Each theme seems to carry its own baggage of customization. Maybe the wordpress guys can look into some standardized way of publishing the data on the sidebar so that all theme creators can use them and create their themes.
The last and the truely awesome feature was import; basically allowing me to import the content from my older blog into wordpress. The service took care of importing all the posts and comments from the blogger account. From what I could glean, the import is basically HTML scraping from one’s older blog; convert the blog into a standard format, take information for each post out and then go to each post’s page and get the data alongwith the comments. The only thing missing here, seemed to be some kind of a bulk categorization tool for the newly imported posts. Also such an activity clearly shows the limitations of RSS as a publishing standard for huge content.
So now one can find whatever I have written or attempted to write in the last 2 years in this blog itself.
