NekoFever

You’re right on the first point, that unfortunately the only way to move content over would be to paste it into new entries within WordPress. It might be possible to parse the code with a script and automate it, but I can’t help you there because it’s far beyond my abilities and it would almost certainly be quicker for me to do it manually than it would to write a working script, no matter how large the site ??

As for the images, you should be able to leave them where they are. You can hotlink the images without having to use the built-in upload functionality or uploads folder, and the plain old img tags from the original HTML pages should work fine when pasted directly into WordPress.

Hope that helps.

I wouldn’t take the due date on Trac as gospel. According to the roadmap 2.2.3 is three weeks late and 2.0.12 is one week late.

It’s definitely worth upgrading now. All the early bugs of 2.0 have been ironed out and it adds a lot of new features and plugs a lot of holes. Plus you’re pretty much guaranteed support with new plugins since they’ll all have been tested on 2.x.

Just remember to backup and stuff before you do it and you won’t have a problem.

I use FAlbum and once it’s set up it’s probably my favourite gallery plugin. Slightly annoying to customise if you plan to update it in the future, but good anyway.

Once you’ve activated the plugin the options are available at Options – FAlbum. Set up the Flickr authorisation, then if you haven’t turned on friendly URLs you can view the gallery at https://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/falbum/falbum-wp.php, or if they’re turned on the default will be https://yoursite.com/photos/. It might need some tweaking depending on your theme, but basically it should just be taking your photos from Flickr and displaying them in a gallery at this point.

Just install the latest version in your Fantastico and upgrade it yourself. It’s not difficult at all, especially in 2.0 now that it reminds you to upgrade.

That’s weird – it’s there for me. If I remember correctly it wasn’t in the list of importers when I installed RC3 though, so are you sure you’re running the latest version?

Failing that, try going to https://blogaddresshere/wp-admin/admin.php?import=mt

Your idea’s probably wise, but I’m a new software whore who’s been playing around with a local install of RC3 for a while and can’t wait to try it out live. Fixing problems is part of the fun for me.

Anyway, I’ve backed everything up so if I find some showstopping bug I can restore my current working 1.5.2 in a few minutes.

I’d upgrade it yourself. My original WP installation was a 1.2 install through Fantastico, but as this was a couple of days after the release of 1.5 and I wanted the latest version I upgraded that myself and have manually updated to all subsequent versions. As long as you back up all your files and your database so that you can easily roll back if anything goes wrong (can’t emphasise how important that stuff is) they couldn’t make it easier.

Sorry, I just put it in the forum which mentioned XHTML and CSS since that’s the category I thought best fitted it. Nonetheless, I worked it out for myself:

<object data=”https://gamercard.xbox.com/NekoFever.card&#8221; width=”204″ height=”141″ type=”text/html” />

That works fine and validates as XHTML 1.1.

You can add it to the list of translations here yourself. Just create an account and click the “edit” link at the top.

There’s plenty of information on upgrading in the Codex, so read through that. Other than that, as long as you don’t overwrite the wp-content folder your themes and plugins shouldn’t be affected so any plugins and changes to your design should be maintained when you upgrade.

TextWrangler. It’s the free version of BBEdit which is like the de facto standard for development and text editing. I use it for editing WordPress files all the time with no problems.

Yeah, depending on the FTP program they mostly just get uploaded over the top of the old files and very occasionally this can cause an error since the old one isn’t completely deleted. Deleting it and then uploading the new one freshly makes sure that there’s no risk of that happening.

Some FTP programs like the one I use (Transmit) actually make deleting the original file part of the process of uploading a new one, but unless you know that it’s best to be safe.

Nice, they’ve added a ‘Save and Continue Editing’ box to the page edit screen. As someone who habitually saves every sentence or so that’s a real godsend.

I did something similar to this on a WordPress site that I set up by making a directory on the server called “icons” or something like that, and putting them in there with the exact names of the categories (e.g. “general.png”, “reviews.png”, etc). Then in the theme files where you want it to display the icon put the following:

<img src="https://www.yoursite.com/icons/<?php the_category() ?>.png" alt="<?php the_category() ?>" />

It seems to work OK even if it’s not the most graceful way to do things.