How to add categories to your Blogger blog
I used to use Blogger for my personal weblog, but switched over to WordPress.com because (a) I wanted to have categories and (b) unlike most bloggers, I didn’t want to be able to edit my template — I thought that I was becoming too concerned with how the blog looked and forgetting about how it read.
So the main feature that Blogger has over WordPress.com is that you can edit templates. WordPress.com, however, offers categories, password protection, better file uploading and wysiwyg editing, and, of course, open source coolness — and it doesn’t stamp anything garish at the top of your blog (like the navbar). And if you want all of those features as well as customizable templates/themes, your probably a pretty serious blogger. In that case, you should consider forking over a modest sum for a webhost that offers PHP and MySQL and do a custom WordPress install on your own server. I’ve done it — it’s really easy and well documented.
Anyway, I just skimmed Freshblog’s complicated three-part series on adding categories to Blogger blogs using a combination of del.icio.us and javascript. I’d like to add my own tutorial on adding categories to your Blogger blog:
- Switch to WordPress
That pretty much covers it. My one-step process will solve all of your problems. And if you’re doing a custom install, you can even import all of your old posts.
