Monday, November 10th, 2008

Very Drupal Post

The fact I seldom write on my own blog has caused me to actually forget the password. Fortunately I have a weird habit(?) of being able to remember every password (and even combination lock number) I've ever used since childhood and so I went through them one by one till I got in. I'm sure [...]

Monday, September 1st, 2008

MomEx Wordpress to Drupal Migration 80% done

My todo list today (x means done):
x backup momex db
x backup momex files (everything)
x create mom1 (backup of wp)
x make mom1 work
x activate zen / momex
x activate offline mode
x download momdrupal in delayed inserts (works with bigdump)
x delete all modules in stock momdrupal
x copy all modeuls in 192momdrupal
x upload all modules from 192momdrupal to new [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Almost There

I've managed to migrate MomEx posts, which run on Wordpress, to Drupal 5.9 on my test server. Whoopee!

I used Wordpress Import, a pretty powerful tool which is still in development mode. On the surface it's a straightforward process of installing the module, uploading your Wordpress .wxr file and then mapping out which posts are 'owned' [...]

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Assessing A Planned Move from Wordpress to Drupal

I need to write this down to serve as a list in determining a mass migration of my sites from Wordpress to Drupal, so I'll just blog it right? I'll start with a list of a few Wordpress issues I am frustrated with, off the top of my head:
Asides: I wanna show posts (or post [...]

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

About Drupal, The most annoying thing about moving blogs, and another project idea

The most annoying thing about moving blogs is that I'd have to do all my links, all the stuff in my about page, the categories and all that other stuff all over again.
It's taken me a long time to decide which free blogging place to use and although wordpress.com has its limitations, it's certainly less [...]