{"id":14529,"date":"2009-04-13T23:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T05:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14529"},"modified":"2009-04-13T23:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T05:21:15","slug":"getting-wist-back-up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/getting-wist-back-up-and-running.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting WIST back up and running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\">WIST<\/a> (&#8220;Wish I&#8217;d Said That&#8221;) is my quotations database\/blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had it running in Movable Type the past couple of years, but my own mania for WordPress, plus my MT installation getting kinda broken (so that I couldn&#8217;t update it through the MT control panel), plus my current computer woes (so that I couldn&#8217;t update it through ecto\/Linear) meant my &#8220;Gosh, I should do that project someday&#8221; plans turned into a crash conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Which is more difficult than at first blush, because I do all sorts of weird stuff, blogwise, with WIST, essentially treating a blog as a content management system, and doing weird stuff like using the Title for citations and the Category for the author (and the Category Description for the extended author info).<\/p>\n<p>All of which meant some substantial tweaking of the templates, plus a lengthy effort converting over the Category Descriptions, plus figuring out how to deal with the difference between normal and extended post text in MT (two separate fields) and WP (one field with a tag in the middle of them).<\/p>\n<p>Etc., etc., cry me a river, but &#8230; I&#8217;m now <a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\/admin\/7049\/\">live on WP over at WIST<\/a>.\u00a0 There&#8217;s still a lot of clean-up and tweaking to do, but the site is functional and usable and the RSS feeds work and I can get back into the quote-posting biz (at 7,000 at this point and still going strong) as of tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p><small>Oh, and for the record, I seriously hate working in\u00a0IE6.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIST (&#8220;Wish I&#8217;d Said That&#8221;) is my quotations database\/blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had it running in Movable Type the past couple of years, but my own mania for WordPress, plus my MT installation getting kinda broken (so that I couldn&#8217;t update it through the MT control panel), plus my current computer woes (so that I couldn&#8217;t update &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/getting-wist-back-up-and-running.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting WIST back up and running&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical","category-wist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/22\/wist_update_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":14529,"position":0},"title":"WIST update","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Feb-07 2:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted a long overdue update to my WIST quotations database. 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