May 06
Well if you’re reading this then it’s worked. I’ve just migrated my blogging platform over to WordPress. After almost 5 years (First post Dec 16th 2003) of using Ray’s BlogCFC (a fine CFML blogging engine!) i’ve jumped ship - shock horror, to WordPress.
Once I’m sure it all went well i’ll post the export script I wrote - basically I tied into the (I think new) WordPress import/export functionality and wrote a CF page that rendered all my posts, including comments into format WordPress can import.
I think it may take a while for the aggregators to pick up as part of the process involved me changing the DNS entry for john.beynon.org.uk - so i guess most will be seeing the feature of Java - caching of the old DNS entry.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Why did you go to WordPress from BlogCFC? And did you consider trying something else like 1ssBlog, Mango, etc?
May 6th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Hi Ed,
WordPress is everywhere, plugins are everywhere, themes are everywhere. I want to spend my time coding what i enjoy, not hacking up layouts etc to work with BlogCFC. BlogCFC has served me well, don’t get me wrong. Yep, looked at the excellent work of asfusion with Mango blog - just wanted to go for something more mainstream, more feature rich and better toolset support etc.
I knew that question would arise
May 6th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
well… 1ssBlog have a lot of features and it’s really easy to setup a new layout for it. Yeah yeah.. i know it’s my baby so i love it, but still hehe
Ah! And soon.. i mean VERY soon it will allow “smart caching” also.. ptsss i should not tell about it till Updater2 is released (maybe already tomorrow)
But yeah… i definitely understand you.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Hey John - as a fellow WordPress user, who also constantly gets asked “why WP, why PHP, why not s CF-based solution”, congratulations and I hope your WP experience is as smooth and painless as mine. Just make sure you keep up to date with the point releases because, being so popular, there’s always lots of script kiddies trying to exploit any WP security issues that get found.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:35 am
thanks Kay, I have the autoupdate plugin installed so i should be pretty quick on getting updates applied.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
When can we see the export script that you wrote?
July 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I was actually looking for it the other day to publish but am struggling to locate it - will dig harder!