June 14, 2005
Switching to WordPress
You might have noticed that the site was down last Friday. Looks like a flood of trackback ping spam caused Movable Type to bring down the server. This is the second time that my blog has brought down the server, and my cousin (who runs it) can’t afford this to happen again. I’d already been thinking about moving to WordPress, as I know Courtney, Jon, and Jonas have all recently switched and are pretty happy with it (the alternative would be to upgrade to MT 3.0, but most of the commenting systems look screwed up on the 3.0 blogs that I’ve seen). And since my Poli Sci class is over, I guess now would be a good time.
So bear with me in the next week or two as I figure out how to transition everything over. The site URL will stay the same, so there’ll be no need to update your bookmarks or anything. However, do note that trackback pings here will be disabled until everything’s done, to avoid any further server mishaps. Since I’ve already throttled comments, I’ll leave them enabled for now (most of my spam lately has been trackback spam anyway).
Hopefully, this will all be seamless to you, but I just figured I’d letcha know.
June 14, 2005 08:06 PM in Blogging | PermalinkW00t! WP reprahzent!
The transition is totally simple, IMHO. It didn’t take me long at all to make the switch when I did so last year :)
Posted by courtney at 06/15/05, 03:36 PM (link)Heh, cute!
Well, the main difference is that you weren’t moving your old entries, and I definitely want to move mine. Since the individual archive links will be different, I’ll need to update all my intrablog links (I guess I’ll do a find & replace on the exported entries from MT before I import them). I’m also very intent upon putting up redirect pages from all the old pages to the new pages.
But it’s just a matter of time. My cousin actually already installed it for me (he’s apparently done that plenty of times already), and I’ve got a skeleton of a site up already. And I’ve also installed the Textile-2 plugin, which was a must-have for the import to work (although I’ve noticed some minor weirdness). So I’m well on my way. I do love the UI.
Posted by fling93 at 06/15/05, 03:56 PM (link)True that I didn’t migrate them to my new blog, but I did migrate all my old posts to a separate archive, and upgraded it to WP. That wasn’t hard at all. I did a global search/replace on internal links for those entries.
Posted by courtney at 06/16/05, 10:49 PM (link)Oh, that’s right. I forgot about that! Well, that’s really good to know. Thanks!
Posted by fling93 at 06/16/05, 11:25 PM (link)Least lots have made the MT -> WP transition…should have tried the EE -> WP one. That was the most painful two weeks of my life, but I’m sooo glad I moved. And now I know why I haven’t been seeing you’re rss updates ;)
Posted by sQurl at 06/19/05, 09:08 AM (link)Yeah, that a lot of people have gone through this was definitely a factor in my choosing WordPress. I’m not enough of a tinkerer to want to strike out on my own.
Uh, since I haven’t moved anything yet, the lack of RSS updates is probably actually due to the lack of updates altogether. :)
Or are there entries on the blog that you don’t see in the feed? Not that I’ll bother to fix anything, given that I’m moving the whole shebang anyway…
Posted by fling93 at 06/20/05, 11:52 AM (link)I hadn’t seen any…on the other hand…could be my rss reader that’s busted…not like I’ve had a lot of time to spend reading stuff lately.
Posted by sQurl at 06/21/05, 12:38 AM (link)floss might not be interesting, but it sure comes in handy when you need it ;)
Posted by Robin at 07/31/05, 01:17 AM (link)Well to be sure, I didn’t say that it wasn’t interesting, just that I thought the story behind the tag would be more interesting. Like maybe it labeled posts that Hugh considered to be good for brain flossing, to get in between those pesky little crevices in the cerebral cortex to dig out useless gunk like knowing Lindsay Lohan’s bra size (which I don’t know, by the way — she doesn’t even wear bras, does she?).
Posted by fling93 at 08/01/05, 11:10 AM (link)