In trying to import my blogger posts and comments into wordpress.com, I missed a very important step - back up blogger template - and it caused my template to be replaced with ‘Please use a better blogging system and wordpress.com’!!

Since about 5pm yesterday, when I realized that there was a problem, I have been frantically trying to recreate my template. Not the basic stuff like the layout and such, but the customization that I had put in.

Thanks to google cache, I was able to get most of the stuff. The only thing that was tough to recreate was the Tagging part. And that too, I was able to get from the cached page, but there were no variables. The cached page was for a particular post, so the variables (or blogger meta tags) had been instantiated. So I had to guess a bit, and decipher a bit, but I think I finally have it now.

A very important lesson learnt - don’t mess with blogger template without making an explicit back up copy of it.

Phew! That was close.