Tag Archives: Manila to WordPress Conversion

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Working on WPMU hosting for Weblogger

A move from Manila is long overdue for Weblogger. I’ve been working for some time on putting in to place everything I will need for a completely new Weblogger.com. So many things will be better – lots of new billing … Continue reading

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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

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