2006.09.21

Old Content Now Imported!

As most of you will know, I used to run my blog at http://sp.ookee.com. I migrated to this domain at the beginning of the year. I had been looking for methods to bring over the content, tried a few things, and finally gave up; none of it was working as I expected it to and I didn’t have the time or patience to diddle and specifically learn PHP.

My friend Jason had a similar initial setup; an old Blosxom blog and a new Wordpress blog. Being a much more tech-savvy netizen than I, he figured out all the tricks for migrating and at long last posted up how he did it. What follows is a personal note to him…

Jason, you so absolutely rock! I had been trying this and trying this over and over again, with the same script, to no avail. At one point I actually did get it to import a single category, but I saw the comments still said zero and assumed the comments weren’t brought over. I gave up.

Your SQL statements are the saving grace. Absolutely brilliant and, as I really am clueless about databases, very necessary.

Thank you!

I’ve brought over most everything and if you goto the categories or the archives you’ll see it’s a lot. I will have to go through most everything and find broken picture links, hard-linked references to posts on the old site, and fix a few categories. It will be fun to read all the old material while I’m cleaning house. Feel free to browse!

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3 Responses to “Old Content Now Imported!”

1. Jason Clark says  (September 21st, 2006 at 17:25:19 )

   Glad it was useful, and sorry it took so long. I’ve been meaning to do what you’re doing… go through the whole site, read the old posts (over 300… wow!) and make sure everything is working. Just haven’t found the time.

   Congrats on a successful import!

2. Mookee says  (September 23rd, 2006 at 09:53:23 )

   This guy Jason knows more than you about this sort of thing? …

   I’m scared.

   Very scared.

3. douglas says  (September 23rd, 2006 at 10:45:58 )

   Don’t be afraid! Come out of that corner you’re hiding in! It will be alright. Jason is just a very smart guy, he’s not dangerous… yet.