Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen
Importing Into WordPress with the Import-mt
I finally got the import-mt.php import file that comes with the default WordPress installation to work. Whew! What a long and hard ride, but I learned a lot and I hope you will find some lessons here, too. Some of the following information might be a little redundant, but if you are finding this page […]
The Art of Navigation – Maps, Tracks and Getting Lost
We have every kind of map you can imagine for our life on the road. Street maps, local maps, fold-out maps, computerized maps (two different programs!), maps in books, maps on backs of flyers and, our personal favorite, hand drawn maps from people we meet along the way with a locale in mind that we […]
Archiving the Smithsonian Websites
And I think I have problems converting my site over to WordPress. This is an amazingly thorough study called Archiving Smithsonian Websites: An Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project. It looks, step-by-painful-step, at the process the Smithsonian took to convert their websites to database driven power sites. WOW! I will be […]
Really Rocking with WordPress
After treading carefully around the PHP and coding of WordPress, I have become fearless. I just installed the WP Plugin Manager and wish I had done this months ago. Today I bravely added the following plug-ins, hacks and changes, and I am thrilled with the results. StatTraq A PHP function that works with WordPress to […]
Compromises Along the WordPress Import Path
Okay, I made a lot of mistakes along the way to forcing my static HTML information into the WordPress database. In an effort to help others learn from my mistakes and compromises, I present mine to the world so you can see that a lot of hard work and screw ups went into the finished […]
Manually Importing Into WordPress Databases
Throughout this long and tedious process, I even tried manually importing my static html pages into WordPress, after they had been converted to XHTML, cleaned up and restructured to meet the manual MySQL import layout. Since I was working with material I’d already cleaned up, changing it from the import-mt format to the MySQL import […]
Lorelle’s List of Spam Words for WordPress
After battling long and hard with spammers, I’ve created a huge comment spam words list for filtering out the nasty comment spammers on my site. If you have WordPress or any other blogging or CMS software, add these to your comment spam list. You can also use this if your email software permits such word […]
Creating One Big Import File
I’d validated a lot of the HTML of my web pages, then ran it through a conversion from HTML to XHTML, and searched and replaced across the multiple files to eliminate the redundant styles, HTML structures, meta tags, javascripts, and unwanted elements, reducing it down to the Title, Author, Excerpt, and Body content. What remained […]
Imitating MovableType Import File
When I’d search and replaced the parts of each page that could be eliminated, I needed to start the next series of search and replaces which would turn the information into the MoveableType format. Following the guidelines set up in the article MoveableType Instructions for Importing Data, I had a format to follow and a […]