Well, that was a pretty exhilarating experience!
I’m delighted to announce that as of yesterday evening incsub is the new host of the most broadly read education weblog on the internet, Will Richardson’s Weblogg-Ed.
It’s a great arrangement… I can support Will in his new endeavours by taking hosting costs / concerns out of his hands and giving him a much more powerful blogging tool (exporting Manila to WordPress is FUN – heh – not really) and in return edublogs.org gets a nice little badge and I get a warm fuzzy feeling.
And I’ve freed up at least 4 hours a year spent ribbing him about moving to WordPress !
The design is only 75% there, but I’m a great believer in getting stuff out and then working on it so you should be able to see it improve over the next few days / weeks. Go tell him how great it is… you can actually comment now too :D
If you pulled that off in a day with all the old links still working, color me impressed. Congratulations, you’re now hosting the number 8 “Will” on Google.
Heh, took more than a day… we’ve had a few test runs at it already…
Pretty much all the links should be working though (fingers crossed!)
Interesting thought, I haven’t looked at that for years… seems like I’m about the 130th ‘James’.
[...] Anyway, looks like the site is about 90% rebuilt, but there is still some work to do. James Farmer has been just incredible with his time and effort on my behalf, and he’s even offered to do some tweaks while I’m taking my break. I’ll get to the rest of it when I return. The main thing is that the feed appears to be working. If you’re reading this in your aggregator, it would be great if a few of you could leave a comment just to confirm it. [...]
Um…technically…if you don’t count the same site links…I’m number five. ;0)
Thanks again, James. I’m heading out very, very happy.
Will
Hi:
I just saw the post about weblogg-ed moving to word press from a frontier/manila server. This caught my eye because I’ve been giving thought to making the same transition, having been a frontier/manila server users since, well, since before there was manila.
Can you point me to any good guides on transitioning my frontier/manila sites (currently running on my own server) to word press, also running on my own machine?
Thanks,
Dan
That’s funny I just helped Anne Davis make the same switch http://anne.teachesme.com/
Hey Dan, it’d be my pleasure!
Basically you need to run this script: http://www.queso.com/manilaToMT.php (script here http://www.queso.com/files/exportManilaToMT_14.zip) – although there might be some edits needed.
After that you’ll need to run some replace edits on the mt.txt file (it’ll put posts into draft which shouldn’t be etc.)
They you’ll need to use a modified version of the feed director plugin to retain the RSS feed… I’ve lost the link but will email it to anyone who wants it (contact form up above)
Then just import into 2.0.2 at MT … easy huh :D
It’s getting seriously old skool round here ;)
I’ve been following the Manila to WP discussion here and on Will’s site. I’m interested because I’m getting ready to implement a blog system at my school.
Can anyone point me to good discussions about the best multiple blogging solution for schools and teachers? I.e. I need to be able to allow teachers to create their own blogs and blogs for students from our in-house server – -what’s the blog app that will allow this most easily, dependably, with good levels of customization, etc.? I would really like to find a good discussion of these issues before starting up the blogging program here.
Thanks
Larry Hanley
Center for Teaching and Learning
City College of New York
Try googling multi user blogging
[...] I’ve followed a few of Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed posts regarding his switch from Manila blogs to WP. I am making the same switch via edublogs. Many thanks to James Farmer for offering a free site for educators. My only suggestion would be to offer a theme or two geared to elementary classrooms. The WP interface is user-friendly enough to bring teachers on board with blogging within a two-hour workshop. Jumping in to edit a theme’s CSS, however, is definitely for the advanced user. [...]
So very cool format. I totally agree, in my humble opinion. Keep the information flowing.Keep the posts coming.
[...] David Warlick blogged about the Edutopia Best Blog For Teachers article that gave he and Will Richardson guernseys for being Must Read blogs for Edutopia readers. I must admit that I very rarely look at Edutopia but the concept of the Must Read blog for educators is one that I concur with. In fact, I have a Must Read folder in my Bloglines account that is always the first port of call when I check my feeds regularly. Last year when I was still wetting my feet blogwise, I had the gall to name my Top Five Blogs (at the time) which was actually seven blogs that I was reading avidly. But the great thing about blogging is that you can constantly keep connecting to new sources and what speaks to you changes as you read more widely. So this is not a re-run or a new Top Five – if you link back, I still read all of my original list and highly recommend them. Will is now part of edublogs.org, Leigh has moved to NZ and is still in fine form, Jo is getting her story in the papers, and the others are consulted on a regular basis. But my new must reads are different, more acquired taste-wise and best of all, they make me think, really think in that sort of “can’t get that idea out of my brain” way. Extra Must Reads you should consider – if you are already reading them, well done and what do you think?! [...]