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Switching from Movable Type to WordPress

I have not published any post recently as I was busy in swtiching the blog systerm from Movable Type to WordPress. The installation of WordPress 1.2 was easy to accomplish (not so easy in the previous versions though). But I still got the following problems to solve:


  • incorporating my photoblog -- a little bit troublesome, but can be finished

  • permalink structure -- I am now forced to have the /index.php/ in the permalink since I am not able to add .htaccess file without making a 403 error in reading the index.php. Perhaps something with the mod_rewrite feature. I may have to switch to another hosting company to solve this problem :sad:

  • RSS feed -- same problem with the mod_rewrite feature

  • finding a great CSS template to steal. I have the present Plain Blue style from the WordPress CSS Style Competition



Besides changing the publishing system, I also merged my "movie notes" blog into the main blog and change the character encoding to UTF-8.
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10 comments:

  1. 小影May 27, 2004 at 4:05:00 AM GMT+8

    Welcome to the world of free software! :grin:

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  2. alanineMay 27, 2004 at 5:05:00 PM GMT+8

    Thx :smile: and I am looking for a really cool-looking css, any suggestion :?:

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  3. 小影May 29, 2004 at 7:59:00 AM GMT+8

    Just pick a random color, random font and random font size you like, and boom, a new site born!

    Anyway did you mention convert encoding to UTF8, what actually you did? My site frequently have character problem related to big5, wish to use UTF8 instead.

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  4. alanineMay 29, 2004 at 3:47:00 PM GMT+8

    I use the stupidest :oops: method to convert the encoding:

    1. use movabletype to export the whole blog with Big-5
    2. import the Big-5 blog using UTF-8 encoding
    3. copy and paste the readable Big-5 export over the strange-looking UTF-8 output.

    Since I have around 200 posts only and many of them are in English, I do not need to do much "conversion" myself :wink:

    I like the layout of your blog (though I prefer a 2-column for my own). My design sucks and I am lousy at matching colours, etc :cry:

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  5. 小影May 29, 2004 at 6:31:00 PM GMT+8

    捉到老鼠的就是好貓，我也把網站轉了UTF8啦~！

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  6. alanineMay 29, 2004 at 8:31:00 PM GMT+8

    What method did you use?

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  7. JansenMay 29, 2004 at 9:34:00 PM GMT+8

    i think these people may want to meet u:
    http://www.blogherald.com/archives/000768.php

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  8. 小影May 29, 2004 at 10:45:00 PM GMT+8

    我的方法是在phpmysql中export全個database成為一個sql文字檔(當然也另有備份)。接著用Notepad開這個文字檔，用Notepad的轉碼功能Save As做UTF-8 Encoding，並將template的big5東西也改回UTF-8，這就完成啦！全過程不用十分鐘。

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  9. alanineMay 30, 2004 at 7:50:00 AM GMT+8

    Jansen -- perhaps a nice way of promotion

    siuying -- I am not familiar with MySQL, I only know how to export to sql file ...

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  10. JansenMay 31, 2004 at 12:05:00 AM GMT+8

    yeah. try tell them about your story

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