To anticipate and prevent
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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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…
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…