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A new toy


As you can see, we’ve made some changes here at BTN, including a webhost move and a switch to Chyrp for blogging. Old content should be reappearing over the next few days, though old URLs may be unreliable.

UPDATE: Comments didn’t all import properly, and I still have some theme (look-and-feel) work to do, but otherwise a smooth move.

FINAL UPDATE: All comments now successfully imported.

4 March 2008 / 6 Comments / Tags: tech, fyi

Comments on “A new toy”

  1. This is a comment test as a logged-in user.

    JoshC on March 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
  2. How do you like chyrp??

    Kevin Donahue on March 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
  3. Geez, a 6-year import!? How’d it go? I never fully trusted the WordPress (if that’s what you moved from) importer’s integrity…

    Alex Suraci on March 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
  4. I imported from MT 3.34 via its textfile export. Sure, it’s six years, but only 230-some entries.

    Entries came over without the slightest problem, but comments were very hit-or-miss — a little less than 50% made it in, and their dates got severely munged. I wound up writing a Python script to massage the SQL export I had of mt_comments into suitable INSERT statements for chyrp_comments, then dumped the whole imported set and ran my generated SQL script.

    Liking Chyrp so far, though I haven’t gotten into theming much yet (first task: make the list of monthly archives a DHTML rollup/down!). I’d like to get Markdown working too, but I’m not sure whether it’ll play nicely with my DB full of HTML entries.

    JoshC on March 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
  5. It should work fine. It ignores HTML tags, as far as I know. The only potential problem would be double-ing the paragraphs, but it might have measures against that. Either way, a quick toggle off would fix things again.

    Sorry the comment import didn’t go very well. Would you mind e-mailing me your export file so I can test with it? I don’t have many resources to test myself. My e-mail is set on this comment (and the other one).

    Alex Suraci on March 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
  6. Markdown-tastic effective now. It’s scattered some < p > tag fragments across the archives, but that’s a minor cleanup job.

    JoshC on March 11th, 2008 at 12:02 am