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May 14th, 2008
Yay.. At last!
My blog now incorporates all my old, old posts from when this thing was run on MovableType. For a long time it hung around in a giant SQL dump on my laptop’s desktop and at long last I’ve managed to restore them into WordPress.
And it was all thanks to a little Perl script, a copy of Poster and a few hundred clicks on a ‘publish’ toolbar button.
Now all I need is a way to do the same for the posts languishing in my old blogger account. For pre-2003 stuff, I may even resort to archive.org.
Er.. sorry if this landed like a bomb on your RSS reader.
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1. Alex M | May 14th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Hooray! Glad it worked in the end.
2. Alex M | May 14th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Oh, and for getting stuff out of Blogger, mightn’t it be possible to change the template of the old blog to contain the tags necessary to make it a valid “.post” file, and then just publish it? Each post gets its own page, doesn’t it?
3. izb | May 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am
As it turns out, I only had 15 posts in the blogger account, so it was easy to copy/paste into poster.
Yay!
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