As I've said already, I’m slowly moving all of the posts over from my PostNuke site.  It's taking much longer than I thought.  Many of the old posts have some level of formatting in them that will not work with the new site, including invalid XHTML or specific formatting that was based specifically on the PostNuke theme.  What does that mean?  Essentially it means that I have to edit and reformat each post as I move it over.

Why not do a search and replace on the database export and import the updated entries?  That would work only if all of the formatting corrections were the same, but they're not.  And that doesn't take into account the issue with links back to my own site (those posts that reference previous posts, articles, gallery pages or other content.  Since the permalinks on the site have all changes with the implementation of WordPress, I have to manually update every link — but that's only possible after I've moved the linked material into the new site.

Tedious and arduous work, it is, and it's taking me longer than I thought because I don't have a lot of time to sit and read every post, edit it appropriately, then move it over.  Oh, and I have to move the comments manually as well, including updating ownership and post times (something I also have to do on the content as I move it over).

But, it's interesting to go back and see some of those old posts.  What the hell was I thinking?  Sometimes I have to wonder…

Anyway, 169 posts moved over.  493 more to go.