Ryan McFarland

I will strive to get the comment feature working again. I would use the built-in Wordpress comment feature but it seems to be spammed pretty hard according to other users. I don’t want to lose all of my comments from Haloscan so I’m working on getting them attached to the old posts. This is complex and undocumented so i’ll probably be writing a tutorial about it soon.

In my rush to migrate to a different server I missed moving a number of graphics and screen captures. Some of the posts were just screen grabs of the weather forecast or frustrations when websites were down. Since i lost many of those images i deleted a few of those posts while going through my web log and categorizing posts and making personal items password protected. Here’s how I managed to grab my list of blogger post Ids…

I went to my blogger settings and at the formatting tab i set “Show” to 999 days and saved those settings Then i changed my template to

text<$BlogItemNumber$>
<$BlogItemTitle$>

I then clicked on “Preview” and right clicked on the page and selected all and copied the content. Then i opened a spreadsheet program on my computer and clicked on the top left cell and pasted the content. The results looked like this…

The reason i put “text” before the blog item number was because Excel (and Open Office’s Calc program) limit number fields to 15 characters. So i tricked the spreadsheet into defaulting to a text field for the import. Removing the “text” is as easy as a find and replace.

Now all i need to do is list the Wordpress post ids next to the titles of the posts (which i will do manually because of the post deleting that i did earlier), remove the title column, save the file as a CSV and send to Jeevan at Haloscan.