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Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Leelai Movie: Music by my friend!
07
Sep
My friend and college mate, Satish Chakravarthy is the music director of the Tamil movie Leelai check out the trailer above and all the songs here. Way to go dude. Hope to listen to more music from you.
Moved to Jacksonville FL
27
Aug
Pool in our apartment
I have not blogged in a while. I moved to Jacksonville, Florida. Joined a new job at Syntel. I have been a bit busy setting up the apartment, settling down at work… I have been out of touch with tech news too. Time to catch up.
Steps to Migrate from dasBlog to WordPress
20
Feb
I just moved my blog from dasBlog to WordPress. I have been one of the first users of dasBlog. I started blogging in 2003 with BlogX by Chris Anderson. dasBlog is a spin off of BlogX and I moved to it soon. I have created many macros/plugins for dasBlog and was very happy with it.
But off late the development of dasBlog has some what stalled and no new features are being added. I also singed up for a PHP/Linux host for a different project. I though why not give WordPress a shot. So far it has been very interesting. There are a huge number of themes, plugins… I am sure I am going to waste a lot of time trying things out. I have also started learning PHP…
Anyway here is how I migrated from dasBlog to WordPress:
- Installed WordPress. My web host, Bluehost, provides a very simple way to install wordpress.
- Back up posts and comments from dasBlog. I used this tool to convert dasBlog posts to BlogML. This was straightforward.
- For importing the posts I used a plugin originally created by Aaron lerch and updated by Kavinda. This was a bit tricky. My WordPress install allowed uploads of only 2MB files. My BlogML file was about 3.8MB. Wow! I have about 1250 posts! So I had to split up my BlogML file into two. But there was more problems. I still could not import the file. Some memory errors. I do not know enough PHP to fix that. So I split up the BlogML file further and imported them one by one. I made sure I downloaded each of the permalinks.csv generated.
- Then I setup the redirects. This is why I saved the permalinks file before. The import plugin generated a CSV file with the old and new permalink. I made sure I set up the permalinks to my liking before the import. I converted this CSV to a .htaccess to do 301 redirects and added it to my site’s root folder.
- Now I just copied my contents folder from my dasBlog installations so that all the images and binary files still had the same URL.
- That’s it the migration was done. Well I did have to migrate some of my static pages manually and setup redirects…
I sure will post about my thoughts on WordPress as I use it more.
This blog is worth $8336!
11
Feb
Migrated to WordPress
09
Feb
I have migrated this blog to WordPress from dasBlog. I have setup some of most of the redirects and a few more pages have to be moved to the new site. I will blog more about how I did this soon.
In the mean time if you find something odd in this blog let me know…
