Tag Archives: WordPress

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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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

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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!

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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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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

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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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