#wordpress 2019-02-28

2019-02-28 UTC
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[frank] I am on the verge of switching to WordPress with my blog. I have a full set of webmentions in an exported JSON file from my current Jekyll site. Is there anything I can do to import these in my new WordPress installation? If so, where to start and how to do this?
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[Rose] Good question, I'd like to know too!
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sknebel if the sites are still online and you can live with changed timestamps, you could just send matching webmentions to your WP install
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[frank] Well... I wouldn't know how to start with that. And what if I want to keep the timestamps?
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[pfefferle] the easiest way is to build an importer: https://royduineveld.nl/creating-your-own-wordpress-import/
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[frank] Yeah... that's what I was afraid of... build it yourself... Hmmm.. as a non-programmer by day and wannabe-Stack-Overflow-Copy-Paster by night, it's not something I would like to try
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[pfefferle] oh ok… hmmm
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[pfefferle] does your file follow any standard format?
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[frank] You mean the JSON file with webmentions? It's the export from http://webmention.herokuapp.com/
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Loqi A WebMention Endpoint
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[frank] Reading through the article you sent, it doesn't seem that hard. Most important thing is to figure out how to couple a specific webmention to an imported WordPress article (originally from Jekyll). Most permalinks are intact with the upcoming switch
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[pfefferle] that is the most important thing… you need an identifier that still works, like the permalink
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[frank] I checked my top 30 visited posts from the last 12 months and made sure these are the same on the new installation.
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[frank] That should cover the biggest portion of webmentions as well I think.
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[pfefferle] then url_to_postid( string $url )
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[pfefferle] 🙂
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[frank] Create a similar JSON file with webmentions and find/replace the permalinks to localhost URLs?
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[pfefferle] exactly
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[frank] I'm glad I have some logical thinking left 😉
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[pfefferle] 😄
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[frank] I will keep you posted on how this goes. It might take a few days since I have very few chunks of dedicated time for this.
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[pfefferle] I know this kind of problem 😉
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[frank] Well...my site is now live from WordPress instead of Jekyll. Build on a Genesis childtheme I am familiar with. Just to get started and have at least an active presence again to write dumb stuff on the internet. This blog will iterate over time. As always. https://diggingthedigital.com/ (Dutch only)
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chrisaldrich frank++ for the jump to WordPress
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chrisaldrich What are WordPress Examples?
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Loqi https://indieweb.org/WordPress/Examples
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chrisaldrich frank, for resending (manual) webmentions, you could use http://mention-tech.appspot.com/ or http://sendawebmention.com/, but that may be painful depending on how many you have...
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chrisaldrich wonders if aaronpk has thought of building in a re-mentioner for something like webmention.io when people move their site from a service that doesn't have webmention to one that does (like Drupal, WordPress, etc.)
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aaronpk Not sure how that relates to webmention.io. Maybe telegraph?