This install of WordPress is 2.8 – a number of minor versions from where I was.  The work done on this product is pretty impressive, the Dashboard and management tools behind the scenes are slick, well designed, and easy to use.  The plugin and widget implementation have removed almost all my desire to tinker with the raw theme editor tools.

Of particular interest is the “import” capabilities.  You can now import content from old blog implementations, which is nice for someone like me that has reimplemented and somewhat abandoned installs over the years.  There are some rough spots.  My personal page import from Blogger only grabs 16 posts for some reason, leavin me with a cut & paste job on dozens of pages.  I found my old notes on “modblog”, another experiment long since died, but the Internet Archives had most of the articles and I’m pulling them over manually.

I also found a database backup from an old WordPress install on my home machine.  Able to load the data into MySQL, but alas, no WordPress install old enough to use it.  So, more cut & paste.

Hardly worth it for my little musings, but I’d rather load the content and get it onto this one server.