Today is my first day back to work. Its been 21 days since I have last worked and a lot has changed since then. I can’t honestly say its been a relaxing three weeks, but definitely life changing.
Yesterday when we got home I begin the immense task of importing our old PHP-Nuke blog database into WordPress. Quite a task as there is no built in converter\importer in WordPress that handles that old piece of garbage. So I had to find a CSV importer, then do a SQL export of the old posts by author then format them into ‘|’ delimited format with all of the appropriate fields. The shitty thing is I can’t use Excel because for some reason when I save the file it converts my pipes to commas. Ugh. Not to mention I have to hand parse each one and remove all carriage returns. Pretty tedious work but I’m slowing getting them imported.
A lot of the old posts are from 2003-ish some neat stuff. Like Kelly’s first Powerbook and iPod, me using dial-up while traveling because High Speed Internet wasn’t very common in hotels. Some other neat stuff. Plus it will be great to have all of the data in one repository. I currently have WordPress emailing me nightly backups of the database in .SQL format in case I ever need to do a full DB recovery.
So far WordPress 2.7 has been great, its really easy to update addons and I’m anxiously awaiting my first Core update so I can see that in action as well.