{"id":2480,"date":"2014-08-17T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2014-08-17T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T15:22:21","slug":"another-migration-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/another-migration-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Another migration to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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43\/365<\/a> by krystian_o Attribution License<\/p>\n

TL:DR\u00a0<\/strong>I’ve just migrated my blog, please let me know if you find broken things and I’ll try and fix them.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the glowblogs<\/a> migration project I am involved in professional I’ve been working on a wee migration of my own. For the past nine years I’ve been blogging using pivot (later pivotx<\/a>) this weekend I’ve moved to WordPress.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/h3>\n

I started using pivot back in 2004<\/a> as my class blog mainy because it did not need a database on the website and then that cost a bit more. I stuck to it as I found it easy to theme, and adapt for various classroom projects. It seemed fairly natural to use the same system myself.<\/p>\n

Pivotx seems to be changing<\/a> but quite slowly, the promise of pivot 4 was from 2012.<\/p>\n

I’ve been attracted to several interesting WordPress technologies and plugins and now use it for edutalk<\/a>, ScotEduBlogs<\/a> and my ds106 blog<\/a>. The feedwordpress plugin is of especial interest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A wish to eat my own dog food given I am promoting WordPress for glow.<\/p>\n

How<\/h3>\n

Originally I though of turning the whole site\/domain to WordPress, to include my ds106 blog: 106 drop in<\/a>, but that looked a wee bit to tricky at the moment. I also have a bunch of straightforward html pages and experiments which I want to leave in place. Also there are a few challenges to moving the pivot posts to WordPress that seemed enough for now.<\/p>\n

There is not a simple pivotx imported for wordpress, I found Migrating your blog from PivotX to WordPress | filmvanalledag<\/a> which looked as if it was a near fit, but missed out tags and comments. I’ve also been using disqus comments for my blog but wanted to move to standard ones without losing disqus.<\/p>\n

That filmvanalledag post gave me a great start with example.org\/?feed=rss&c=*&n=10000<\/code> I used this to download the rss feed for all of my posts (>800).<\/p>\n

I decided that the RSS import would lose all my tags and comments so went for another approach. I have a bit of experience with kludging<\/a> together a standard WordPress import from other things. This is probably of little interest to anyone but myself, but briefly I use SuperCard<\/a> to creat a simple pseudo database of the rss add in the missing keywords by downloading them directly from the database and then manipulate it into a wordpress friendly format, for example getting the tag list like this:<\/p>\n

uid,\"tag\",\"contenttype\",target_uid\r\n2533,\"assessment_is_for_learning\",\"entry\",1132\r\n2535,\"blogging\",\"entry\",1133\r\n2537,\"scotedublogs\",\"entry\",1135\r\n2536,\"newyear\",\"entry\",1135<\/code><\/pre>\n
Directly from the database and turning it into:<\/p>\n
<category domain=\"post_tag\" nicename=\"glowscotland\"><![CDATA[glowscotland]]><\/category>\r\n<category domain=\"post_tag\" nicename=\"glowscot\"><![CDATA[glowscot]]><\/category>\r\n<category domain=\"post_tag\" nicename=\"blogging\"><![CDATA[blogging]]><\/category>\r\n<category domain=\"post_tag\" nicename=\"wordpress\"><![CDATA[wordpress]]><\/category>\r\n<category domain=\"category\" nicename=\"wwwd\"><![CDATA[wwwd]]><\/category>\r\n<category domain=\"category\" nicename=\"jj\"><![CDATA[jj]]><\/category><\/pre>\n
For each post.<\/p>\n
I tested the import of my export on a local version of wordpress and also worked out some htaccess stuff.
\nMy old blog links were like this: http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2462<\/em> and wordpress expects this http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p<\/strong>=2462<\/code>.<\/p>\n
It took me a fair bit of googling and testing to get something that worked, although not quite correctly, http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/?e=2464<\/a> once I turned on pretty links goes to http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blag\/what-is-openness\/?e=2464<\/em>, not removing the ?e=2464, ?p=2464 works properly. Once tested I created a new WordPress on the site, at \/blag, set it up, did a little more testing and have just moved it to \/blog after changing the urls in the General Settings Screen.<\/p>\n
The other main problem was that I was using disqus for my comments on the old blog and being a packrat I did not want to leave them behind. So I’ve added a bit of logic to this new blog where older posts will display the disqus form and any comments but going forward I’ll use the standard WordPress ones. I can’t see any way to import the old disqus comments into WordPress at this point.<\/p>\n
There are more things to fix, and I’ll try to pick these up as I go along. After that I’ll be looking to play around with some wordpress plugins and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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