Alex's Adventures on the Infobahn - wordpress

Migration Complete

2020-11-15T10:45:00+00:00

As I'm sure a lot of people have found in these COVID inflected times the completion of lockdown projects is harder than originally anticipated. As the hosting platform for my old Wordpress setup gets closer to end-of-life I finally pulled my finger out to put the finishing touches on the migration and switch the DNS across. Now all I need to do is get back into the habit of posting non-process related things. Anyway welcome to the new (old) blog ;-)

Migrating again

2020-05-25T17:53:00+01:00

It's been some time since I last blogged but I have been doing some spring cleaning amongst my servers. While moving all my web content onto a new box I though I would take advantage of the fresh start to migrate away from Wordpress. While it is a fine FLOSS project it really needs quite a bit of time to keep it up to date and secure. I've decided it's much better to have a static site so I've imported all my exiting blog content into a bunch of rST and Markdown files and re-generated the site with a Python based content generator called Pelican.

So far it seems easy enough to tweak. The main challenge is ensuring the various feeds for different planets are in the same place as they would have been with Wordpress. One difference with the change is the lack of comments although I think I could probably re-enable them with some 3rd party solution if I wanted to. We shall see.

Cleaning up the tags

2010-01-17T19:17:00+00:00

When I first converted my old blog to Wordpress I used tags for all the old categories. This was probably the wrong choice as tags present more subtle meta-data about a post. After manually updating a whole bunch of posts I discovered Wordpress already has useful "Tags->Categories" and "Categories->Tags" tools to help with the clean-up. So now my tag-cloud is a little less dominated by the generic "general" and reflects the distribution of posts a little better. It remains to be seen if this is a good thing.

Migrated to Wordpress

2009-11-02T11:34:00+00:00

I've finally gotten around to migrating the blog to Wordpress. While I'm still very happy with Personal Weblog it was getting a little long in the tooth and given Livejournal's ongoing problems with syndicated feeds I thought it would be easier to host everything (including comments) on my site. You can see the very ugly migration script on github.

The one remaining thing to do is code up some re-directs in the original news.php page so the syndicated feed still slurps up something, but there is no rush I guess seeing as LJ isn't currently paying attention.

EDIT TO ADD:Well LJ may not be paying attention but I've implemented the redirect for both normal pages and RSS feeds. Old permalinks should continue to the old page.