{"id":10123,"date":"2010-02-20T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.133.241.42\/~curtjest\/curtjester\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2010-02-20T03:04:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T03:04:34","slug":"blog-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/02\/blog-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have now moved over to a new server from the great folks at CyberCatholics.com<\/a> along with changing my blog from my old publishing system of Movable Type to WordPress.<\/p>\n

I have spent just about every waking moment I could spare to make this transition over the last week and a half and am quite glad to have the major stuff done and to get more than just 5 hours sleep!. \u00a0The blog theme is fairly close to the my previous blog design, but does have some new features such as including a theme to make it easier to read on a mobile phone. Plus commenting should be much better now than in the past when double-posts were common and it would not remember your logon. Plus I am implementing a rotating banner so that it will change the header banner graphic and not just display a static image.<\/p>\n

For myself I am quite glad to get away from Movable Type as my publishing platform. \u00a0Over seven years ago when I started this blog, Movable Type was the best platform. \u00a0Over the years though I have encountered difficulties with it in that it was hard to upgrade and you always had to pray it wouldn’t kill data – though it still did anyway. \u00a0I dreaded though making the transition to another platform knowing I would face all kinds of problems.<\/p>\n

When you have been blogging close to eight years and have accumulated around 7,000 posts and 50,000 some comments (not spam) I expected roadblocks and encountered them. \u00a0For one Movable Type would not export my whole blog and would choke after exporting around 50 megs of text. \u00a0I had to use a custom template and then spit out the contents in 25o post chunks. \u00a0Bringing this into WordPress was also problematic in that it would not take the whole file even though I had WordPress installed locally. \u00a0Right now using WordPress’s Export Tool it also won’t export my whole blog. For WordPress users I would recommend the Advanced Export Tool Plugin<\/a> which gave me much more control of exports and the ability to export all of my content.<\/p>\n

I also had to massage the data in my export file to change date formats and of course urls to media.<\/p>\n

One thing that did make the transition easier was a program called MAMP<\/a>. MAMP let me install Apache, MySQL, and PHP on my Mac within minutes and then quickly I was able to do a basic WordPress install on my harddrive. \u00a0This was great because I was able to design and fully implement my new blog without dealing with FTP or other methods on a web host provider. \u00a0It was so much easier to develop the css\/php\/etc files used in my theme this way and to quickly troubleshoot problems.<\/p>\n

So far I am quite happy with WordPress since it pretty much allows me to do what I want to do and the interface is fairly easy to use. \u00a0There is also a very active plugin community and so as a geek I will enjoy looking for plugins to add to my site that I find useful.<\/p>\n

I would also like to thank Joshua LeBlanc of CyberCatholics.com<\/a> for the prompt assistance when I needed it and for welcoming my blog to his hosting. \u00a0For affordable web hosting with great service I would send you there way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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