Hopefully tonight, but definitely some time this week, I’ll be switching by blogging software from sphpblog to Wordpress.
I have been very happy with sphpblog and it met my needs when I wanted to start a blog without having to pay for a database with my host, but it can be clunky at times.
Well, now that I do have a database with my host, and having used wordpress in a couple other blogs, the only thing holding me back from switching this blog to wordpress was the choice between doing the labor to move all my content over to wordpress (there is no way that I know of to transfer posts from sphpblog to wordpress) or starting from scratch.
Well, I’ve now created a test instance of wordpress and I’ve copied all of my content into it’s database now. Now the only thing left is to try to move it into it’s test directory into the root and replacing this blog. This will include backing up everything, then conducting the actual move, and then testing to make sure everything works, that links work, etc.
If all goes well, my blog will hopefully be back online in an a couple of hours. If all doesn’t go well, well…I guess it depends how much it doesn’t go well on what I decide to do then. Luckily with the sphpblog, since it’s all flat files, I can pretty much re-upload it and everything should work fine.
