{"id":365,"date":"2006-08-08T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=365"},"modified":"2006-11-06T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T15:49:06","slug":"moving-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"Moving to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I finally decided to move to a more modern blogging platform. I have used Moveable Type 2.64 for almost three years, but it was time to move on:<\/p>\n

* I had turned off comments because of blog spam. But I’ve recently heard from several folks that they’d wanted to comment. I love comments and the discussion that ensues, so I wanted a more sophisticated commenting workflow.<\/p>\n

* I wanted easy support for tagging posts. How Web 2.0&#tm;!<\/p>\n

* General cruft from a 3 year old program: MT is well designed and I have had few problems with it, but I wanted to see what the current state of blogging software was.<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether I could have had such features with a more modern version of Movable Type, but it certainly seemed to me that WordPress has more mindshare, plus it’s open source. And it is supported by my ISP. So, I moved from Movable Type 2.64 to WordPress 2.0.2. I followed these fantastic directions<\/a>. and, for importing my 350+ entries with correct permalinks, I followed these directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I ran into only a few problems.<\/p>\n

* The directions on codex.wordpress.org appear to be for a slightly different version of wordpress and reference import-mt.php<\/code>, rather than mt.php<\/code><\/p>\n

* I ended up having to edit my php.ini<\/code> file to up the memory to import my 1.5 meg MT export. 10M wasn’t enough, 50M was plenty.<\/p>\n

* The directions for preserving your MT search engine entries<\/a> are great, but I ran into one problem. Because I have an old version of Apache, this RewriteRule did not work:<\/p>\n

RewriteRule archives\/0*(\\d+).html \/uri\/to\/blog\/index.php?p=$1<\/code><\/p>\n

Instead, I had to use plain old character classes:<\/p>\n

RewriteRule archives\/0*([0123456789]+).html \/uri\/to\/blog\/index.php?p=$1<\/code><\/p>\n

Her’s my entire RewriteEngine entry:<\/p>\n

RewriteEngine on\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/0*([0123456789]+).html wordpress\/index.php?p=$1\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/index.rdf \/wordpress\/index.php?feed=rdf\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/index.rss \/wordpress\/index.php?feed=rss\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/index.xml \/wordpress\/index.php?feed=rss2\r\n# http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004_10.html to\r\n# http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?m=200410\r\n\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/([0123456789][0123456789][0123456789][0123456789])_([0123456789][0123456789]).html \/wordpress\/index.php?m=$1$2\r\n\r\n# http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/weblog\/archives\/cat_books.html to 3\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_books.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=3\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_java.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=5\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_mobile_technology.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=7\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_programming.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=6\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_technology.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=4\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/archives\/cat_technology_and_society.html \/wordpress\/index.php?cat=2\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/styles-site.css \/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/ocadia\/style.css\r\nRewriteRule weblog\/ \/wordpress\/<\/pre>\n
* Users I imported, even if I gave them the Editor role, weren’t able to edit posts they owned.  I may figure this out later, but right now I just made every user an admin.<\/p>\n
So far I’ve been very happy with my decision, if for no other reason than the built-in comment moderation and the UI advances.  Let’s see if WordPress lasts for three years.<\/p>\n
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