I have started up the debugging process on the Manila to WordPress conversion process.
So far we have all members from the Manila site being created remotely, complete with WordPress style logins – which can’t be e-mail addresses. My sollution has been to take the Manila e-mail login, take the ‘@’ sign and any other non-alphas like periods etc out – making John Doe’s Yahoo address into ‘johndoeyahoocom’ for John’s WordPress login. If John was a Managing Editors, or some other level of editor, hi role on the WordPress site is set at the same operational level.
We also have all Manila New Item Departments being created on the target site, so when we post all the Manila News Items they will have the same categories on the Wordpress site.
Manila Gems, if available from the Gems static server, are being uploaded to WordPress properly and their old URLs are stored with their new WordPress orient URLs so we can do some re-direction magic on the new server. This is nice, keeps old bookmarks, links and search engine referrals working, no breakage.
More to come in the next few days. I may be able to accept a few test users to get some feedback very soon. Stay tuned.
Tags: Manila to WordPress Conversion, Userland Manila, WordPress