One of the sites I’m running is a long established community website with zillions of posts and bazillions of comments. The whole stuff is powered by a home made CMS written in Perl, something I did nearly 10 years ago and that is totally outdated today. For instance, there were no such things as “comment spam” back in that time, and dealing with this plague a couple of years after you’ve totally forgotten how your own stuff works is a real pain to deal with, believe me.
I finally decided to, guess what, migrate this site to WordPress. I wrote a custom importer (my half baked Perl CMS was using flat text files) and the result is…
Yep, so far, so good :)
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replied, on 27/Jun/09 at 8:20 am # :
Are you going to migrate the FFF???? Awesome!
thought, on 27/Jun/09 at 10:32 am # :
LooZtrA » Indeed :)
thought, on 02/Jul/09 at 11:15 am # :
That great. Now you will be comfortable maintaining the community, and, why not, expending it. WordPress is so scalable.
said, on 06/Jul/09 at 9:32 am # :
where is FFF hosted now?
said, on 07/Jul/09 at 10:56 pm # :
It’s hosted DTC !!
désolé, je sors
replied, on 11/Jul/09 at 9:49 pm # :
LooZtrA » Still not moved (will do in august), still at Stephane’s Altajeux, and will stay there :)