Category Archives: Manila to WordPress Conversion
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
Ruh-Roh: No place for Manila discussion group posts
Another day another quagmire in my quest to convert Manila sites to WordPress… Manila users can, and often do post item in to the discussion group as top-level threads, and then subsequent replies. Pretty typical set up for a forum … Continue reading
Little brick walls
As I have developed the new Manila site export mechanism the have been a few little brick walls I needed to break thru to keep the process moving forward. In my first pass over the requirements of this project I … Continue reading
More on moving from Manila to WordPress
In my previous post I described a one-brick-at-a-time approach for moving the content of a Manila site to a WordPress site. Just how am I planing on doing this you ask? I’m going to use yet another Dave Winer invention, … Continue reading
Exporting from Manila to WordPress
Way back in the day… Dave Winer supposed people may one day want to move from one Manila host to another – so he pioneered a feature for Manila (an ancient but solid blogging platform) that allowed for a complete … Continue reading