Migrated to Blogger Beta

I just finished migrating my Blogger blog to the new Blogger beta. According to Blogger beta, it provides more robustness and new features. The old Blogger was from when Google acquired Blogger around 3 years ago or so. That explains why there were those Blogger woes that I couldn't publish. So, I'm trying out the new Blogger beta.

What I found out from the new Blogger beta is that I can see all the comments. I didn't know that I had comments from people and since I enabled moderation then I have to approve them. But from the old Blogger, I had no clue how to approve them. In WordPress, it's easy there's a section on Comments and Moderation, but I couldn't find the equivalent in Blogger. So, I just finished spending some time to approve comments and respond to people, so apologies for that. And guess what? Finally, Blogger beta has that capability of adding tags or labels, I've been waiting for that! So far, I've been tagging using Technorati.

I'm going to keep trying out this new Blogger beta. Another new thing, I've found out is word verification for your posts and allowing of reader comments or not. If you haven't migrated, when you login to Blogger, you will see a message that says you can migrate to Blogger beta. It will preserve your existing format and blog entries, however they do mention that if you have third-party services, then you may need to update the links as it may not work. Also, this is important, you can't switch back to the old Blogger once you've migrated. You have to then login using your Google account, and you'll get an e-mail to say when Blogger beta has successfully migrated your blog.

On Technorati: Blogger beta, blog migration