Some people might have noticed on the blog aggregators that yesterday, I’ve switched from DotClear to WordPress. I guess the reason some blog aggregators repeat old blog entries is because they compare cache. And after a migration, for example the unique IDs are often different. So no, there’s nothing wrong with my blog :-p!
I also installed a RewriteRule in such a way that most old blog url’s will resolve to the new WordPress URL. I can’t make all of them work automatically because DotClear and WordPress use a different algorithm for forming the title-part of the URL (called the post slug). But most work. You can tell me if a specific “old” URL isn’t working. WordPress allows me to set the “post slug” manually. I can easily set it to the old slug or in such a way that my redirector stuff resolves it correctly.
Oh, and somebody tell the DotClear developers to get themselves a real anti-spam feature. Perhaps a captcha or something like that? For my case it’s to late: goodbye DotClear.
I’m probably going to regret it, but after installing bad-behaviour on both my wiki and my blog and on the blog also Akismet, I re-enabled editing the wiki and posting comments on the blog. As I weed through thousands of moderated spam messages in my old blogs database, I’ll try to recover the relevant comments and restore them in the WordPress database of my new WordPress blog.
Some code that might help you migrate DotClear to WordPress:
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