To anticipate and prevent
For those who may or may not have heard, Recent Changes Camp 2010 in Montreal is coming up really soon, specifically June 25-27. It starts just 7 days from today! It saddens me to say that I can’t go, but it should be super exciting. I went to RCC2008 in Palo Alto and it was…
While this isn’t strictly part of the migration process from S9y to WordPress, I decided to take some advice I read on the net and change the prefix for WordPress tables. Most use this feature for when they have to share a database, but the suggestions I read said to do it to help prevent…
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I was working on a friend’s computer this last weekend and I ran into a problem where her Kingston DataTraveler 16 GB suddenly stopped working on her Windows 7 Home Premium PC. My netbook, Eek, is currently running Windows 7 Ultimate and recognized it just fine. This was only the start of the USB problems.
For many, many years, my printer of choice has been an HP LaserJet 5. It is possibly one of the best printers ever made.
So the second most important thing to for a S9Y to WordPress migration, after you import the posts, is to make sure as many of the old links work as possible. It doesn’t actually require all that much work to get 90% of the old links working. With Apache & mod_rewrite you can be up…
The first thing you need to do in migrating from Serendipity to WordPress, is to move the post content. Luckily for all of us, at some point in time an importer was written (and shared). It has floated around the internet for a while and been updated a number of times. The version I used…