Evangelizing
First off, thank you to reader Ric for turning me on to the Opera browser. I’m loving it! Integrated email and tabbed browsing… what’s not to like?
But, barring some miracle, I probably won’t be posting much today. I’m trying to finish the last few things so I can seamlessly switch over to using WordPress now that it’s installed which, actually, was a blinding fast process.
How fast, you ask? They advertise it as a 5-minute installation, but it took me just over two minutes. That includes editing the config file – a very simple process – and uploading everything. I was stunned.
Of course, as impressed as I was, I steeled myself for what I expected to be a lengthy process of importing my MovableType entries. After all, just last month when I’d had to transfer from one MT installation to another, importing 3,000+ entries and 4,500 or so comments took over three hours. On WP, importing took one and a half minutes. In fact, it might have taken even less time but I’d gone to the kitchen to make coffee after executing the import script. (See, I really was expecting a long process)
Next, I used WP’s “Link Manager” and imported my blogrolls. Now, that’s a feature I know I’m going to adore since it means that my page’s loading times won’t lag every time Blogrolling’s server goes down. But, again, I was prepared for a long process since I have 5 different blogrolls totalling over 700 links. I needn’t have been. It, too, took slightly over two minutes and every single link made it intact.
In short, it took all of six minutes to get WordPress up, running, and fully functional for my blog. Aside from wanting to create a lookup table so permalinks pointing to my MT entries are correctly synched with their location in my WP install, the only thing holding me back from switching over to WordPress right this instant is my inability to get my stylesheet to render properly in Safari. Mog has been generous with assistance – and saved me from pulling out my hair thus far – but we’re both at a loss when it comes to getting the side columns to display properly in Safari.
UPDATE: Mog informs me that the site is now rendering correctly in Safari. Yippee!
Snowballing
Miss Venomous Kate is now running WordPress and is having a ball at it. From her testimonial regarding the import:
[...] They advertise it as a 5-minute installation, but it took me just over two minutes. That includes editing the config file – a ve…
There’s Kate…
Congratulations the Venomous Kate for making the move to WordPress. She says the import process took 5 minutes. Damn that’s a fast move… Of course permalinks and RSS feeds are all FUBAR, but freedom has a price……
Welcome to the dark side sister, it is good to have you. Make sure to hit the support forums over at http://wordpress.org/support/ .
Hey, I’m happy to be here, liberated from the tyranny of Perl and the endless lag times of rebuilding indexes.
Kate: Mozilla and Netscape have had tabbed browsing for years. They both have e-mail built in, too. And the lightweight browser Firefox has tabbed but no mail You can, however, install it’s companion mail app Thunderbird. All three also have popup blocking. Hope you’re verifying against them, cause that what smart, classy internet visitors use.
I’ll save you the trouble…the site looks great in Firefox.
Thanks, Joe!
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