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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…
If you regularly use SSH/Telnet from Windows, you probably use PuTTY. If you don’t use PuTTY, you either should, or your paying too much. Anyways, if you use it a fair amount you probably have saved sessions. While PuTTY doesn’t have an internal mechanism for backing up these settings, it turns out it is very easy. …
If you are seeing this, you probably realize things look a bit different around the blog. Not terribly different, but different none the less. It is slightly more than changing the theme this time, though I managed to find one that was close to what it previously was. Today’s change is slightly bigger. We’re running…
Don’t get me wrong, Serendipity is a fine piece of software. It has served this blog and my needs well for the last 5 years. I’ve talked about it a number of times over those years. I’ve even migrated away and back to S9y. The problem is, it’s starting to feel a bit dated. I’ve…
== Monday == Monday started fairly early as there was packing to be done. We decided that we wanted to get out and on the road, with any luck, by 11ish since we had 250 miles to go for the day. We managed to make it fairly close to our expected departure, but not without…