It Lives!
…Or to quote the opening tagline of LoadingReadyRun’s variety show, “It’s live, so something’s gonna happen!”
Welcome to the new home of Prompted Ink!
The migration was more successful than I thought it was going to be since most of the photos made it over and the embeds (for the most part) still work. The embedded tweets show up as quotations though, but considering where that site went, it’s for the best (not to mention that it makes my job at de-Twittering the blog much easier).
I have to thank Nick Bohle over on Mastodon for suggesting that I download WordPress’s offline application, Studio, to help with the move from Blogger. With Studio, I was able to host an offline copy of the blog from the Blogger .xml file and easily export it into a WordPress .wxr so I could upload it here with little issue.
That said, there’s a lot of work to do in order to make this the proper and (possibly) permanent home of Prompted Ink. Here are some of the one’s I noticed upon skimming through old posts…
- Some of the photos aren’t displaying properly, but do link to the photo itself as stored on Blogger1.
- The YouTube embeds extend way beyond the text container, which makes them way too big for mobile but look fine on my iPad or computer.
- The text in some posts—the second trip to Boston being a prime example of this—has scrunched up spacing between words2.
…and so on. The top one’s going to be an easy fix though, and the theme I’m using has built-in support for captions so the presentation will look nice and clean.
What’s Happening to the Blogger blog?
Right now: Nothing.
I plan on keeping it up as an archive until Google decapitates the service or if they decide to take the blog down for whatever reason. The pages did not carry over so having the Blogger archive up helps me to bring that text over. Micro.blog has the category tags above the individual posts in the “Archive” page, which I plan to re-organize to make navigating to old posts easier.
I also plan on condensing the Flash Fiction tags into a separate page—more or less the “Flash Fiction Catalog” from Blogger but with the stories listed and linked. (I have something similar planned for the reviews.)
Where can I comment?
Currently, the best place I can suggest is either on Mastodon or Bluesky directly since I don’t have a proper comment system set up. The plug-in I installed allows for “Reply by E-mail”, but I don’t feel like that’s the best option. Not to mention it doesn’t exactly make a blog a proper public forum.
I might use Blogger as a workaround for this issue while I figure out an alternative.