What the fuck is wrong with you people?
SEB makes the jump to WordPress.
After many hours of work and some 22 export files with an average of 300 entries per file (highest was 500, lowest was 150), I have successfully migrated SEB from ExpressionEngine to WordPress. I will be writing a post about how I did this which will include the templates a I used and details on all the problems that cropped up along the way. It’s far from perfect, we’re currently missing approximately 323 entries and 4,471 comments that I’ll have add in later and there were all sorts of snags along the way, but it works so long as you’re dedicated to the process. This blog is eight years old and has now transitioned from MovableType to ExpressionEngine to WordPress and there was a fair amount of crap in the older entries that needed fixing along the way.
Expect the theme to change on you over the next few days as I look for something I feel good about to use until I can find the time to learn how to whip up my own WP theme. Also if you’ve ever submitted an entry when SEB was under ExpressionEngine then you already have an account created under WordPress. The trouble is that WP doesn’t seem to have bothered to import your email addresses into your account so I’ll have to go through and edit all 91 of you to put in your email address. The account was created using whatever your Screen Name under EE was, not what you used to login to EE. So DOF, for example, already has an account as decrepitoldfool. If you think you have an account already try using the recover password option with the email address you registered with as that’s what I’ll be putting in so you can recover your passwords.
Another thing you’ll have to do is resubscribe to any entries you want to receive comment notifications from. WP doesn’t have a native comment subscription option so I’ve added a plugin that gives that functionality. You do have the option of subscribing to an entries’ RSS feed as an alternative if you don’t want to have to leave a comment to subscribe.
I’ll probably be adding more plugins over the days to come as I figure out what other functionality would be useful. If you have suggestions on themes or plugins you think would make a good fit, let me know. Or if you have an account already and want me to put in a different email address, again, let me know.
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about 4 months ago
The note above had an IMG tag when I wrote it, but threw an error:
Warning: Value for HTML.Doctype is of invalid type, should be string in /www/pmh4790/public_html/seb/wp-content/plugins/html-purified/lib/HTMLPurifier/Config.php on line 238
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/pmh4790/public_html/seb/wp-content/plugins/html-purified/lib/HTMLPurifier/Config.php:238) in /www/pmh4790/public_html/seb/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865
about 4 months ago
Interesting. It appears it’s the filter replacement that’s causing issues. OK, out it comes for now.
about 4 months ago
Hello World
about 4 months ago
Awww.. No avatar..
about 4 months ago
OK images should now be doable, along with a few other HTML tags, as I just went in and edited the kses file directly.
Legacy, you can get an avatar at the Gravatar site.
about 4 months ago
@Les… Ahhh… I gave that a thought for a second, but wasn’t sure… I was just thinking about how I was always logged in to comment on the other setup.
about 4 months ago
DOes the BBcode work for images?
about 4 months ago
D’oh!
about 4 months ago
BBCode doesn’t work yet, but I’ll be adding a plugin for it soon.
And, yes, there are advantages to having an account such as bypassing the Captcha.
about 4 months ago
Let’s try that image again …
about 4 months ago
VICTORY!
about 4 months ago
That’s odd. Your image isn’t showing up for me.
about 4 months ago
And now it’s not showing up for me. But it *was* showing up. Really! It’s not some theistic delusion!
about 4 months ago
I had to re-register. I’ve only ever had two email addresses in the last decade, and the password recovery function said neither were valid. Oh well.
Gotta redo the avatar, too.
about 4 months ago
Dave, the page source contains the image tag and if I click on the image link from there, it renders just fine.
Here’s the same image with the alt parameter set:
about 4 months ago
Interesting. Very interesting.
The image tag is there, but the rendered page displays the alt value rather than the actual image. Dave, do you have an htaccess that blocks images unless the referer(sic) header is from your own site?
Test: same image on imageshack:
about 4 months ago
I see it. Will it stay?
about 4 months ago
I used the img src tag only in my post above and the image is on Flickr.
about 4 months ago
Hmm. Yeah I know about Gravatar, but it’s not working. Also, when I tried to log in (am I doing this right?) the site did not recognize my username.
So this is a newly-created account, but all the stuff like subscribed posts and my own posts are gone.
Is thatjust a function of it be ing new software, and therefore system-wide, or is something else up?
My old photo (False Maria) worked by uploading to SEB.. I never had a gravatar..
Should I get one for it to work?
about 4 months ago
I’m suspecting ***Dave must be blocking hotlinks. Your test, Elwed, is still showing for me as is Brooks.
As an aside, I own that Ale and Whores t-shirt.
Legacy, your account shows up in the database as “legacyabq”, all lowercase and without quotes (obviously). You can either use the password reset function to change your password or I can set a default password for you and mail it to you. Your choice. And you will need to sign up for a Gravatar if you want to have one show up on your comments.
All the comments you ever left are still in the database, but you are correct that the subscriptions you had are gone. I’m looking into seeing if there’s a way to have it auto-subscribe you to any posts you have ever commented on.
One nice feature of the new subscription system is that it has a means of allowing you to subscribe without commenting, but I need to edit the template files directly to implement it.
about 4 months ago
You won’t see it unless you scroll up, but there’s now a link in the footer for every entry that allows you to subscribe to comments on that entry via RSS if you prefer. For some entries, such as the “A Christian asks…” thread, that might be preferable to email. It also doesn’t require you to leave a comment.
about 4 months ago
Oh, another missing feature: guest authors.
about 4 months ago
That’s not really missing per se, it’s just a different level of membership. I’ve not decided if I want to see if I can find a way to do it while leaving everyone as “subscriber” or just make the default membership level “contributor” which I believe would work similarly to the way I had things set up under EE.
about 4 months ago
Hrm. Yeah, you’re right — I’m probably blocking hotlinks. I thought I’d taken that off at one point, but clearly I didn’t (or put it back on). Stupid, stupid rat-creature.
about 4 months ago
Testing a comment on the new Wordpress site…
about 4 months ago
And I see the favicon has gotten updated …
about 4 months ago
Webs, moved your comment to this thread as it seemed a bit more appropriate.
***Dave, yep, updated it yesterday. I’ve been looking into the Thesis theme you’re using. I may end up paying for a developer’s license so I can use it as a foundation for all the blogs I’m running here.
about 4 months ago
I ended up doing the developer’s license because I wanted to replace the “very pretty but not terribly useful” theme I was using on my writing blog. Thesis is pretty keen, adding a layer of manageability on top of what WP can already do.
But this theme is pretty nice, at least in terms of how you’ve done it up.
about 4 months ago
That developer license is three times the upgrade fee to EE 2.0…
about 4 months ago
Yes, that had occurred to me. I only said I was considering it.
about 4 months ago
You know Les, I quite like the new look, and I know it’s a work-in-progress, but you’re pretty handy with the software man! Good job!
about 4 months ago
Hey Les, I tried to contact you by email but stupid me can’t figure it out..
Could you delete my account?
Then I’ll sign up again with my other email addy, so I can test my new gravatar account.
Plus, I’m not using the old email anymore; I shouldn;t have signed up with it.
Thanks Man!
about 4 months ago
I can do that if that’s what you want, sure. Done and done.
about 4 months ago
OK then, quick work!
Here’s a test. Thanks
about 4 months ago
No more Captcha huh?
Cool
So it displays fine for me.
Cool, thanks Les..
about 4 months ago
no offence but I like the old layout more