Upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. Completely painless upgrade process. EOM.
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Wordpress 2.7
Monday, December 15th, 2008WordPress 2.5 joy (and K2 woes)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Version 2.5 of WordPress has been released today, and I’ve upgrade this site accordingly.
The upgrade was pretty painless, apart from a weird bug that happens if you’re (like me) using the K2 theme. Everything works, except the admin dashboard. I’ve been meaning to develop my own theme anyway, so maybe this will be impetus I need to do so.
Thy will be done: m2wp.py is released
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008After dragging my heels for a bit, I’m finally getting around to releasing my code for generating WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) files from Mephisto database.
I agreed with Stuart that it should be released regardless of demand, but it really did need some cleaning up first!
So, without any further ado, pomp, or ceremony I give you m2wp.py!
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Oh, you actually want to see the code?
- If you just want the file, you can grab it here
- If you just want to see the the code, you can see it here
- If you want to be all modern and distributed, you can grab the code using Bazaar like this*:
bzr branch http://labs.schwuk.com/m2wp
* Why aren’t I using Launchpad? Because I seriously doubt there will be any further development of this. However if people want to submit patches, they are more than welcome to and I will publish them in my repository.
A couple of caveats:
- It assumes you’re using a PostgreSQL database. If you want something different, add it.
- Due to the wonders of WordPress, you can’t have tags and categories with the same name, but you can in Mephisto. You’ll need to fix this once you’ve imported into WordPress.
- The script is released under the GPL, and all that that entails.
Why developing your own blog software isn’t always a good idea
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008David Goodwin made the following comment on my post about migrating to WordPress:
Despite every ‘web2.0′ language/framework having a ‘create a blog application in 5 minutes’ example, it’s amusing to see even a developer default to Wordpress, which is still written for php4
I can see his point, and I agree that is amusing. Of course I’m not going to miss a chance to get on my soapbox though. 
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Migrated to WordPress
Thursday, February 21st, 2008First of all, apologies for any ‘planet spam’ caused the change to my feeds.
After what seems like an eternity (but is actually just over a year) I’ve switched the backend of this site from Mephisto to WordPress. The main reason for the switch was my overall dissatisfaction with Mephisto coupled with its lack of development (or a least stable releases) along with the fact that I was maintaining a Ruby on Rails production environment for one application. Mephisto frustrated me in many ways, from its inability to handle archives/pagination to not being able to accept pingbacks to not working with external clients. All of these were fixable, but I really didn’t have the patience or the time.
Here is my tale of migrating from Mephisto to WordPress, and how I achieved it.