A Drupal to WordPress migration can sound daunting, especially if you have a large or long-established site. From my experience, a migration project is actually not very difficult in terms of technical challenge. It can, however, be time-consuming, tedious and sometimes finicky with the data mappings. It’s my job to make the process easy for […]
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In a Drupal to WordPress migration post by Sam Michel, reader Jean-Philippe commented that why he couldn’t find the tables mentioned. I started composing my reply but for some reason the page wouldn’t let me post. Rather than waste the time it took to compose the reply, I thought it would be good to post
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These Drupal to WordPress migration notes are intended for clients who are handling some aspects of the migration themselves. Users of the Drupal to WordPress Migration Tool or MySQL queries might also find information here to resolve some problems. Admin account password and email address Your content management system (CMS) administrator password and email address
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We use a web-based project management system called Basecamp which you can used to communicate with us. It allows you to send messages which are logged chronologically for your records. It also lets you assign tasks to us in the form of To-Do lists. This helps us keep track of outstanding tasks more efficiently. This
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Many Drupal-based sites create summaries when you upload a post. These are often shown in listing pages that show the first paragraph or so of the post. These post summaries called ‘teasers’ in Drupal and are extracted automatically from the main text. The software makes its best guess about how much of the text to
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Your Settings If you are hosting your email with our preferred hosting company, Rackspace Cloud, the settings for your email server are as follows. Incoming server: secure.emailsrvr.com Outgoing server: secure.emailsrvr.com Username: Your full email address Password: This will be sent to you separately Setting up a new account in Apple Mail Open Apple Mail and
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Login to your CMS at http://YOURSITE/user (replace YOURSITE with your own domain name). Create a new page or edit an existing page where you’d like to add the link. In the ‘Body’ editor box, type some text and highlight the words that you’d like to convert into a link. You may also highlight existing text.
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Introduction These instructions relate to your public website. It will show you how to upload a file to your server. Your site is controlled by a content management system (CMS) and there are several ways to achieve the same result. Here I will show you one method, but if you find it to be unwieldy,
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