December 11, 2014

failure to ragequit

Migrating from my Github blog (in Octopress) was supposed to work pretty much as specified in this guide ¹

I used this gist in source/rss.xml and then ran rake generate
I imported the generated file (in public/rss.xml) into my Wordpress blog, only to see this error

This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number.

A helpful post on the Wordpress Forums suggested the following change


<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0">

  <channel>

    <atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/>

    <wp:wxr_version>1.1</wp:wxr_version>

    <title>Agam&#39;s Mashed-Up Pome</title>

(i.e. adding the wxr_version marker line after the language specification)

After this, I tried importing again, it gave some warnings about not recognizing the author (which was to be expected) ... and then though it said "import successful!", there were no posts to be seen!

WTF Aaaarrgh WTF

date = "An"

slug = "An/failure-to-ragequit"

Yeah, I don't have the $&@%in time to waste trying various other hacks. The big reasons I wanted to switch was that

I don't want to muck around with Ruby ever again, and
I want to be able to write posts online (i.e. through some sort of browser interface).

Now (1) is not an immediate problem, so I suppose if it re-occurs, I'll put more time/effort into quitting Octopress, but meanwhile there are compromises possible for (2), such as the nice interface of draftin.com that I just discovered. So yeah, this blog lives on ...

This is the second time I've tried to jump from Octopress to Wordpress; Google suggests that most people seem to be going the opposite direction ↩

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