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<\/p>\nSo here I am on my new Wordpress Blog which I started after attending the ProBlogger conference on the Australian Gold Coast. I went to this #PBEvent with two non-blogging girlfriends who fancied a weekend away.<\/p>\n
They say I never do things by halves and combining a girls weekend away with a blogging conference is typical of me.<\/p>\n
But you see even then, I knew that my blog was in a state of flux. I was in a state of flux. What had started primarily to share my Australian life with family and friends, had grown as these things are want to do, beyond the familiar borders I knew. My readers frequently telling me they enjoyed seeing Australia, a place they generally were unlikely to visit.<\/p>\n
Yet, my husband had accepted a job in Bangkok and we were on the move…<\/p>\n
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Why WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n There were several takeaways for me from ProBlogger 2016 but the main one was that if I wanted to progress with my blog I should move from Blogger to WordPress. It would look more established with my own domain name. I did not meet a single Australian Blogger who was on Blogspot, yet in my lovely world of Grannies in the US and UK Blogger was not untypical. Was this going to be a big mistake,<\/p>\n moving from the familiar to the unknown in my online life was mirroring my own life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I was encouraged by three things:<\/p>\n Why did it take so long?<\/strong><\/p>\n I set myself a deadline of publishing my Wordpress blog in time for PB Evolve the Problogger 2017 Conference. But my Grandmother died and I diverted back to the UK and it never happened.<\/p>\n International Start a Blog Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Since January I have joined in with the Problogger Start a Blog course. My Wordpress blog was sitting there in draft\u00a0format, I had with the help of my friend Catherine transferred many of my old Blogger posts across, but as you will see there is now a years\u00a0gap! Another Whoops.<\/p>\n This course has given me the impetus to just do it, I needed to achieve a published WP Blog as I was being to\u00a0doubt it would ever be ready.<\/p>\n It is still not ready, but now it is out there as a soft launch, I know this will encourage me to learn more skills and to tidy it up.<\/p>\n The Little Wandering Wren WordPress blog has been seventeen months in the making. Tomorrow it will look better than today, today looks better than yesterday!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Congratulations to all the other bloggers who have also published their first blogs today. Many of you are brand new to blogging. I wish you a whole lot of fun with your new blog. I hope you meet in the virtual world, and perhaps in the real world like I have too, some fabulous people to share your journey.<\/p>\n Yay made it!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here I am on my new Wordpress Blog which I started after attending the ProBlogger conference on the Australian Gold Coast. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangkok-blogger"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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