Yeah, I converted, and it was crazy easy with the importers they have now. Beating this beast into a form more pleasing to myself, though, is going to take a bit longer.
Already I don’t like that all of the posts I imported without a specific title defaulted to their unix timestamps. I found a couple of places where I was able to hack it into displaying something else instead of the ugly 18-digit number, but I’ve yet to find the silver bullet that will fix this problem everywhere titles show up in wordpress (which is a lot of places). If anybody could point me at the specific function in wp, it’d be appreciated.
One success story so far is that I got category lists to use proper grammar. This is why below you will see this post is tagged “wordpress, hacks and php” instead of “wordpress hacks php”. The relevant function is get_the_category_list, ask me how if you’re interested. And yes, I really am this anal about small details like that.
Further updates as events warrent.
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Am I correct in assuming that this was formerly a blogger blog? I have also been wanting to make the jump from blogger to wordpress. I was just wondering what method you used to transfer over. It seems like there are a few out there. Other than that, good job on the site, looks great. And in the spirit of the wordpess blogs, I guess I’ll be looking forward to the Adwords.
Yeah, it was a blogger blog. I flirted with wordpress for a while, and the import pains were high on my list of reasons to hold off. But! They now have this nifty importer right in the default install that just asks for your blogger username & password, and takes care of things from there. Awesome.
Aside from, y’know, the ugly unix timestamp titles on posts that come through from blogger without a set title. When I started using blogger, there was no such thing as a post title. And it was called Pyra. But I digress.