Phil Manser

Well, that was interesting. I finally imported everything from my old blog engine’s database. It was a Textpattern blog, and fortunately there is a handy feature in wordpress automating much of the import. Unfortunately, this handled a bit haphazardly.

Note: This is where I begin my little rant about a feature and complain without really offering any solution. You may want to stop reading here.

It was nice that it imported everything in, but wait, it didn’t. For some reason, it didn’t bring in some of the hidden posts that I had. They may be hidden from the public, but I still want to keep them. Then, I realized that everything was in the textpattern markup. But the output html is actually stored in the textpattern database, why not import that?

Before any says it (not like I get any comments, or anything, but just in case) I know, maybe it was a new feature or someone forgot to implement it or blah, blah, blah. I’m just saying that it needs to be fixed. That’s all.

Interesting plugin, but it completely screws up the write box and I can’t have that.

The only problem I noted with this plugin was that it added annoying horizontal bars to the entire admin menu.

I have noticed a number of problems with this plugin, which motivates me to write my own just as soon as I have the time. Problems I have noticed to date are:

• No marking of the “Home” page as the current page (in the li’s class attribute)
• Skewing of the Kubrick theme
  • Post title’s lost their linkage
  • Post categories lost linkage
  • Post edit links disappeared (when logged in)