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.
Yeah, WordPress is really, really nice. I’m very happy I switched to it from Blosxom.
how did you import the pLog database to wordpress database? manually or using importer script?
WordPress comes with an import that can import from RSS. After installing, visit http://yoursite/wp-admin/import-rss.php
When you imported, were you able to carry over your comments, article dates, etc?
I’ve been having several problems.
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!
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
You know that thing about sense of humour.
If you ain’t got it then you won’t get it.
Keep it up…