Blog Bothered
Update: Trackbacks may be working normally now. I tried one fix from the support forums, and succesfully sent a trackback to my old Typepad blog.
OK. I’m a little steamed right now. Basically, I thought I had my blogging issues ironed out with the WordPress 1.5 upgrade. Now I come to find I still have a blog that doesn’t work the way that I want it to.
The dillema is this. There is no easy, simple way to export my current content out of WordPress in a form that will easily import into another blogging platform. So, do I abandon the 2,000+ entries in this blog and start afresh elswhere? Or do I stay put and simply accept that my blog doesn’t work the way I want it to, and perhaps never will?
February 25th, 2005 at 11:28 am
Everything is transient… as a Buddhist you should know this.
If you are seriously thinking of moving to a new platform, would it be possible to move the current WordPress blog into a subdirectory and run a new blog on the main site. I don’t know what your web hosting situation is, but if you’ve got room for another mySQL database that is the option I would try. That way you can keep the WordPress site as an “archive”.
Peace.
February 25th, 2005 at 11:48 am
What happened to all your entries from your Typepad blog? Are they still there and you would then only be losing your more recent entries from when you switched to WordPress?
February 25th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
Terrance,
Come to Expression Engine, it is worth the cost… trust me…
as for exporting your entries, email me privately and lets see if we cant get a way out for you
Anything can be done, it is just how much head sweat will it take to make it happen
February 25th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
When I was moving from MT to Typepad, I was just importing a month of entries at a time. To do this, I set up a special monthly template that output everything as a text file formatted to the MT specifications instead of an HTML file.
Perhaps it would be possible to muck with the Wordpress templates enough to pull a similar trick? If so, it’d be at least theoretically possible to generate export files that are compatible with any system’s import facility.
(Details on what I did are here on my old Typepad site…they should be here, but things apparently got goofy when I went back from Typepad to MT. Something for me to fix later today…)
February 25th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Just a quick update: I fixed that page on my current site.