Finally, after months of pain and knowing “you have to do it” I migrated the 950+ posts from my first and biggest weblog, this http:// weblog.cemper.com I created in June 2003 on a now stoneage MovableType 2.65…

As you can judge from the “recent comment” bar on the site, I even had to disable commenting one year ago just because the anti-spam plugin was written in damn perl that was incompatible with 64bit CPUs (!!!)

A major goal was to keep the URL and site structure intact, while keeping modifications to the DruPal core at zero. After aprox 1 year of Drupal working I had the balls and heart to spend my whole weekend Saturday night to Monday night in moving everything to Drupal…

I’m happy – finally! After running my Marketing weblog on Drupal for more than half a year it was way time to get my oldest and biggest site to Drupal. The only reason I made this, was because I, myself had to implement the anonymous comment notification for Drupal as well as the AKISMET protection for trackback spam in Drupal … both were pretty obvious features everybody expects and knows from lower-scale CMS systems more bound to blogging like Wordpress… however the old-school drupal’lers didn’t see a need for those features so far… well.

The migration of MT was done with a script I got from morbus iff, initially made for Drupal 4.3 or so… I hacked that one for 4.6 and 4.7 so I made some hacks to load stuff into DP5 again, yet taking care that meta keywords are ported properly into the nodewords keywords attributes… I’m attached the file I used for future reference, but never ask me for support on that one…

I migrated a lot of custom stuff scripts, integrated some new meta data plugins I wrote and most important

got rid of that fixed layout and cheesy colors I had up on the site for almost 2 years … This new color theme is very much

in the fashion the blog was originally in 2003 and I love this – floating as well as bright, blueish colors… The sitemap is a HUGE collection of tags … nice, eh?

Some things are still missing

• migraton of the comment_notify plugin to Drupal 5.x
• migraton of the AKISMET integration into Trackback to Drupal 5.x
• the search index is not perfectly updated… not sure what’s going on (didn’t update all 950+ entries at once)
• some “weird errors due to pathauto”, shown only when editing (hopefully)
• weird “This content has been modified by another user, changes cannot be saved.” are still around in DP5 ? I can’t believe it
• had to disable comment_notify (that kept login info of users) because it kept the previous commenters info in the cache for all other users :-(
• trackback 5 is always disabled per post by default

Alright – comments are open again folks …

What you think about the new site?