I mentioned a few months ago that although I love Rapidweaver and its friendly community, I was tempted to switch to the free and ever improving blog-platform, WordPress.
Wordpress has now developed to such an extent it has become a joy to use, from the intuitive dashboard to the wonderful themes on offer.
For many weeks, however, I have remained loyal to Rapidweaver but linked it to Blogger in order to enable remote blogging, using the excellent Rapid Blog. Now, thanks to another Rapidweaver plug-in, WP-Blog by Nilrog, I am able to write this blog using WordPress.
Only slightly more complex to install than RapidBlog, it allows me to maintain my blog on the Rapidweaver site while also exploring the many tools and plug-ins that WordPress has to offer. Using WordPress and WP-Blog also allows for Disqus commenting (as does the latest update of RapidBlog). WordPress can also import Blogger posts from within its dashboard, so nothing is lost (apart from images, perhaps). Although the various widgets cannot presently be transferred to the RW page, Nilrog has said that future updates of WP-Blog will allow for this to happen.

Many thanks to all concerned.

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