Ye old, old archives, the handcoded ones
20 June 2007

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.

9 Comments

  1. what's the WOX revival story?

    Comment by Kristen — 21 June 2007 @ 2:44 am

  2. WaaaaaasssOooooonnnnnXeeeiaaaamennnnnnnnnn!

    Comment by Terry — 21 June 2007 @ 4:04 am

  3. 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.

    Comment by andrea — 21 June 2007 @ 10:09 am

  4. 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.

    Comment by Jeff Trull — 21 June 2007 @ 8:40 pm

  5. oh, good. a happy story.

    Comment by Kristen — 22 June 2007 @ 4:04 am

  6. 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.

    Comment by andrea — 22 June 2007 @ 9:46 am

  7. IwasjustcurioushowlongIcanmakealine

    [snip]

    yeah, I can be an arsehole

    Oh look, I've edited your comment.

    Comment by Terry — 23 June 2007 @ 12:11 am

  8. 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!

    Comment by Derek — 24 June 2007 @ 4:11 am

  9. Delboy, I was going to send you an e-mail, giving you an update.

    Comment by Andrea — 25 June 2007 @ 9:47 am

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