On the weekend I finally decided to shutdown my old blog (it was under http://dl.nibble.bz/~archangel). I'd started in in early 2003 and sortof just build my own code. Needless to say, it was very simple with basic "categories" features for links and I built my own archives system, syndication, everything. Well, WordPress also started in 2003 and it now has all these features and they work better and are richer. And their code is maintained.
Moving to WordPress is certainly simple. It imports blogs from many different formats including RSS 2.0 which is a widely accepted standard for blog syndication. Since I'd already built a feed for my blog, but in Atom, I simply had to covert my code to generate RSS 2.0 and then have it pit out all my posts (about 200) into a single RSS 2.0 file.
For the switch to RSS 2.0, I just pulled an RSS 2.0 feed from WordPress. I then used the old copy & paste coding to make a syndication script which produced similar output. Then I debugged by running my output through the W3C Feed Validation Service.
Once my RSS 2.0 was validating, I made the script spit out the full content for all my posts rather than the usual 20, went into WP and just imported it and it took them all just fine.
And now, here we are!
- Arch
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