Dates appear to be working correctly in my test environment. There are two steps that I needed to take. The first was to make sure that dates are sent as UTC format over the XML-RPC API. The second step was a handy little Time Zone plugin. Once activated, I entered EST5EDT for my Time zone. I was also able to enter America/New_York and it handled it the same way.
I have been a little concerned over how I would be able to link posts from my blogspot blog over to the new blog. I appended the post identification in a comment in each post. This way, I can send a link over to the search results and search for that tag. Here is an example of one of the tags:
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179070.post-112817586244792334
And this is the URL that I would use:
http://www.lewismoten.com/index.php?s=post-112817586244792334
One other thing that I have been working on is giving everyone credit for there posts. Both my wife and I post to my blogspot blog. She makes guest appearances every now and then, so I created two additional accounts besides the administrative account. I had to promote the levels of our accounts up to at least 5 before I would be able to post via XML-RPC.
I also consolidated my category to list 11 items:
- Hobbies
- Blogging
- Computers
- Entertainment
- Programming
- Communications
- Employment
- Finances
- Friends and Family
Miscellaneous is the default category here. If a post doesn’t fit anywhere else, it goes there.
The last few things on my list of things to do is to muck around with comments and the template. Once that is ready, I’m in business to go public. Comments are going to be tricky since I can’t find anything in the XML-RPC file to post them. I may have to do a little programming here, as I can’t connect directly to the MySQL database either.
Tags: WordPress, XML-RPC, Exporting, Categories, Time zones, Dates