Blog Moving Strategy

I’m new to WordPress (my blog is one week old today!) and am in the midst of moving my Blogger content over. Check out:

https://wayofcats.com/blog

Since I prefer to make my own titles on a header graphic, I put in my blog title and subheader, and made it both invisible to the eye AND SEO friendly by adding this code to the bottom of my style.css sheet, findable under the Design/Theme Editor section:

#header h1 { display:none }
#header h2 { display:none }

(code between the backticks)

Which was a tip that was not easy to find, yet essential for my kind of header. Be sure to save your changes!

I sure appreciate Pages, because they are key to my Blog Moving Strategy.

Thanks to various plugins I have been going back to my old blog and grabbing posts to beef up the content on my new blog.

Since I don’t want old readers to get leftovers, yet want new readers to be able to catch up, I have employed this cunning plan:

• when I pull a post from the old blog, I replace it with a reminder that the blog has moved, and here’s a link to the new post, keeping its permalink
• the new post gets put in a category that is not on the home page or on the feed (Advanced Category Excluder plugin)
• these new posts get put on appropriate information pages (Inline Posts plugin)

and (I hope) I have the best of both worlds. So I have a blog that is a week old but has a lot of content to explore that I know my audience is already interested in.

Hope these tips help!

(Side note: If you would like a picture of YOUR cat illustrating one of my posts, email me with my Ask Pammy contact form at the upper left corner–it’s a Page!– and if I use your pic you get credit and a link. What’s not to like?)

So…

Tell me your blog moving strategies.