{"id":603,"date":"2008-07-23T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purplemass.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2008-08-15T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T01:42:19","slug":"migration-from-serendipity-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Migration from Serendipity to WordPress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a long and laborious task.. It took a lot of research, coming across some extremely useful websites and a little bit of coding to get the job done.<\/p>\n

I’ll write a full report on this later on but for now, here’s how we did it for purplemass:<\/p>\n

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  1. Converted our Serendipity blog to a Movable Type format, ensuring the data was saved in UTF-8<\/li>\n
  2. Import data into WordPress (edited the MT import file)<\/li>\n
  3. Some posts ended having the wrong authors – this was changed manually<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This was a long and laborious task.. It took a lot of research, coming across some extremely useful websites and a little bit of coding to get the job done. I’ll write a full report on this later on but for now, here’s how we did it for purplemass: Converted our Serendipity blog to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}