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WordPress Migration complete

Published on 5 June 2006 in Internet, Journal and Wordpress. 0 Comments

After several false starts this site is finally running on WordPress. Originally I was migrating to WordPress 1.5 but the site is currently running 2.0.3. Also I was going to design my own theme until I came across K2 and discovered how customisable it is. I’m not quite happy with the layout but it’s good enough to launch (and better than the old Drupal look). Expect a few tweaks over coming weeks.

If you had previously created a login on this web site to post comments the same username and password should continue to work. Comment moderation system is now in operation, although if you have previously had a comment published it should go through automatically (unless caught by a ‘comment spam’ filter).

The content on the static pages has been ‘freshened’. Much of it will, in time, be completely replaced and/or scrapped. Most of the content is fundamentally unchanged from my pre-CMS home page (set up in 1999) and consequently does need a bit of a shake up. Personal home pages have moved on quite a bit since then.

In terms of blog content, expect more regular posting from now on. Also the categories may get a bit of a shake up.

I am publishing a basic SQL script that may be of use to anyone attempting a similar migration from Drupal to WordPress.

Drupal -> WordPress SQL HOWTO

Migration under way… finally!

Published on 19 February 2006 in Journal, Snippets and Wordpress. 0 Comments

OK, I’m finally migrating to WordPress. Accordingly new user registration and comments are temporarily disabled.

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Drupal to be ditched

Published on 4 August 2005 in Journal and Wordpress. 3 Comments

I have decided that hacking around with a content management system I don’t really like is not productive and am therefore going to bite the bullet and ditch Drupal.

Drupal has powered this site for over a year. I started using it primarily on the advice of Sam Sharpe who, amongst others, had been responsible for installing it to drive the Imperial College Union web site.

The trouble is that Drupal is too much of a messy mixture of things that work okay but not really well.

I am going to switch this site to WordPress just as soon as I can. I have selected WordPress partly on personal advice from Suhaib Fahmy and Mike Moate and partly based on my own research. I think Tom Markiewicz’s commentary sums it up rather nicely.

As far as Imperial College Union is concerned I think there are no firm plans as yet but it is accepted that Drupal is not really viable for a multi-user, ‘corporate’ system. Plone looked interesting but it would be a fair amount of work to implement and the Union has yet to find a ‘volunteer’ to do the work.