Please be patient, site destruction / construction in progess
Finally, I’ve got round to moving this site over from Mambo to Wordpress. If you’re arrived at this page expecting something else, then I’ve messed up the redirects somewhere. Never fear! Simply search for what it was you were looking for in that search box at the top right of this window, or navigate over via the category links. Sorry about that!
The move involved:
- Backing up the mambo database
- Then disabling the mambo install (I couldn’t uninstall using the Fantastico install because my phpadsnew installation shares the same database.
- Installing wordpress.
- Installing and configuring the Mambo import tool.
- Running the tool
- Re-editing EVERY single file to take out the hardcoded newlines the Mambo editor had put in. Damn it’s eyes!
- Assigning each entry to a new category
- Compiling a MASSIVE mod_rewrite list for the .htaccess file to make sure all the cached/indexed/spidered content from the search engines ended up at the right location.
- re-jigging the template to how I like it
- deleting the default content that comes with wordpress
- Next step will be to import my blogger blog on top of all this lot at let them co-habit nicely in the same location. But I’ve done that before for the Toxic Byte site from Blogger to www.toxicbyte.com