Transferring Blog

I am in the process process of transferring my blog from WordPress.com to a hosted WordPress account with GoDaddy.com. I am doing this so I can have more control over the content I use and will be able to employ Java Scripts within my site. WordPress.com is a great tool, but it does have its limitations. If you are unable to access my blog at the domain www.cenotebook.com for a day or two, you can still access it at cenotebook.wordpress.com.

Progress Update - Morning

After a couple of hours of work, I am getting close. Here's some issues I have to resolve:

• A couple of the images didn't transfer correctly
• The dates are showing as 2 July 2008 instead of July 2, 2008
• I'm not sure where the "Read More" and "Edit Post" buttons are coming from
• The Sidebar elements are not showing correctly (e.g. links, etc.)

Progress Update - Afternoon

Starting to work out the bugs:

• The dates are now displaying correctly. This was some php code in the page template.
• Removed the "Read More" and "Edit Post" buttons. Page template.
• Sidebar elements are displaying correctly.

Here are some issues that still need resolved:

• I use Live Writer to compose my blog posts and publish them. Right now Live Writer is not transferring the author information or the categories.

Final Update

Most of the issues have been resolved in the transfer from a blog hosted at WordPress.com to the same blog running on WordPress hosted on my own account. Overall, it was a pretty simple transfer with only a few hitches.One issue I cannot resolve is the publishing issue with Windows Live Writer. For some reason, WLW does not play well with this version of WordPress. Whenever I publish an article, if I go back and edit the article, it publishes a duplicate.Solution: I'll use the editor built into WordPress right now. It's not worth the time it would take to solve this issue. If you know of an easy solution, let me know.Chris