{"id":125,"date":"2004-10-11T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-11T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T20:08:31","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Weblog meta, work rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to upgrade the weblog software which this site runs from b2<\/a> to WordPress<\/a>, ‘cos WordPress looks nice, is derived from b2, has database import scripts for b2 and has fuller features than b2.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, lots of things just didn’t quite work well enough. Database import needed a few tweaks to behave properly under WordPress. Almost perfect, but not quite. The new installation could see all the old posts and comments, but the formatting of the comments was horrible – line breaks not preserved and most stuff with quotes wasn’t un-escaped properly, making it look messy and breaking any links. This seems at least in part to do with the way WordPress actually displays the comments, so it’s not just a simple database hack to make it work. Formatting in new comments isn’t preserved properly either.<\/p>\n

I’m sure I could fix this by hacking the WordPress source, but on this occasion I don’t think I can be bothered. I’m sticking with b2. The new features in WordPress aren’t worth that much hassle. Sorry, Martin, no comment previews! Unless I can hack support for them into my b2 installation, which is perhaps a more reasonable possibility.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, work rant: IT Department at Head Office promised us ages ago an upgrade from our rubbish little 64 kilobit line to a 2 megabit ADSL connection. It now seems that they were fibbing. “No such plan”, apparently. And the person who was my main contact, i.e. the one who said it was going to happen, has now left the organisation.<\/p>\n

Sloblock. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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