To anticipate and prevent
Tag, Microsoft Tag – Bad pun, I know. For a long time we were running Serendipity here on Snowulf. S9y had no built in support for tags, and as such we didn’t use them. Now that we’ve migrated to WordPress, we have the ability to use tags, so the question seemed simple enough: Should we…
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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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 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…