LiAnn

Shiny!! ??

Admittedly, the last time I re-learned a CMS from the ground up was six years ago (MT to EE), and I’m not overjoyed about diving into this again. But…the sites don’t work (except for my business site – yay, at least my customers don’t know that I’m dead in the water) and I’ve got to get them operational again. (And six years in internet-time is almost an epoch, so I shouldn’t be griping too much.)

Oh dear fluffy lord…there’s a possibility of export help!!! Or at least someone else who’s made the trip. (Thanks!! Last night at about 3 ack emma I’d resigned myself to spending the next month, or so, to manually move 10 sites over – and by “manually move”, I was thinking rebuild from scratch, backdate entries, lots of copy and paste. Anything that can help streamline that process makes me a Very Happy Camper.)

Even if I have to recopy all my tags into the individual entries, that’s a HECK of a lot less work than I had originally envisioned.

I wasn’t planning on using WP Pages, anyway, even for the few “static” pages that I have – like I said, I don’t completely understand them, and I’m quite happy setting things up like a blog.

Thanks for the plugin recommendations and the other link! Realistically, since I’m trying to come from ExpressionEngine to WP, I’m going to have to do everything manually and just kiss my comments good-bye. (I don’t have many of them….but still. Obnoxious and a bit painful.)

Thank you to both of you for your answers. This gives me some more information.

ipstenu, I’ve been reading about pretty permalinks. Can I set things up so that all of my URLs follow the format “domain.com/mythings/(title)”?

Thanks for the pagination-response. I won’t be using the Pages in WP, because I’ve never quite understood those (and one of the sites I’ll be re-creating has over 1,000 entries…yeah, I have a weekend project for the next few months), but the fact that I can put that nextpage in my post is good information. Thanks!! (Now I just have to hope I don’t hit the character limit for the body field…I’ve got a few entries that are ginormous. Think “nine-page articles”, and there you go.)

Also forgot to ask:

can I rename my index.php file to something else…like “blog” (completely removing the .php extension)?

can I install my admin folder into a folder other than something called wp-admin? (I think so…but wanted to check.)