I’m very, very tempted to remove all my handcoded, static archives, and slowly, LABORIOUSLY, enter them into WordPress so my archives are all in one place (and I can fix any posts that are essentially dead or no longer suitable). The post numbers will be all fucked up, but I’m not about search engine-friendly URLs on this bloog anyway, so it doesn’t matter (or maybe I should do the nice permalinks thing just because I can).
Anyone at all think this is a good idea? With my rather panicked crafting of various swap items and birthday presents, WOX once a week (yes, it’s baaaccckkk, I’m going to start helping out as editor at large), and potential general not-very-manual labouring on the house project, deciding to move my static archives to WordPress seems dead foolhardy.
However.
Manually re-formatting the archives is a serious pain in the arse (if you look at what’s there at the moment, you’ll see they’re all over the fucking shop), and I am currently obsessed with reworking the site so as much of it is powered by WordPress as possible (fewer re-design headaches). I’m going to have to redo all the image URLs, though. That’ll be fun.
Comments
21 June 2007
01:44
Kristen
what’s the WOX revival story?
21 June 2007
03:04
Terry
WaaaaaasssOooooonnnnnXeeeiaaaamennnnnnnnnn!
21 June 2007
09:09
andrea
Kris, basically I sold the domain to people I like, who I know will put the goals of the site and, dare I say it, brand, before profit. So they re-developed the backend (and frontend), and asked me to come on board to help out, so I said okay. They have come to an agreement with the print magazine on content-sharing, so hopefully things will work together.
Terry, you broke the box. Looks like I need to sort out the overflow of the box.
21 June 2007
19:40
Jeff Trull
Format conversions? Sounds like an excellent opportunity to learn a scripting language. How do you feel about Perl?
I googled “wordpress perl” and got a ton of hits, so there may be plenty of canned stuff for you to leverage.
22 June 2007
03:04
Kristen
oh, good. a happy story.
22 June 2007
08:46
andrea
Jeff, can you really take handcoded HTML and send it to populate a WP database easily? I searched with the same terms just now, and… too daunting, it seems.
Also, if I manually move the archives, I can check which entries I don’t want to see the light of day again! And fix the image references.
Kris, yeah. Finally.
22 June 2007
23:11
Terry
IwasjustcurioushowlongIcanmakealine
[snip]
yeah, I can be an arsehole
Oh look, I’ve edited your comment.
24 June 2007
03:11
Derek
THe WOX site looks cool. Better than many corporate sites.
BTW, how are you 2 getting on up north? Haven´t heard from you guys in ages.
I don´t know how you can be arsed to do all the moving to WP. Sounds like a royal pain in the ass. But then, I´m too lazy to even update my own webs(h)ite!
25 June 2007
08:47
Andrea
Delboy, I was going to send you an e-mail, giving you an update.
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