Like my title says, “Making Money is my Hobby”. Unfortunately for a hobby to be successful you need to have spare time. This is not something that I have an abundance of these days. For example I have been 130% chargeable at my day job for the last 3 weeks. This means that my girlfriend is not very happy….Well not really, she is in the same industry.
Anyway, I have some great ideas for posts in the coming weeks and just have to find the 4 hours that it is going to take to put them together. One is a review of some of the free ebooks and stuff that you can get from various webmaster blogs out there. I have signed up for a lot of them, and even though they are free you can get some great information from these experts.
Another is a detailed account on how to set up your own blog, from picking your domain to setting up my recommended plugins. This post is for my friends that have been asking me how to start a “website”.
There are a couple more, so be sure to add my feed to your RSS reader or your get my posts in your inbox so that you don’t miss anything.
One of my sites used to be Drupal 5.x. I recently decided that it was time to convert the site to Wordpress 2.5.x. The reason being that I was really using the site more like a blog than anything else, and although Drupal is a great piece of CMS, it is really not that great out of the box as a blog. Wordpress on the other hand….well it is awesome. There are not that many world class bloggers out there that use anything but, and there is a reason for that.
IT WORKS
So I asked the question over at DP and got a couple of good links. However it wasn’t going to be easy since I couldn’t find anyone that converted to the most current Wordpress. This caused me some grief, until I decided to simply use an old version for the conversion and upgrade from there. So I went right to the version that this guy used, 2.2.2
The thing that a lot of people may have an issue with is the fact that there is no easy way to move over the users that you may have registered. Since I didn’t force users to register to comment or do pretty much anything else this turned out not to be an issue. The only people that registered were there to post spam. I guess they thought that if they registered they would bypass the moderation.
The list/order of things that I did. I am assuming that you have a host with cPanel and myphpadmin
- Complete backup of old site.
- Another backup, this time the root directories and the db seperately.
- Install Wordpress 2.2.2
- Open phpmyadmin, copy over term_data, term_hierarchy, node, node_revisons, term_node, and comments from the Drupal DB to the Wordpress DB. Alternatively you could have installed Wordpress into the same DB as the Drupal install.
- Run the SQL from the txt file as found on Alex’s Blog on the Wordpress DB from myphpadmin
- Delete the node_revisions table (It isn’t done in the above SQL)
- Download and upgrade to the latest Wordpress Build. (you don’t want to get caught with your pants down)
- Login in to Wordpress and start cleaning.
So that’s it. The one thing that I am going to have to figure out is an easy way to 301 the old URLs to the new. For now I simply logged into my Google Analytics account and manually 301′d the most popular URLs.
If you are having any problems following the step
Since I am sure that you think that I am entertaining and you have added me to your RSS Reader, I am sure that you are feeling the need to show your appreciation. Well, now you can…..I have added a wish list at Amazon that you can feel free to purchase from. Well truth be told I added some of this stuff a long time ago but never really told anyone about it, but now I am.
I have also settled on a theme. If you were checking the page out over the last couple of weeks you would have seen me try out a few different themes. I still have some tweaking to do, but this theme will allow me to do some more private advertising and market myself and any services better.
There are some great posts coming. I have started a serious for beginners to the web, I am talking about people that have no idea where to start, I am going to give them the tools, or at least where to go and get those tools. If any of you know of something that I should include be sure to post a link in the comments and I will be sure to review it.
After the beginner posts are up I have some local people in mind that I am going to approach to talk about how they got started online, and what their goals are. I am also doing a lot of reading on time management so expect some tips about how to get everything that you need to get done, DONE.
I broke down this weekend and got myself a Twitter account. I was going to hold off, but like facebook, I was peer-pressured into it. I am going to give it a 30 day trial run to see if it works out, or if it turns out to be more time than it is really worth.
I even installed a badge on this blog so that you can see what I am doing. I am planning on updating it at least 2x a day while I am giving it a go. I am pretty sure most of the crap that I am updating it with is not going to be worth much, but it should be fun.
Follow me this Month. It will be a blast.
In other Bluenoser News, I have started writing a couple of awesome tutorials that I am going to post on this blog in the near future. They are all about how to start a website from scratch, add content, start traffic and even cover the costs. This was brought on by some questions from my less geeky friends about starting something up, so I have decided to get them going and keep track of all of their questions. So the tutorials will also have some decent FAQs.
If this is something that you think that you will be interested in, or someone you know make sure that you subscribe to the feed so that you can be up to date.
That is all for now, but I will leave you with this. My favorite picture from my recent jaunt to the Dominican Republic.
He made me laugh.
