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Moving Alison Rosen to WordPress

I am not a fan of Blogger. It can’t be hosted on your own server, and there is an element of control missing that WordPress has and Blogger doesn’t.

So when I saw Alison Rosen using Blogger, I wanted to help her move to WordPress, and start using her own domain name. I’m no designer, but here’s what I’ve come up with so far:



I got Facebook Connect up and running with the help of Disqus. Each post has the ShareThis plugin, in addition to the Tweetmeme plugin.

Also, moving from Blogger was a breeze. You login to Blogger within WordPress and it just imports everything.

Another cool thing that I did is cached her Twitter feed. I modified this code to accept the JSON instead of an RSS feed. We are only hitting the Twitter API every ten minutes, instead of everytime someone hits the site.

Hope you like the site. I plan on building more things into it, and eventually trying to get a real designer to take a look at it.

Check out her demo reel, she is pretty funny:

I wanted to help her because she blogs A LOT. And she deserves to have a nice place for her to express herself, and for her audience to contribute. What do you think of the site?

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    It's a welcomed change. I very much enjoy Alison's blog and it's good to see it on a site that is more commensurate with her talent. Keep up the great work.

  • Cynthia McCune

    I like it! Clean and light, interesting font. Not bad for a “non-designer.”

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    The site looks great! I sent you a mail regarding the questions you had.

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    I think you did a fine job ,on this site.

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    The design looks clean.

    Not sure why it says “without comments” below each title.

    Also, pl update the blogroll as its all urls related to wordpress, alison may want some related to her blog content.

    I have been wanting to move to wordpress fr blogger for a while, this is tempting me.

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    Nice job on getting her something better. I need to do something to that effect because I'm to reliant on sites already out there. You made her site look GREAT! Totally socially integrated too.

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    You seem to have got the niche from the root, Awesome work

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