Comments on: Blosxom to WordPress http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress Technology, law, and personal stories Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Motherboard I’d Like to Fuck » Helping a friend migrate from Blosxom to Wordpress http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-4637 Motherboard I’d Like to Fuck » Helping a friend migrate from Blosxom to Wordpress Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:42:39 +0000 http://test.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/#comment-4637 <p>[...] I use parentheses way too goddamn much. I’m going to investigate the two linked from codex (since they do seem to be the best) a little more, determine the differences, and go from there. Too bad python guy didn’t share his script, it might have imported categories properly, but maybe the ones that I haven’t looked into deep enough do as well, so… yeah. I’ll try to update this later (unlike forgetful Adam). [...]</p> [...] I use parentheses way too goddamn much. I’m going to investigate the two linked from codex (since they do seem to be the best) a little more, determine the differences, and go from there. Too bad python guy didn’t share his script, it might have imported categories properly, but maybe the ones that I haven’t looked into deep enough do as well, so… yeah. I’ll try to update this later (unlike forgetful Adam). [...]

]]> By: Jason http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-2773 Jason Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:58:07 +0000 http://test.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/#comment-2773 <p>Hey, I just finished doing a WP install for my work website. I'm planning on moving PIHP over to WP in the next weeks. I'd be interested to know what you did re: plugins and widgets and such.</p> Hey, I just finished doing a WP install for my work website. I’m planning on moving PIHP over to WP in the next weeks. I’d be interested to know what you did re: plugins and widgets and such.

]]> By: Chung-chieh Shan http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-2771 Chung-chieh Shan Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:26:08 +0000 http://test.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/#comment-2771 <p>Eww! PHP!</p> Eww! PHP!

]]> By: Steve Laniel http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-2770 Steve Laniel Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:38:20 +0000 http://test.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2007/01/28/blosxom-to-wordpress/#comment-2770 <p>Nice! I look forward to skewering this transition in casual conversation with my friends, at those parties where we make fun of database-backed blogs.</p> <p>I don't know that filesystem-only blogs are the trouble. I'm sure it's possible to design such a thing and make it scale well. I just don't think Blosxom does it well. Partly that's because of the Blosxom Way -- namely, that it's the simplest conceivable layer above a filesystem, and that absolutely anyone could write a plugin to it. I've been in discussions on the Blosxom list where people have rejected certain solutions because they complexify the code and make it less accessible to novice hackers. Anyone can write a Blosxom plugin with just a few minutes of reading about the blog package.</p> <p>All that said: database-backed blogs are the way to go. They can be done badly, though, and WP has had some scalability problems that we encountered when running ThinkProgress. But since WP is the wave of the present, I presume its bugs are going to be fixed in time.</p> Nice! I look forward to skewering this transition in casual conversation with my friends, at those parties where we make fun of database-backed blogs.

I don’t know that filesystem-only blogs are the trouble. I’m sure it’s possible to design such a thing and make it scale well. I just don’t think Blosxom does it well. Partly that’s because of the Blosxom Way — namely, that it’s the simplest conceivable layer above a filesystem, and that absolutely anyone could write a plugin to it. I’ve been in discussions on the Blosxom list where people have rejected certain solutions because they complexify the code and make it less accessible to novice hackers. Anyone can write a Blosxom plugin with just a few minutes of reading about the blog package.

All that said: database-backed blogs are the way to go. They can be done badly, though, and WP has had some scalability problems that we encountered when running ThinkProgress. But since WP is the wave of the present, I presume its bugs are going to be fixed in time.

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