I’ve finally taken the decision to move part of the Bluebulgaria.com site to Wordpress. Up until now I was republishing Bulgarian content from Countries in Colors through a rss feed in a Rapidweaver template, but that led to too much formatting trouble across different browsers and platforms.

Moving posts. Once my new Wordpress database was set up, I had to think of ways to move the relevant posts from one database to the other. Now Wordpress gives you a few options to do so, and the most relevant seemed to be importing the RSS feed or using the Wordpress export/import functions, which create an xml file for you to import in the new blog. Problem is that you can only select posts based by author, and not by category. Once the import is done, you will have to manually select those posts that are relevant to your new blog. Another problem for me was the size of the file: the import function only works with files of up to 2 megabytes, and mine was strangely larger… until I found out that the export/import method actually also saves comments, including those comments that have been caught and hidden by the great Akismet plugin. I simply had to delete a month worth of spam comments which were hidden (669 in total), and my database was down to a much more reasonable size…

Dealing with categories. With the latest version of Wordpress come tags in addition to categories. The import created a very long list of categories based on keywords. Instead of one of two categories, I ended up having close to a hundred! I could not find any other way but to delete them by hand. Luckily I do not move posts every day!

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