WordPress is up, in beta
The .com-blog is up! It turned out to be very easy to set up WordPress (the 5 minute install indeed), however…importing my older (Pivot-based) posts turned out to be a bit harder…:(
The easiest method for importing is to use a RSS-file containing all posts. Unfortunately the server of my hosting provider didn’t allow me to get all my 800+ posts into one RSS-file (the server wasn’t able to allocate enough memory to do so?!?), so I ended up using a script I found while poking around the Net.
The script did most of the work, so far, so good…some things are still broken though; links to older posts, all images, and I can only embed YouTube videos when using the classic theme. The much nicer Kubrick theme breaks cause the width of the page is not wide enough to support the vids.
As you can see, I’ve got some work to do on the layout, so I’d call the site still in beta.
I will manually cross-post on the .nl and .com blogs until everything here is fixed.
(I got here following the inbound pingback from this post; this comment probably will be caught by the moderation because of the links)
Nice to hear the import worked for you!
For battling the link rot I can recommend Jon Godleys Redirection plugin, and I have an extra plugin that translates Pivot’s image tags to “regular” image tags on the fly. It should be linked from the pivot importer page. An alternative route would be Search Regex. That does require a bit of regex knowledge, though.
Good luck!
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