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Public and Private Blog: Best of both worlds
Many of you have asked about how I worked my new blog (lisaadachi.blogspot.com) with all my old posts on it from my public blog (howtosavealifeguard.blogspot.com). I've gotten so many requests I figured I might as well post about it!
I would post screen shots and link this all for you, but I'm really not feeling up to it today so I will definitely post them and link this another day but I will write out the basic steps for you.
Creating a Public AND Private blog
1) Click on your Dashboard, under SETTINGS, there is a mini tab called BASIC. This should be the very first and default tab that comes up.
2) Under BASIC, the very first heading is BLOG TOOLS. Click on EXPORT BLOG
3) You have to save your blog to your hard drive, so click DOWNLOAD BLOG
4) After you export your blog onto your hard drive (be sure to remember where you save it), Create a new blog-- this is just under your dashboard and shouldn't be too much of an issue. Make this blog a PRIVATE blog.
5) After you create your new one, you go back to SETTINGS>>BASIC>>BLOG TOOLS and then click on IMPORT BLOG
6) It's important to keep in mind that the only thing that will import are your posts (and drafts), tags, and and the comments are the things that you will have.
7) This is the hard part. If you have changed your display settings like crazy as I've done on mine, the only way you can make it look like your other (PUBLIC) blog is to copy those exact same settings onto your new blog.
8) To do this, you must go into DESIGN, then into the TEMPLATE DESIGNER and hand change all of thes e settings. I always minimize both my windows to the size of half the screen, then place them right next to each other so I can "toggle" between the screens without having to open/close. An easier way to do this is to just copy the setting (for example, the color of your text is a number code) Cntl+C, then click on the NEW blog settings and paste it directly into the corresponding box (Cntl+V).
9) The actual making the new blog actually didn't take me very long, but the editing to make it look like before was the really tricky and menial part.
10) Gadgets do not transfer, so you will also have to add new gadgets to your new blog and copy and paste the content into those as well.
11) DELETE ALL your old posts on your public blog. That way, you'll start clean, but all your content is already imported safely on your computer and on your new blog.
12) When you are done, you will be left with two beautifully and almost identical blogs. One public, and one private. I've changed a lot of things on my private blog, but for the most part they are very similar. I decided to delete all of the gadgets on the public one, and keep it mainly just an update blog.
To post:
1) Simply write a post on your PRIVATE blog, publish it, and click on the "VIEW POST" when you're done-- not VIEW BLOG. Copy the URL.
2) Go to your PUBLIC blog and post that you've posted and if you're nice, you'll include the link for people to click on! :)
Though very menial and time-consuming, I've found this to be the best method. That way, people can still see on their blog rolls if you've updated (the PUBLIC url is the one they will keep on their rolls) and not forget about you! Sometimes I post things on my public blog that I don't mind sharing with everyone, but my personal blog is just that-- personal. I share intimate stories, pictures of my family, and personal thoughts and feelings. So in order to protect myself and my family, I've decided to go this route.
Good luck with your own blogs and let me know if I can explain anything a little clearer!
Blogging is a Blessing! :)
And now you get the best of both worlds! ;)
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