Niels Christian's blog

When wordpress 2.7 was released I downloaded it to my computer right away.  Somehow I haven’t upgraded my blog untill now. The new wordpress should have some nice new features (i have been told), but it just do not support the old iTheme, which I have used in 2.6. Too bad, because I liked it and it was a nice theme.

Now I found something different, not really sure if I like it, but will stick with this theme for now.

For a long time (several months), I have wanted to switch my textpattern blog to a wordpress one. So I happily started installing wordpress and everything was fine. I had read somewhere that wordpress had an import function that made it easy to keep your old posts from previous blogs. That, of course, would be really nice.

After installation I found the function somewhere in the wordpress dashboard, thinking, yes finally I get rid of this messed up syntax in textpattern. But no. The function was bugged. So I was disappointed and thought that I could make the script my self, but quickly I realized how much work it actually was. I gave that up.

Time went on and I still wanted to fix it. Meanwhile WordPress had moved from version 2.3.x to version 2.5.1. Somehow the import function now works properly for textpattern databases. That done, only thing left to do was editing all the links and pictures and stuff that were written in textile (textpatterns own markup language thing). Doing that in every post and figuring out relationships between pictures and posts was a nightmare. Unfortunately some pictures were lost in this process.

I now happily write this post in this same, but renewed blog that’s converted into wordpress. The process has been cumbersome and given me some headaches on the way, but I am sure it will pay back, since the textile you had to write your posts in in textpattern was such a mess, whereas wordpress has very much focus on the usability for the blogger. Now when blogging is so much easier, I’m a happy blogger.