Wow, thanks a lot for fighting the WP export / import dragon, Dave! Losing data is of course always a pity, but I'd say that in this case regarding the new value this can be dealt with.
Friday: sounds good to me. I'll prepare the Weekly News on Thursday as usual, so I'd suggest we publish the old posts plus publish and promote the new post on friday. On 01.07.2014, at 23:08, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > After another couple hours of battling Wordpress’ undocumented XML export > format, I saw sense and did a manual-ish migration. It took a lot less than > two hours. Grrr. > > I copied across all published posts: > > - content > - timestamps (published, not last updated) > - categories > - tags (only a few posts used this) > > This means we lost: > > - authors (but this can be fixed if anybody is worried about it) > - comments :-( > - permalinks as the format is different: > > http://blog.couchdb.org/entry/apache_couchdb_1_6_0 > http://blog.couchdb.org/entry/couchdb_weekly_news_june_06 > ... > > These are all stored as drafts, feel free to review & edit if you want to. > > On Friday I’ll switch them to “published” assuming Lena is OK with that. > > — > Dave Cottlehuber > [email protected] > Sent from my Couch > >
