racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

I’m trying to import my old posts from my jangelo.i.ph blog, which I’ve since relegated as my archives blog. Thing is, I want to centralize everything and use racoma.com.ph for my old content (which I consider to be very relevant), for the following reasons:

• Search engine optimization – My i.PH blog had lost its optimizations when i.PH upgraded to Calliope version 2.
• Monetization – Same as the above reason, I’m no longer able to put up AdSense ads on i.PH. And i’m trying to experiment with monetizing racoma.com.ph (Against my minimalistic design stance? Not really.).

One big problem: there’s no easy way to import from i.PH. There used to be a means to backup all content using the old Blog:CMS backup feature, but WordPress simply does not have a WordPress-to-WordPress. And i.PH is now running a modified version of WordPress as its content management system.

So for now, I’m doing it manually, part-by-part. I’m saving the RSS 2.0 file generated by jangelo.i.ph (at http://jangelo.i.ph/blogs/jangelo/feed) and using this with the WP import tool to import ten posts at a time. Then I delete the ten posts from jangelo.i.ph, so the RSS generated would be for the next ten posts, and as these would be considered dupes by Google (very un-SEO).

Hopefully I’ll get to do enough moving in my spare time, and I hope I get to finish the total migration within a few weeks.

Update: I found an easier way

I found an easier way. Not exactly an easy way but one that’s relatively easier than the save-import-delete method. I access the RSS feed by page, by using this URL:

http://jangelo.i.ph/blogs/jangelo/?feed=rss2&paged=(insert page number here)

So this means I can easily view and save the feeds by batches of 10 without having to delete the items first. Once I’ve finished doing this to all my posts (more than a thousand) then I can delete all the posts on the original blog.

Sweet.

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