OK, I have decided I need to move to DasBlog. I have set up a test site and performed and initial test import of my Radio files. Unfortunately, I came across one significant hurdle that no once else (based on my Google searches) has encountered.
Whenever I post a discussion or mention of a different site the title of my blog entry is a URL that links to the sight (see the title of this entry for example.) In doing this I often don't even re-link inside the text. Unfortunately, DasBlog doesn't seem to support this. :( In fact, the Radio to DasBlog Importer doesn't even bring the links along. This means that for many of my entries readers (all two of them including my Mom) will not even know what I was referring to. As a result, I am going to postpone the actual port, at least for today, and see how difficult it would be to add support for this.
I also encountered a problem running the DasBlogRadioImporter but this was because I wasn't using the correct "from" directory. The one you need is the directory with an XML entry for each post. The root node for each XML file is <table>. The directory listed on the downloads page is "x:\Program Files\Radio UserLand\backups\weblogArchive\posts" but this didn't work for me so I had to hunt around a little. Regardless, be sure the Archiving XML (link only works if Radio is running) check box is marked in Radio and the path will be somewhere near the one entered on that preferences page..
Outstanding questions:
- Is it DasBlog or dasBlog?
- I tried to port my Transmitter theme from Radio. To do this I copied the #dayTemplate.txt, #homeTemplate.txt, and #itemTemplate.txt to a sub-themes folder and renamed by removing the '#' and changing the extension to "blogtemplate." I also copied the images directory. Next I added a them entry to the web.config file as described here under the title "Registering Themes." Unfortunately, things aren't as simple as this and the following error to appeared on all pages: "Control 'weblogCalendar' of type 'WeblogCalendar' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server."
- How do I display title links as described above (and how do I import these from Radio)?
- DasBlog doesn't seem to support the ability to upload categories to different sites. This was something I used (via #upstream.xml in radio) so that I could upload work only related material to an internal server. Crossposting may be the solution here except I don't want the material to appear externally at all.
- Many of the themes don't seem to display blog entry titles.... hmmm?
Other resources besides the sparse documentation are:
Other than this... I really like DasBlog!
7:25:40 AM
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