Note: This page is obsolete. HongPong.com has been switched to Drupal and this page is preserved for archival purposes. Please see the front page.

MovableType - Wordpress - Drupal triple bank shot was so easy it's scary: Thanks Borek!! The Drupal site is now filled up, LOCKED & LOADED!!

Well, damn skippy!

All right, that took long enough. But yes, in fact, I was able to dump the entirety of HongPong.com into Drupal, by first going from MovableType to WordPress, and then using the fine and polished 'Wordpress to Drupal Migration Utility' module by Borek Bernard at borber.com.

Notably, my beloved lengthy headlines have been truncated a bit, but this is due to Drupal's maximum headline size, which is going to have to be hacked. This was not the fault of Wordpress or Borek. Also some HTML encodings, like for example ampersands, have become garbled. HTML encodings are the tricky monster of MySQL, so there are other messed up characters yet to be found.

I imported this onto a new test Drupal server at
http://drupal-test.hongpong.com .
This will probably be molded into the production server, and I will just copy over the customizations already at
drupal.hongpong.com .

Thanks for your patience with this process. The colossal technical hurdle that held things back (apart from my laziness) was overcome with a triple-bank shot. Thanks too to WordPress. Excellent software but not quite right for the task at hand.

THANK YOU FOR VISITING US OVER THE YEARS.
THANK YOU, C.I.A., DEPTS PENTAGON, STATE AND JUSTICE FOR VISITING AND AMUSING ME.
(you guys ain't seen nothing yet)
THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS FOR ROCKIN.
THANK YOU SPAMMERS FOR BOOSTING OUR GOOGLE RANK!

MOVABLETYPE IS AT AN END.
HONGPONG.COM (VERSION 6?) IS ON THE WAY.

Posted by HongPong at September 6, 2006 01:33 PM
Listed under HongPong-site .