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12/09/2021


2021/09/12#p1

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Reading back over some old posts, I realised that the voice inside my head – the one that tells me that I'm not good enough – cropped up more often than I'd like.

When I first started working on my custom overlay for WordPress it told me that I wouldn't be able to build my own system from scratch.

When I did build my own system it told me that I wouldn't be able to migrate the Journal and muse-letter over.

After I successfully migrated the Journal and muse-letter it told me that I had better give up all hope of migrating the Digital Garden – way too hard, way too much work.

When I migrated the Garden it said I should stop, there was no way I'd manage to eradicate WordPress completely. It was too hard to get the old posts over, stop kidding myself I could even contemplate it.

Well, screw you voice inside my head!

I've taken a massive step to completely removing my requirements for a WordPress install and created an archive page that pulls posts from the WordPress table, displaying them a day at a time, just like the rest of the site. Here's the first day with a post from the WordPress posts table – back when I used to be enthusiastic about social media.

I didn't need to migrate the posts into the new system (that would have been a logistical nightmare) just build a way to retrieve them from where they already were.

I need to do a little bit of tweaking and also introduce an extra loop to pull in comments but it works nicely. I had to account for the switchover from using the native WordPress functionality to when I started using my overlay – the primary issue was switching from reverse chronological order to chronological, but I also had to get clever with post titles.

Once the page is complete I'll be able to completely remove WordPress, all I need are the tables and images.

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2021/09/12#p2

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Some tweaks have been made and the comments are also being pulled in. We're getting closer.

The only issue with removing WordPress completely will be where there are direct links to old posts. I may need to look at redirects as a possible solution.

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jamesvandyne says: Reply to jamesvandyne

@colinwalker Might be helpful, but maybe not since blog(n) displays posts by day. With Tanzawa each Wordpress post has its own record where I record the original wp url and a link to the Tanzawa post. Then in my 404 handler, I lookup to see if the path matches any of my Wordpress paths and if it does I return a permanent redirect. A similar approach may work for you?

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Colin Walker replied:

Thanks. I need to implement a 404 page – I'd completely forgotten about it. 🤦‍♂️ I may do something similar: export all post permalinks to a fresh table, add the new links then do a switcheroo. I'll need to see if I can automate the creation of the new links as it will be in a completely different format.

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Colin Walker replied:

Thanks for the inspiration – 404 page and redirects sorted 👍

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jamesvandyne says: Reply to jamesvandyne

@colinwalker Awesome 👍

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