herb miller

On 16th May 2012 I gave a presentation to the Secrets to Success networking group with a subject of “20 Secrets to Successful websites”. It was in the form of  a simple website that I had developed locally, using an early beta of WordPress 3.4.  I’ve now cloned it, twice, to a WordPress Multisite site:  http://rowlandscastlewebdesign.com/secrets-to-success-may-2012/ This is the story of why and how…

Why?

Two reasons.

1. I’d always intended to make the presentation available for all to see.
2. I needed/wanted to re-use my WordPress 3.4 local installation for a new project

So why today?

• I’ve had a request to convert a blogger site to WordPress.
• I need to know how to do it.
• Rather than create another local installation I thought I’d reuse one
• My wp34 seemed to be the place to do it
• But it contained the “presentation”
• … No time like the present

How?

Well, that’s the tricky thing. There are a multitude of plugins that you can use for backing up and migrating WordPress websites. And I don’t know which is the right solution. So I cobbled together tricks and techniques that I’d used before. Without going into detail here’s what I did

1. Cloned the site from local to www.bobbingwidepcsupport.com
2. Cloned the site from www.bobbingwidepcsupport.com to www.rowlandscastlewebdesign.com

Want a bit more detail? Then follow the above links.

What distractions were there on the way?

• Migrating from WordPress 3.4 to 3.3.1 then back up to 3.4-RC2-21026
• Running out of disk space halfway through the above
• Having to trash the first import since it can’t import attachments from localhost
• Re-reading some of my own blogger posts at http://solongandthanksforalltheghoti.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/top-10-list-of-questions-to-ask-when.html