My Passage on Wordpress


Hello everybody,

After 5 months of standby on this blog, I now have a little more time to occupy myself. 5 months where I could learn quite a site, where I tested many platform and site that gave me more or less money. Always full of ideas, but not always knowledge to accomplish .
So for this I finally took back the lead and I decide to leave Dotclear to move my blog to Wordpress. It took me time and a lot of testing to do, because the transition between these two different platform without losing my referencing were a delicate point. But how I do then? I'll explain it away.

Why the change already. Far from me to think badly of the team Dotclear which in fact be a good job with the resources they have. I have for practical reasons, felt the need to move to Wordpress. For simplicity's Updates without error messages. Its all too many plugins useful SEO that practice and especially for its many themes available either free or fee. There is also a strong community on the web always ready to help you either on the forums or on Twitter. I've also found it on very good interlocutor whether Wordpress pure graphic or quoted.

To switch to Wordpress I talked Bitonio on digitaladventures.fr

He created a script to put in your freshly installed Wordpress and it must look then in the terminal, go to Tools, Import and select "Dotclear 2.x"

Here are my steps for the passage of this blog, it is still that each blog Dotclear is different in its required and can put this problem. Example I still have not managed to test a correct transfer to the blog of my wife. His blog, bigger and better reference, I raised concerns because the script does not return me any notes and I lost a lot of important.

Good preparation of your blog Dotclear required and many tests are done to be sure of losing.

  • If you have the habit of writing in Wiki format, after all tickets to XHTML. This will facilitate the passage of tickets without coding error or other.
  • Sort all your notes in categories, it is important not to lose. Because otherwise they will not be transferred. If you do not know, or classified, you create a miscellaneous category and put all your items to orphans.
  • Check that your server is equipped with mod_rewrite, Important for the transition from your old url to new and do not lose are referencing. The script you create. Htaccess to give the 301s required. Otherwise ask your administrator to set him up.
  • Check your writable directory on your Wordpress. we must put the directory where the blog is installed with write access (chmod or your FTP / SSH).
  • Check the titles of your tickets and avoid removing the tag see [] if you have set. This would cause a 500 error on your server and make your blog HS.
  • Do not delete the first ticket is created with your Wordpress install and no plug for the moment. You better make sure to have a clean base for migration. You have all the leisure after discovering a multitude of plugins at all effective.
  • Follow the instructions Bitonio website and start migrating, once you have completed all your notes, user, comment, tag and links on your wordpress.
  • Copy the images directory of your blog Dotclear Wordpress in the tree.

In case of problems, please read the blog Bitonio and ask questions. Now we must check the tickets to see if your images are in place, and possibly correct access. Make your Wordpress settings necessary for proper operation, especially at the links from your blog. Check in from your old URLs are redirected to your new url. To do this after I installed the plugin migration Permalink migration and I have told him "/ index.php / post /% year% /% monthnum% /% day% /% postname% / Like setting. This corresponded to the structure of my url Dotclear. Thanks to him I have no loss on this blog. I'm going to concentrate myself on the theme that I use to solve it correctly and try to make it more enjoyable for you player.

If you find a bible on Wordpress, I urge you this site www.geekeries.fr is the lowest I found my happiness and he gave me probably decide to leave Dotclear. It remains for me if you want a good migration if you take the plunge. Thank you for letting me have you read through.

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