Migrated to WordPress!
Hello! Well, if you’re reading this, then you look at my blog, and you might notice that its looking a bit different today. I’ve migrated the whole thing from pLog to WordPress 1.5. For those of you wondering why, here goes:
- WordPress in freaking beautiful. I mean really, check out how good this thing looks. The administration interface is as nice, possibly nicer.
- Automatic support for blogrolls
- Builtin support for “links” and “pages” that are easy to author.
- Support (WordPress is very well supported by the community, and seems to be a much more well maintained project than pLog)
- Trackbacks interface placed right in post creation
- Cool “Press It” bookmarklet that will automatically redirect to login with the right trackback.
- Wonderful selection of themes
The list just goes on and on! Now, I’ll need to spend some time making a really nice WordPress theme (or maybe just downloading one).
If you want to be a “good RSS citizen” then you should update your RSS browser to point at the new RSS feed location thats specified on this page. I haven’t added redirectors for Atom or other syndication formats, so hopefully I’m not abandoning anyone.
April 22nd, 2005 at 9:15 pm
Yeah, WordPress is really, really nice. I’m very happy I switched to it from Blosxom.
May 26th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
how did you import the pLog database to wordpress database? manually or using importer script?
May 26th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
WordPress comes with an import that can import from RSS. After installing, visit http://yoursite/wp-admin/import-rss.php
August 5th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
When you imported, were you able to carry over your comments, article dates, etc?
I’ve been having several problems.
August 9th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Unfortunately, all the old posts came through with the date of the day that I imported them. So, no, it didn’t really do the right thing. I think it might have lost comments as well, but I wasn’t too concerned about that. Good luck!
October 16th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Hello Slacy,
I just have a question about the file: import-rss.php. I was wondering path did you use to pull up the RSS from Plog? It’s saying to modify that import-rss.php file, but I’m not sure where the path is for Plog or what it is. Like yourself, I want to make the switch from Plog to WordPress…but it’s hard. And it will be even harder to manually re-add over 150 posts all over again. (sigh) Thanks for your time..
Twisted
July 13th, 2007 at 10:41 am
You know that thing about sense of humour.
If you ain’t got it then you won’t get it.
Keep it up…