Problem Solving with AI
When I decided to move Heartland Genealogy from WordPress to Blogger, I thought the biggest challenge would be moving the content. Instead, I've received an unexpected education in DNS records, custom domains, HTTPS certificates, RSS feeds, featured images, redirects, and social media previews . And, as has happened several times during this move, ChatGPT has served as my troubleshooting partner. The Custom Domain Adventure One of my goals was to use my Heartland Genealogy domain with Blogger. I already owned heartlandgenealogy.org , and I wanted readers to reach the Blogger site through www.heartlandgenealogy.org rather than a Blogspot address. That sounded simple. It wasn't. Blogger provided the CNAME records that needed to be added to my DNS settings. After making those changes, there was the inevitable waiting period while the new DNS information propagated. Then came the questions. Was the CNAME correct? Did I need to turn on Redirect domain in Blogger? Why did Blogger ...