The transfer of posts from Blogger to WordPress was a cinch.  Really, I was in shock at how amazingly easy it was.

THEN …

I wanted to use the Picasa Photo Widget.  This widget can only be installed on WordPress blogs not hosted on the free WordPress environment.  I have a “free credit” with Go Daddy because I bought my domain name there and I thought of using it to host this blog so I could use the Picasa widget.  Then when I tried to install WordPress on that hosting account, Go Daddy informed me that I needed upgrade my service to use that blog add-on.  Bullshit.  Really.  Bullshit.

So then I thought, okay, I’ll just use the freebie WordPress environment and use the Flickr widget, meaning I’d have to create an account with them.  But then as I was adding a page to this site, I realized I didn’t need to do that either!  WordPress already comes with a gallery feature!  Again, a couple minutes and VOILA!  Photo Gallery … password protected nonetheless!  Which is the real reason I made the switch.  This is so much more like my original homegrown blog (the posts labeled “Pre-blogger”) where I could have a blog, a photo gallery and whatever else I wanted.  But I don’t have to maintain the code!  Just my stuff!  So in the end, I just needed to change my nameservers for my domain name (plus buy $10 worth of WP credits/year to have a domain pointed at my WordPress blog but that’s cheaper than the $5/month I’d have to pay if hosting it completely with Go Daddy).

I’m sorry to say but the gallery is for close friends I know personally and family.  I just don’t feel comfortable giving out the password to everyone yet.  But who knows, if I get to know you well “virtually”, perhaps I will open it up to virtual friends as well.