Jan 23
Blog migrated to Wordpress
Posted by James Netherton | Friday 23 January 2009 23:01 PM | In Blogging
I toyed with the idea of converting the blog from BlogCFC to Wordpress in 2007 but ended up sticking with BlogCFC. I’ve now decided to migrate over to Wordpress. It’s been an interesting exercise and overall, quite a simple one. I had all of my blog data imported into Wordpress via my BlogCFC to Wordpress conversion tool (which I’ve updated to fix a few small issues).
Recreating the look and feel was also pretty simple. Writing Wordpress themes isn’t as daunting as it first looks. So long as you have a clean XHTML & CSS layout, it’s a simple case of marking up the required header, footer & sidebar layout templates.
Any other BlogCFC specific functionality (like CF syntax highlighting) I managed to cover off by installing a few Wordpress plugins. Finally, I have Apache 301 redirecting any BlogCFC / CF URL’s, so hopefully my search rankings wont be affected too much!
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Posted by nick | Sunday 29 November 13:09 PM
Hi James – I hope you’re well. I wondered if you could post your .htaccess file?
Also – when the reCAPTCHA below doesn’t work you lose comments :-S
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Posted by James Netherton | Sunday 29 November 14:55 PM
Thanks for the tip about the Captcha, I’ll fix that when I get a chance…..
Here are the rewrite rules I’m using. Not all will be relevent to you as I had some static CF pages, random uploads and images that needed 301′ing.
RewriteRule ^rss.cfm$ /blog/feed [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.cfm$ /blog/$1.php [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.cfm/(.*)$ /blog/$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^resources/(.*)$ /blog/wp-content/uploads/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ /blog/wp-content/themes/jamesnetherton/images/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d