Today I was searching in my pc and suddenly found the very first version of liekie.com including the installation ánd all archives of the weblog I made with the blogsoftware Greymatter. Since Wordpress now supports importing posts ánd comments from Greymatter I decided to upload the installation and the archives and try to import all posts wich go back to January 2003. In fact it is the period of the last 2 years I was living in Holland
It wasn’t too much trouble to import the posts and all comments, so from now on you can find back all ramblings I ever made in this weblog.
I still need to edit every single entry, so it gets one or more categories and repair the broken links wich am able to repair and upload some pic and videos again because they are on a server wich doesn’t excist anymore. But this time I don’t need to edit every single com,ent in the database, because the importtool did well on importing them

Written by Liekie @ 02:19:16 am
Tags: archive, Holland, weblog, website, Wordpress

So for the past 2 years this website has been running on the CMS Joomla!. I liked it a lot playing around with Joomla!, trying some new components, making the upgrades and at the end even trying to make my own template.
But since this site is a blog actually, I think Joomla! isn’t suitable for this website at all. It is not possible to work with categories the way you work with them in a “real” blog. Joomla! works with sections wich you can devide into categories, and as soon as you move a post to the archive, the post isn’t listed in the categories list anymore. So I have been thinking about migrating the entire website to Wordpress, since it’s the best blogtool at this moment, and with wich I’ve got some experience since I am running 2 other blogs on Wordpress.
The pages with tutorials I have written for WebcamXP I can also add to Wordpress because Wordpress has the possibilities to work with pages and subpages and even categorize the pages.
I am still looking for the best options to migrate from Joomla! to Wordpress, but sofar I was only able to find 1 solution, wich only migrates the posts and not the comments. If I cannot find a good way to migrate I’ll might move this website to a subdomain, and disable the option to post comments and guestbookentries.

Written by Liekie @ 03:34:55 pm
Tags: blog, Joomla!, migrating, WebcamXP, Wordpress