I tried to import all the old posts here. Just didn’t work. With nearly 2,000 posts and over 5,000 comments the standard importer would not have worked. After 5 days of waiting for the uploaded file to import, I gave up and imported the file to a WordPress.com site instead. Took a grand total of maybe 15 minutes. Apples to apples makes things easier, I guess. I search my own blog from time to time to spark my memory or remember a tip I shared. Nice to have it all back.

All the posts and comments are there. Unfortunately, I didn’t make sure that I had absolute paths to images and so any image hosted on old blog is now broken, and some much older posts that relied on text fomatting plug-ins I experimented with look funky now. I can live with that, at least for the time being. There’s also a few miscellaneous pages I have to find a new home. My hosting account with MediaTemple isn’t gone for good until the end of the year.

* MediaTemple makes it sound like folks who had their sites attacked hadn’t updated WordPress in years. In fact, I was running whatever was the previous version released in December 2009. Would I have been more secure with 3.0? Probably, but that had only been released a month earlier. A month! If you can’t wait even a month to decide whether you want to go to the latest and greatest then something is seriously wrong somewhere. That’s what I like about Posterous and even WordPress.com now…keeping my site free of malware and vulnerabilities is their problem which they seem to take seriously, not mine.

Update: I chose wisely. After 5 days, I tried a 2nd upload using the same file that went to WordPress.com. I just got an email that my blog finished importing. Great news! the email shown below told me. But when I went to the page to see if it the import was better than what I already put in WordPress.com…not so much.