“I Hate Everyone”
This sucks. I determined that to have some decent bandwidth that I’d need to migrate my Wordpress blog over to Dreamhost (best hosting ever), instead of my upstream-bandwidth-limited home connection, and encountered the following sequence of events:
- Found an awesome blog about moving Wordpress to Dreamhost. This guy does exactly what I wanted to do.
- Completed up to the 2nd-to-last instruction, injecting the SQL database.
- Loaded the blog to see if it’s updated… It’s a mess! Nothing worked.
- Found my personally served copy of Wordpress is out-of-date, and needed to be updated before injecting the database.
- Found several forums where someone else was having the same problems; all recommended dropping the database and starting from scratch.
That leaves me where I am today. I’ve re-loaded a fresh copy of Wordpress, and manually copied and pasted my articles over to the new blog, and changed the DNS to point to Dreamhost’s servers. Done. So far I’m missing everyone’s previous comments, most of my links to external sources from the old blog, and my blogroll.
What’s even more taunting is that there’s an “import/export” feature built into the new version, that dumps everything out in a nice lowest-common-denominator XML file, and would have saved me hours of work. Apparently that wasn’t so important in the old one. I guess you can’t complain about free software, but you can still be angry with it.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Yeah, upgrading to the latest version locally would have made your life *much* easier. But manually copying and pasting? You should have been able to upgrade to 2.1 and either use the XML export, or dump and inject the database again. Especially for your comments. Let me know if you need any help with this.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:47 am
I appreciate the insight, and 100% agree! But I guess I missed a bullet point where I got stuck in an `upgrade loop’ ala http://wordpress.org/support/topic/74620 .
Since I obviously don’t have that many entries, and it’s pretty much done, I say `screw it’. This isn’t the first time I’ve had OSS technical blunders and just started over or took the hard, shameful way out.
But your offer of assistance is not unappreciated. I probably should’ve asked for the help earlier, too.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Even me?
February 16th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Well, no, not you.