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Converting from Mephisto to Wordpress

David Nunez
David Nunez

Finished pulling in old entries to wordpress.

  1. adjust controllers/feed_controller so that the article limit is greater than number of articles
  2. clear cached feed in settings
  3. in CLI, execute “curl http://yoururl.com/feed/ > feed.xml” (atom)
  4. use an xml / xsl editor on feed.xml to apply the Atom2RSS xsl sheet found here http://atom.geekhood.net/
  5. Use RSS import on wordpress

Issues: Tags / Categories get all mixed up. Pages and comments do not import

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Dir of Technology at the MIT Museum • Writing about emerging tech's impact on your life • Speculative insights on the intersection of humanity and technology 🤖

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