Author Archives: sitemin
Manila conversion tool shakedown almost complete
I think I am ready to start the official testing phase – the shakedown is nearly complete. What’s the difference between shaking down new software and testing it? Before the hunt for the real bugs in a semi-biggy process like … Continue reading
Limits encountered on Gems exporting
No one ever told me porting Manila to WordPress was going to be this much fun! I hit a limit on my method of fetching Manila Gems (Files in later versions of Manila) and posting them proper into a WordPress … Continue reading
More pre-testing testing reveals Manila member woes
I have selected another Manila site I host, www.londonpoolscampaign.com as a pre-testing test victim and found quite more than a few of member problems. in addition to the remnants of some sort of mass member creation fiasco (lots of consistently … Continue reading
A re-think on the order of exporting and URLs
Cecil re-enforced the point about not having a good Manila glossary to render new shortcuts from the new WordPress (WP) URLs for each story discussed earlier. He’s right, and this has brought about a major shift in the process here. … Continue reading
Shaking the bush boss, shaking the bush!
I have several good clients waiting patiently to get their Manila sites moved to WordPress – don’t worry I’m smashing forward every night. My latest progress includes getting images and now stories exported with the process. I am also seeing … Continue reading
Another alternative for converting a Manila site
I got a great note this morning from Cecil Coupe introducing himself and pointing me to a site he has set up to promote another means of converting Manila to WordPress – MvManila. This is yet another approach to getting … Continue reading
Charting the process
I have chalked up a quick flowchart depicting the Manila to WordPress conversion process for the soon to be relaunched Weblogger WordPress Hosting service. Manila to WordPress Conversion PDF Enjoy!
It’s alive!
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 … Continue reading
Happy 11th Birthday Weblogger
It was on this day 11 years ago that the domain ‘weblogger.com’ was registered by me and my little hosting experiment was off and running. I am currently rebuilding all that is Weblogger and I hope we will see a … Continue reading
Old Manila URLs to new WordPress URLs
Okay, realizing there was not logical way to bring in old Manila threaded discussions was a bummer. Onward and upward. I working on mapping specific URLs from each Manila peice exported to WordPress. Stories, images etc. I am relying on … Continue reading