In my last post, I mentioned that I was considering moving back to WordPress. We’ll I’ve gone ahead and done it.
Unfortunately, mephisto was getting too frustrating to use, and in particular the lack of a webservice API to allowing blogging clients to post made it untenable to continue.
To effect the port I followed the instructions in this post. In general, it all went fine, and without a problem. I have noticed a few caveats which will require a bit of manual work:
- mephisto does not have the concept of a page, in the same way that WordPress does. When you convert the one post categories in mephisto, these show up as regular posts in WP. I had to manually create WP pages, and cut and past the content in.
- I will have to manually move the assets (images) over from mephisto to WP. In fact, I’ll probably move them to a 3rd party (e.g. Flickr or Smugmug), and not have to deal with porting them again.
Other than those relatively minor niggles, everything appears to have gone just fine. Many thanks to those who wrote the relevant scripts.
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Glad to be of any assistance.
Very helpful. One thing I forgot, however, was to update my account on feeddemon with the appropriate feed. Other than that, not too shabby.