Comments on: Blogging software

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:00:10 +0000

That’s great, I’m glad you managed to figure it out and thanks for posting the solution!

By: Dash

Dash — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:52:18 +0000

I’ve found a solution, thanks for the guidance!

The secret seemed to be adding:


#set( $xmap = $pageModel.getRecentWeblogEntries( 1000, "nil" ) )

#foreach( $day in $xmap.keySet() )

  #set( $recentEntries = $xmap.get($day) )

  #foreach ($entry in $recentEntries)

#if ( $pageModel.getWeblogEntry() ) #set( $entry = $pageModel.getWeblogEntry() ) #end #if( $entry ) #set( $day = $entry.pubTime ) #set( $textcontent = $entry.text) #set( $comments = $entry.comments )

…into the rss page using the exportrss.vm model above.

Now I’ve got some script kiddies changing my xml to sql insert statements. Full description will be up on Skip The Budgie when I move next week.

By: Dash

Dash — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:14:44 +0000

Sorry to keep bothering you, but I’m really not that up on Java…

I’ve found exportrss.java, and exportrss.vm

Are you saying that if I can override the

loadDates(website); or loadDates(WebsiteData website); (a bit further down)

My default rss page will change?

I feel really lost and/or dumb now! I need to know exactly what to write… sorry.

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:20:12 +0000

That’s a good question, I just looked and I can’t remember now. I vaguely recall that there is a way to pass arguments to the http://jroller.com/rss/username page to get it to give you entries within a certain range! Now I can’t figure out what the arguments are though so I’d recommend hitting the source at http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/incubator/roller/trunk/ and see if you can figure out which options the rss page responds to.

By: Dash

Dash — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:13:50 +0000

Thanks, I was looking into scraping my site but I ended up with a lot of unwanted stuff!

The RSS feeds I get are only 30 days old though?

How do you get a feed for the whole page (obviously I can make the front page as long as the whole blog if I wanted)

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:39:23 +0000

Hi Dash, It was quite tedious actually. I never managed to move the comments so I left all of those behind which was unfortunate. In Roller you can download each page of posts as an RSS feed. My blog was about 5 pages so I downloaded the 5 RSS feeds, saved them to disk, and then in Wordpress I used the import from RSS feature to load them into Wordpress.

By: Dash

Dash — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:07:38 +0000

I’m trying to move to Drupal, and I asked Matt Schmidt about three months ago to give me a database dump of my roller site for the migration, but he seems to have disappeared into the ether (and jrollers’ howling problems, no doubt)!

It looks like you’ve managed to move everything here, would you mind mailing me how you did it?

Cheers,

Dash

By: Todd Huss

Todd Huss — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:25:49 +0000

I liked Typo but my impression was that Wordpress has a much larger user community, ergo more themes, plugins, etc… I also don’t have FastCGI or Lighty running on my current Linux server so it would have been a little extra work to setup, whereas I already had Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:23:07 +0000

If Ruby was your first choice of language why not go with Typo?