Blog Migration Update
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First off, thanks so much to everyone who contacted me with advice, suggestions and offers of assistance. It really meant a lot to me.
Given how easily Doc Palmer migrated his PowerBlogs posts to WordPress despite the PB export being in Movable Type format, I think I will go with WP, as per many recommendations by you to that effect. I'll worry about the template later. I intend to experiment at the free WP site just to traverse the learning curve, but that will NOT be the permanent home of the blog. Please don't link to it.
On that subject, two new blegs:
1. For those who blog on hosted web servers (rather than free sites such as Blogger or wordpress.com), please praise or pan your hosting service as appropriate. Someone already mentioned GoDaddy. Reliability, pricing, customer support, free WP installation and new domain registration are all relevant criteria. (Again, I have about 4,200 posts, 1,000 daily hits, some need for picture storage capacity but not for extensive email accounts. I'm pretty sure I'm a $10/month sort of customer based on what I've seen.)
2. For everyone: Please take a moment and name a blog that has a template that you really like. The basis can be anything from background colors and fonts to commenting features, blogroll layout, category trees, ease of navigation, anything.
3. For those who know WP well, two questions:
--On Doc Palmer's migrated site, it seems that WP assigned new URLs to the imported blogposts based on the blog title. I think it would be very helpful to keep PowerBlogs' numerical system (e.g., "kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212628504.shtml") and just change the domain name in the URL (e.g., "www.kipesquire.com/1212628504.shtml"), at least for the imported posts. This way I can, theoretically, go back and simply replace the internal links ("see my previous post") by changing the domain name in the text files. I can't possibly do that with title-based URLs, and all the imported posts would have to point back to PowerBlogs forever. I don't care about the URLs on new posts after the migration.
--Does anyone have any idea about building post-chains in WP (such as this one)? Is there even such a feature?
4. For those who know how to "301 redirect" -- I don't have access to the .htaccess file, but assume I did. Would it take one single entry to redirect every PB post to the corresponding post (especially if I can keep the numerical URLs as mentioned above), or must I settle for only redirecting the homepage? I don't need to know how to do it, just what can be done at all.
Thanks, again, to everyone!
Given how easily Doc Palmer migrated his PowerBlogs posts to WordPress despite the PB export being in Movable Type format, I think I will go with WP, as per many recommendations by you to that effect. I'll worry about the template later. I intend to experiment at the free WP site just to traverse the learning curve, but that will NOT be the permanent home of the blog. Please don't link to it.
On that subject, two new blegs:
1. For those who blog on hosted web servers (rather than free sites such as Blogger or wordpress.com), please praise or pan your hosting service as appropriate. Someone already mentioned GoDaddy. Reliability, pricing, customer support, free WP installation and new domain registration are all relevant criteria. (Again, I have about 4,200 posts, 1,000 daily hits, some need for picture storage capacity but not for extensive email accounts. I'm pretty sure I'm a $10/month sort of customer based on what I've seen.)
2. For everyone: Please take a moment and name a blog that has a template that you really like. The basis can be anything from background colors and fonts to commenting features, blogroll layout, category trees, ease of navigation, anything.
3. For those who know WP well, two questions:
--On Doc Palmer's migrated site, it seems that WP assigned new URLs to the imported blogposts based on the blog title. I think it would be very helpful to keep PowerBlogs' numerical system (e.g., "kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212628504.shtml") and just change the domain name in the URL (e.g., "www.kipesquire.com/1212628504.shtml"), at least for the imported posts. This way I can, theoretically, go back and simply replace the internal links ("see my previous post") by changing the domain name in the text files. I can't possibly do that with title-based URLs, and all the imported posts would have to point back to PowerBlogs forever. I don't care about the URLs on new posts after the migration.
--Does anyone have any idea about building post-chains in WP (such as this one)? Is there even such a feature?
4. For those who know how to "301 redirect" -- I don't have access to the .htaccess file, but assume I did. Would it take one single entry to redirect every PB post to the corresponding post (especially if I can keep the numerical URLs as mentioned above), or must I settle for only redirecting the homepage? I don't need to know how to do it, just what can be done at all.
Thanks, again, to everyone!
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