Migrate contents to current FlatPress version
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:07 pm
Hi all,
I have an old flatpress instance that I would like to migrate/upgrade to the latest version (at some point) and to another distro.
In my flatpress blog, I have done a lot of custom work in the php -ignoring all the advises from my future self- and thus at the moment the upgrade instructions does not work out of the box. I have extended the engine to support markdown, I have done some magic that I really do not remember what, I have updated some key elements but not all. As I said, I had a lot of free time back in the days when I was younger. In some posts I have bbcode, In some markdown, in others both (yes both, bbcode + markdown, I know!) and I also have microblogging posts from identica and some other services that I do not use at the moment.
I am looking for an exporter of some kind that I can export ALL by articles/posts in markdown, remove whatever I do not need from back 2009 -when I had still some black hairs in my head- as they are more than 2100 articles there (I think, I may grep/count something wrong) , create a new-fresh-clean instance and then copy the articles in markdown in the correct directories.
I know , that is I still keep my old blog flatpress instance.
But Can this be done somehow ?
PS. My php knowledge at the moment is near php3,php5 and I have almost forgot most of it !!!
thanks in advance, plz keep up this great project.
I have an old flatpress instance that I would like to migrate/upgrade to the latest version (at some point) and to another distro.
In my flatpress blog, I have done a lot of custom work in the php -ignoring all the advises from my future self- and thus at the moment the upgrade instructions does not work out of the box. I have extended the engine to support markdown, I have done some magic that I really do not remember what, I have updated some key elements but not all. As I said, I had a lot of free time back in the days when I was younger. In some posts I have bbcode, In some markdown, in others both (yes both, bbcode + markdown, I know!) and I also have microblogging posts from identica and some other services that I do not use at the moment.
I am looking for an exporter of some kind that I can export ALL by articles/posts in markdown, remove whatever I do not need from back 2009 -when I had still some black hairs in my head- as they are more than 2100 articles there (I think, I may grep/count something wrong) , create a new-fresh-clean instance and then copy the articles in markdown in the correct directories.
I know , that is I still keep my old blog flatpress instance.
But Can this be done somehow ?
PS. My php knowledge at the moment is near php3,php5 and I have almost forgot most of it !!!
thanks in advance, plz keep up this great project.