Hello,
I've been a thoroughly happy COREBlog user for more than a year but while I never had any complaints about COREBlog's functionality per se I did become increasingly frustrated with the fact, that I was essentially creating (and increasing) a gap between my blog content and the rest of my site and so, a couple of weeks ago I jumped the fence and switched my personal blog[1] to Quills.
Please understand that I by posting this script here I don't mean to impyl any defect with COREBlog but simply thought, that perhaps some of you, would like to take a look at Quills[2] and see for themselves, how their existing content looks in it.
you'll find all necessary links in my blog entry, here's the relevant snippet:
--snip-- The script has the following features:
- migrates entries including __comments__ and __talkbacks__ (preserving date and author)
- automatically creates __categories__ as needed
- generates copy-and-paste ready `RewriteRule` statements for accessing the migrated entries via their old URL
and the following caveats:
- new entries are owned by the user running the script: owners of group blogs will have to extend the script to handle ownership
- while new entries will initally have a preserved modification date, this will be lost as soon as they are published. They will show up with correct dates in the archive but search results will show them being last modified when published. If you don't like that, you'll have to add the publishing process to the script and _then_ set the modification date to the original value.
- I haven't figured out how to distinguish open from closed comments and trackbacks in COREBlog, so the script migrates _all_. If you've got lots of comment/trackback spam in your COREBlog instance that you've simply closed instead of deleting it (like myself) you'll either want to add state-awareness to the script or clean up your COREBlog instance _before_ migrating.
- while in theory COREBlog can handle multiple categories per entry I never managed to create entries with more than one, so that's all this script handles, too.
--snap--
best regards,
tom
[1] http://tomster.org/blog/archive/2005/04/22/migrating [2] http://developer.etria.com/projects/quills/ -- tom lazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tomster.org
-- Tom Lazar, http://tomster.org
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