31 Jul 08 Weblog Migration

For some time now, we have had WordPress software available on our offsite hosting account at Dreamhost. We still have about forty weblogs internally hosted on blogs.ala.org using the b2evolution software package. For a host of system stability, security, and efficiency reasons, we’d like to have weblogs migrated off of blogs.ala.org and to Dreamhost-hosted WordPress installations as quickly as reasonably possible. If the address of your weblog begins with http://blogs.ala.org, then it will need to be migrated.

On the Tech support wiki, you will find an instruction document on how to make this migration (thanks to Stephanie Kuenn for putting this together after going through the migration process herself).  Please look the instructions over, and plan to move your weblog in the next several weeks. I of course will be happy to answer questions you may have about this process. Note that Stephanie references using an FTP site for uploading a blog theme. If your unit already has applications on Dreamhost, you should have a login and password for FTP-ing files. If not, when you request the new WordPress blog from me, I will send you the FTP information.