Check out the new webbplats, man
May 3rd, 2006 5:50:34 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Well, me and my blog have made it to the other side. Yes, the conversion to WordPress is complete. All of my old posts and all of your comments have made it over intact, sans smilies (sorry about that 
).
Because WordPress doesn’t provide an importer for my old blogging platform, I decided to use RSS for importing. Trouble is, RSS doesn’t embed comments in the same feed with the original posts (somebody feel free to correct me on that). So, I extended RSS with my own namespace, modified the RSS feed for my old site to include the extensions, and created a new importer for WordPress (based on their RSS importer) that processes the extensions. LBNL, I changed the old site to redirect content from the new site, so hopefully everything works seamlessly — even the existing feed subscriptions (although I encourage you to use the new feed directly instead).
I thought some of this code might prove useful to others, so I posted it on chipstips.com here.
Please let me know if you run into any glitches. And thanks for your patience.
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Awesome. Welcome to the collective.
Resistance was futile.
Thanks, Joseph.
[...] BTW, I noticed earlier Sterling added that long icon bar plugin of share it style apps when he switched over to WordPress (good move on the switch, mon, now hurry and change out that ugly default template — you deserve better). I thought about that once upon a time and decided against. I think that icon bar is cool the first time you see it but it seems very cluttered in the ensuing posts and nevermind what it does to readers who have no idea what function most of those icons actually perform. I’m not criticizing Sterling or others that use that, I just couldn’t get over that being too much information on each post. Folks who regularly use those type apps already know how to deal with the deluge of web pages they come across which don’t give them a handy way to save them. I don’t care for posts with a bunch of tags at the beginning or end either, which has been one of numerous disappointments with tagging [related: To space, comma, or quote, the tagging quandary] Something else Sterling will like about Wordpres is that any category he defines automatically becomes a tag. I like subtle but effective organization like that. [...]
[...] Check out the new webbplats, man [...]
[...] But given the current limited sampling, I still have problems making use of the information, mostly due to URL literalism. Share Your OPML differentiates feeds by URL, including all parameters. That means that if you have a feed that can be accessed by two different URLs, your numbers will be split between them. My feed has two URLs, because I migrated it to WordPress under a new URL, but made the original URL spit out the same content for compatibility. So half of my subscribers are listed under each URL. Many other sites provide RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and/or ATOM feeds — each with their own URL — so their stats are split also. When TDavid looked at the stats for his RSS 2.0 feed, he must have wondered “where’s Sterling?” until he found me under the ATOM feed stats — somewhere along my migration of feed readers that one got discovered by default. [...]
[...] Then I found WordPress (or did it find me?) and blife became much sweeter. After I managed the conversion, that is. I learned a lot about RSS and WordPress in the process. [...]