[tei-council] TEI Newsfeed

[David Sewell]

James, thanks! That's an act of heroism (for geeky values of "hero").

I'll take a look at the setup when I have a chance and will see about 
retroactively posting news items that went missing during the Sourceforge 
downtime.

David

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, James Cummings wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> As you know SourceForge are terminating support for 'hosted
> apps'. This means they were going to shut down the wordpress blog
> that we use to power our newsfeed on TEI-C. Simultaneously many
> of us have had problems accessing the wordpress blog on
> SourceForge, so couldn't get a proper wordpress 'export' of the
> site.
>
> I could, however, get a database dump of the wordpress database
> from SourceForge. I set up wordpress on my own machine
> temporarily, then imported this database, then manually edited it
> to create a real admin account (SourceForge always did this with
> a bit of indirection) and modify some necessary URLs. Once I
> could get into the local wordpress as an admin I exported the
> wordpress posts/categories/etc as a wordpress xml file. I then
> reimported these into
> http://textencodinginitiative.wordpress.com/ as a new location.
>
> I've modified the shell script and XSLT in SVN under
> TEIC/newsfeed/ and updated those up on the tei-c.org machine. I
> put in a test post about the newsfeed move, and it all seems to
> be working.
>
> However, there are bound to be some problems, especially with
> legacy URLs inside posts, etc.  If you happen across any please
> do let me know.
>
> -James
>
>

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