Finally moving to WordPress. I’ve been working on this for a LONNNNNNG time but have been too busy to make the switch over. There’s still a lot of formatting kinks I need to work out, and the links for the other areas of my blog are still based on the other themes, but I wanted to get this out of the way before I go on vacation (and since my database was corrupt). Movable Type, we had a great run and I still love you, but my version was several years old (too cheap to pay for the new version) and WordPress just seems more Yano-Friendly.

Of course, the move over has not been painless - I had to export all my old entries and import them into Wordpress, which was a pretty long and exhausting process, since my webserver (or WP, but I’m thinking it’s server related) would not allow certain phrases to be imported. Trouble is, I didn’t know WHAT those phrases were. So I had to import into chunks and figure out which phrases were causing my import to error. Here’s the phrases that were giving me errors:

• Shell - Shelly, an old poster (Pridey, are you still there?) had commented often back in the day. I had to go through and change her comments to “She11y”. I’m assuming this was restricted because “shell” is used in programming
• cgi-bin - Yeah, another programming word. This was used in several links that were posted (or commented)
• ebay.com - WTF? I have no idea why this was restricted. But that’s what it was!

For anyone searching for this (because I don’t think I found any help on it…Redpac helped me figure it out), the error I got had to do with not having permission to access admin.php.

So here I am, moved to WP with still a buttload of work to do.

A couple new/improved/soon-to-be-improved things to look out for:

• We’ve got themes on the right sidebar, though not all of them are completely formatted. This (Transit or YWIM Default) should be good to go for the most part as is “Very Plain Text”. “Nebula” should be ok, but not great.
• There are top commenters listed on the sidebar. Not many comment anymore, but I kinda liked the idea. We’ll see if it lasts.
• Comments can now be “threaded” or “nested”. What does that mean? It means that you (or I) can reply to other people’s comments. I like it, it’s pretty cool.
• You can now see what category the post is grouped under within the post. I’ll be revamping my categories sometime this century, and it will help out when looking through the archives.

Uh, I guess that’s it. This is all kinda in Beta version, so if you see anything weird or something’s not working for you, please comment and let me know!

Enjoy!

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