The archive is back! Thank christ for that. I thought for a while that eight months of blogging had amounted to nowt. Actually, what I thought was that I would just never get around to dealing with the problem and would then give up on it, or I’d have to be ripped off by someone to take the xml file and do it for me.
It’s not all good news though. In fact, there are two items of very bad news. One, I have lost all the comments. Which is infuriating. They are in the xml file but I haven’t figured out how to get them into WordPress as yet. I wasted an hour researching it and then decided I just had to put up with that at this moment.
Hopefully I will come across something soon and then can go back to the XML file and re-run them.
And secondly, and hugely frustrating, is the fact that WordPress provides different URL for blogposts. I have to say I much, much prefer Blogware date approach i.e. https://www.kierenmccarthy.co.uk/blog/ _archives/2006/5/12/1953059.html. Now the URLs are: https://www.kierenmccarthy.co.uk/?p=13.
But the big problem is that there is nothing at the other end of the all the links all over the Net linking to my articles. Someone *must* have come up with a way of sorting this out. It can’t be that hard, surely. You just run a Google-style search of what was there and then a search of what is there now and connect the links together.
I better try to find one soon of the Google cache will die and with it all hope of making a seamless link.
I apology btw if this in incredibly boring, but I am writing this while blog entries are importing into WordPress just to keep myself sane.
Massive thanks as well to this very simple tool for removing line breaks. It is incredibly easy and fast and it saved every one of mine blog posts from having
horrible breaks in the
middle of lines like this.
I also have to add in all the bloody pictures and my MP3 files. What a hassle. But I’m going to do all that on sime rainy Sunday when I’m hungover I think. I’ve had enough of faffing about with blogs with a good time.
Incidentally, if anyone has any advice or tips, please do post them. I’ll do a boring but incredibly useful guide to moving from Blogware to WordPress at somepoint soon to save others from having to go through this in future.
Martin McNulty
May 21, 2006 at 12:53 pmHi Kieren,
Not sure if this is flexible enough to completely solve your link problem, but I used the options in WP-admin, Options, Permalinks to change the links on my site from http://martinmcnulty.co.uk/?p=13 to my much preferred format http://martinmcnulty.co.uk/2006/03/18/more-server-stuff/.
Good luck!
Kieren
May 22, 2006 at 12:19 pmTerrific, cheers Martin. I have changed it. And then I had to change the redirect files I stuck in an .htaccess file to connect my old blog posts to this one.
I didn’t have time to check out WordPress properly before I had to migrate everything over. When I have a moment I’ll go through the whole thing properly.
And I think high up on that list we be making the comments slightly better.
Anyway, thanks, I much much prefer the date format.
Kieren
Armand
May 23, 2006 at 10:20 pmAm sure you’ve found the Wiki already; was invaluable to me when I migrated over from Blogger. Got to say, though, I just [sic] wrote off the content I’d lost rather than wait for a rainy Sunday…
As far as moving stuff over comments wise, not sure if that’s something you can do using MySql? You’d need someone better than me to help with this, though…
Kieren
May 24, 2006 at 10:10 amYes, except the Wiki link for Blogware is dead. I found most of the post at a different site and it definitely helped make the difference. But it wasn’t that well explained and it missed important pieces of information.
I’ll do my own guide later. Probably as soon as I’ve found out how to do the comments.
Cheers
Kieren