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After experimenting with running a Blogger blog side by side with this WordPress blog for a while, it became clear to me that after eight years it was time to quit using WordPress and go back to Blogger.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0WordPress works best for longer posts where more advanced features on things like formatting and image galleries are needed. Because the home feed is just displaying the featured image and the few first lines of text, it is ideal for displaying a selection of full length blog posts.<\/b><\/p>\n

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What WordPress is not so good for is short posts with just one or two images or one line of text. Used like that it rapidly becomes cluttered, and because you need to click on each post to actually view it, it just doesn’t work well for quickly looking at dozens of short posts (AKA. “shitposts” or “tweets”)<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/b> That is where Blogger comes into it’s own, it’s ideal for doing short posts, where the homepage displays each post in full, and you can scroll down a long stream of short posts that all seem to merge into one.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>Two main drawbacks of Blogger are that all these short posts go pretty much unseen in search engines so it’s unlikely many people will ever see them, and because Blogger is owned by Google there is always the risk that they will one day blacklist my blog or even delete it altogether. They do seem to be manipulating the traffic, as the hits are very inconsistent. But they are black listing my WordPress blog as well, so that doesn’t really mean much any more.
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So my plan is to only keep posting on WordPress until the end of 2023, and then make this FROT blog an archive and move fully over to my new Blogger blog: www.sift.co.nz<\/a>
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I don’t want to call my posts “shitposts” (because everything I post is awesome!), or “tweets” because Elon Musk is a dickhead and Twatter sucks balls, so I decided to tag my short posts “SIFTINGS”. My plan is to backup all my short posts on Blogger, once a month, into a single document that I’ll save offline in case Google ever decide to delete my Blogger account.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And that is the plan behind my new “siftings” tag.
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\u00a0A prototype SIFTINGS compilation post is here: https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/funny\/siftings-from-june-2023\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After experimenting with running a Blogger blog side by side with this WordPress blog for a while, it became clear to me that after eight years it was time to quit using WordPress and go back to Blogger. \u00a0WordPress works best for longer posts where more advanced features on things like formatting and image galleries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[89,90,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Blogger-Or-WordPress.750.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29047,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/funny\/siftings-from-july-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":28807,"position":0},"title":"SIFTINGS #02 \u2013 ALL MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM JULY 2023","date":"July 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"THIS IS MY SECOND COMPILATION OF MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM BLOGGER My plan of continuing to use my WordPress blog for full length posts, while also doing short random posts on my www.sift.co.nz Blogger blog is going well, and this is my second monthly compilation post of them. https:\/\/sift666.blogspot.com\/ HERE\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "FUNNY"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bubbles-what-the.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":29431,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/blogging\/what-is-a-quickie\/","url_meta":{"origin":28807,"position":1},"title":"WHAT IS A QUICKIE?","date":"September 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0According to Wikipedia, a QUICKIE is sexual intercourse that a couple may engage in when the time available is minimal. 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