Woe, Blogger, woe. Very disappointed to see that you have decided to discontinue the FTP, static publishing option that I have used for, 11, yes 11 years. I’ve been there from the start. I even gave you money for ‘Pro’ before Google bought you. I got a hoodie as a thank you.
I did wonder since the development of Blogger seemed to be happening at the speed of continental drift, and had at best a ghost staff who dropped by occasionally to mimic badly some WordPress features.
I didn’t want a dynamic, database driven blog. There has been no need for dynamism in my peculiar corner of the web. However, I suppose it’s off to Blogger’s sexier cousin WordPress for me. If anyone reading this can recommend a nice archive migration tool, please post in the comments.
Still, I am sad to go…
I just did a migration from Blogger to WordPress too. It was a little painful to convert, but I in fact like the end result more – even the non-blog content on my site is published via wordpress now. If it helps you, I wrote about the way I migrated existing content…
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/02/14/adventures-in-migrating-from-static-website-blogger-sftp-to-wordpress/
Basically you want to use this tool http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/
Thanks Dan! How very fortuitous that you've done the research. I'll check it out. x