www.lewiz.org

So… I’ve been working on switching www.lewiz.org away from Drupal to Wordpress. Vlad has already asked why, when I’ve made such a big deal about how great Drupal is. I know it might seem odd, but lately I have a lot less time to spare keeping things up-to-date. In addition I’m also hosting my image galleries on www.fajita.org, using the gallery2 software, so I no longer need a blog that has built in galleries.

I still stand by Drupal for larger community projects, but for little me, that adds a few random thoughts every once in a while, I think Wordpress is a far more suitable piece of software.

The big challenge has been to migrate my Drupal blog entries over to the Wordpress database. However, I’ve found some really handy scripts and spent a bit of time working things out on my own, and I’m happy to say that just a few minutes ago I managed to do a more or less full import of my current blog entries… the major change from previous attempts is that I have now imported data using the correct character set: UTF8 (Unicode), which means that the random bits of Japanese, Chinese and other language of the month show up properly.

The main things I need to sort out now are:

• categories for the blog entries
• importing the comments properly (right now they all show up as being by “anonymous”, which is useless)
• calculating the comment count for each entry (trivial; the entry tuple stores the associated number of comments, instead of doing a SELECT COUNT each time it is displayed)

• figuring out how to handle the Drupal node attachments (all of the inline blog images are technically node “attachments”, which is something I’m not sure Wordpress supports natively; this will probably be the big problem to work around)

  Once that’s all sorted I should have it switched over and the old site (backed up/archived) and down to make way for the new Wordpress version.

  I might try and get things going tomorrow, if I can find the time :)

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