Granted, this is a genealogy blog.  And I rarely post non-genealogy subjects.  However, I’ve been working on this for 3 days and it’s a bit frustrating!

bluehost (Photo credit: msandy)

The goal was to put my website and my blog “under one roof” so to speak.  The web host I used for my website was GoDaddy with whom I had become increasingly dissatisfied.  Many of my friends an collaborators had recommended BlueHost.  OK!  They know  better, so here I go and begin the transition.

Without boring you with the phone calls, chats and slogging through the menus and learning the new terminology, I can tell you that I now know that my blog was with WordPress.COM!  BlueHost can only deal with WordPress.NET.  Hmmmmm.  Should that make a difference?  Apparently the answer is a resounding “YES!”

English: The logo of the blogging software WordPress. Deutsch: WordPress Logo 中文: WordPress Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The fix for this was allegedly easy.  My question is, “Easy for whom?”  Some allegedly easy steps: 1) Go to the original blog’s dashboard; 2) Export “ALL” into an XML file which, for the sake of ease, I put on my desktop; and 3) Import the file to my new WordPress blog at BlueHost.  Only the posts from July 2012 to March 2013 showed up! After 4 attempts guiding by 4 different support Techs, I let it go for another day!

“Someday” I’ll get to it.  In the meantime, I believe I’ve lost all of the followers who have gathered over the past 2 years.  Maybe it’s a good thing…..I don’t think so!