Comments on: How to Botch a Blog Transition—In Other Words, Help! http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Exploring the Mystery - The Future of Musterion.net http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html#comment-3299 Exploring the Mystery - The Future of Musterion.net Wed, 10 May 2006 01:15:52 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help/#comment-3299 [...] I will also open up a new site which will run with more the format of what this site used to be. Posts may not be that frequent, I'll try to focus on quality posts rather than putting up any fleeting thought that comes to mind. I want to work on honing my writing, and a blog can be as good a place for that as any. I'm not going to announce the name or URL yet (I'm learning from other people's mistakes) but when it's ready I'll announce the news on here. Trackback URL: http://www.musterion.net/2006/05/09/the-future-of-musterionnet/trackback/ Post a comment. cauthor = 0; cemail = 0; curl = 0; ccomment = 0; function cmtclearsearch(elm) { if ((elm == "author" && cauthor == 0) || (elm == "email" && cemail == 0) || (elm == "url" && curl == 0) || (elm == "comment" && ccomment == 0)) { document.getElementById(elm).value=""; if (elm == "author") { cauthor = 1; } else if (elm == "email") { cemail = 1; } else if (elm == "url") { curl = 1; } else if (elm == "comment") { ccomment = 1; } } } function cmtchecksearch(elm) { if (document.getElementById(elm).value == "") { if (elm == "author") { document.getElementById(elm).value = "Your Name"; cauthor = 0; } else if (elm == "email") { document.getElementById(elm).value = "Your Email Address"; cemail = 0; } else if (elm == "url") { document.getElementById(elm).value = "Your Website URL"; curl = 0; } else if (elm == "comment") { document.getElementById(elm).value = "Your comment goes here."; ccomment = 0; } } } [...] [...] I will also open up a new site which will run with more the format of what this site used to be. Posts may not be that frequent, I’ll try to focus on quality posts rather than putting up any fleeting thought that comes to mind. I want to work on honing my writing, and a blog can be as good a place for that as any. I’m not going to announce the name or URL yet (I’m learning from other people’s mistakes) but when it’s ready I’ll announce the news on here. Trackback URL: http://www.musterion.net/2006/.....trackback/ Post a comment. cauthor = 0; cemail = 0; curl = 0; ccomment = 0; function cmtclearsearch(elm) { if ((elm == “author” && cauthor == 0) || (elm == “email” && cemail == 0) || (elm == “url” && curl == 0) || (elm == “comment” && ccomment == 0)) { document.getElementById(elm).value=”"; if (elm == “author”) { cauthor = 1; } else if (elm == “email”) { cemail = 1; } else if (elm == “url”) { curl = 1; } else if (elm == “comment”) { ccomment = 1; } } } function cmtchecksearch(elm) { if (document.getElementById(elm).value == “”) { if (elm == “author”) { document.getElementById(elm).value = “Your Name”; cauthor = 0; } else if (elm == “email”) { document.getElementById(elm).value = “Your Email Address”; cemail = 0; } else if (elm == “url”) { document.getElementById(elm).value = “Your Website URL”; curl = 0; } else if (elm == “comment”) { document.getElementById(elm).value = “Your comment goes here.”; ccomment = 0; } } } [...]

]]> By: Bonnie http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html#comment-3161 Bonnie Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:33:39 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help/#comment-3161 ooh! it's pretty! Great job! ooh! it’s pretty! Great job!

]]> By: Jon Clayton http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html#comment-3156 Jon Clayton Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:02:47 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help/#comment-3156 Dan, it look beautiful! Whatever the difficulties you have encountered, the end result is simply marvelous. Dan, it look beautiful! Whatever the difficulties you have encountered, the end result is simply marvelous.

]]> By: J.Wright http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html#comment-3154 J.Wright Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:34:30 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help/#comment-3154 Hey, Dan. The new layout looks great! Hey, some of us were talking about you at that old site that you used to frequent. It is a thread in the general area about where some of the old posters have gone. People were saying that they missed and were wondering where you have gone. I thought maybe you might want to pop in and say hi. -KIR- Hey, Dan. The new layout looks great! Hey, some of us were talking about you at that old site that you used to frequent. It is a thread in the general area about where some of the old posters have gone. People were saying that they missed and were wondering where you have gone. I thought maybe you might want to pop in and say hi.
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]]> By: Ken http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help.html#comment-3152 Ken Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:47:47 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/04/how-to-botch-a-blog-transition-in-other-words-help/#comment-3152 I recently moved my Wordpress blog to a new domain, and like you I learned a lot in the process. 1. When you are ready, you can set up a permanent redirect to send visitors to the new URL, even to the correct post (if you can solve the post name problem). According to my understanding, using a permanent redirect should maintain your search engine ranking. Here is a <a href="http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm" rel="nofollow">good article about 301 redirects</a>. 2. If you can figure out <b>exactly</b> how blogger truncates the title to form the url, then perhaps you could use regex to perform some magic on your urls. I am not an expert in this, but if you simply need to chop out all the articles, then I'm sure that there is a way to do it. As I understand it, you want to change all the internal url references in the database to point to the correct new url for your articles. So it is a one time operation, which you would like to automate if possible. Maybe some regex/SQL guru could help you out here. I enjoy reading your blog. Good luck on solving your transition problems! I recently moved my Wordpress blog to a new domain, and like you I learned a lot in the process.

1. When you are ready, you can set up a permanent redirect to send visitors to the new URL, even to the correct post (if you can solve the post name problem). According to my understanding, using a permanent redirect should maintain your search engine ranking. Here is a good article about 301 redirects.

2. If you can figure out exactly how blogger truncates the title to form the url, then perhaps you could use regex to perform some magic on your urls. I am not an expert in this, but if you simply need to chop out all the articles, then I’m sure that there is a way to do it. As I understand it, you want to change all the internal url references in the database to point to the correct new url for your articles. So it is a one time operation, which you would like to automate if possible. Maybe some regex/SQL guru could help you out here.

I enjoy reading your blog. Good luck on solving your transition problems!

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