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Moving your Wordpress site to a new URI?  If so, you will need to update the database entries that are specific to your new URI.  Some solutions to making global data changes:
Solution A – pre-import data massage

export the SQL data from the current site
make changes via a ’stream editor’ like ’sed’ (replace all instances of [...]

I have not found a simple way to batch import  image files into Worpdress – I have a few thousand images myself so finding a ‘good solution’ would be welcome.  
The out-of-the box Wordpress image-import solution does allow for ‘batch’ import of images via the Flash uploader; there is a limit to the [...]

As previously posted if you have a small web site (i.e. fewer than 20 pages) then manually copying your pages and uploading your images/media might be the best & simplest solution to moving to a Wordpress solution.  If you have more than pages & media files than you care to manually upload then you might [...]

I previously posted about migrating static pages to Drupal – in this post I will explore importing/migrating data into Wordpress.
Solution A – a simple approach to import new POSTS from static HTML files.
At this time, Wordpress is one of the best documented (IMO) Open Source solutions – the project’s information sharing model is a great [...]

If you have a number of old web sites or even a significant number of static HTML web pages then you may decide that moving them into a web based content management system (CMS) or even a blog might provide a benefit.

First, reasons NOT to migrate:

• not enough time, money, resources
• static pages actually ‘perform’ better (i.e. they will display faster since there are no, or fewer, dynamic components); in fact, many

As noted elsewhere I planned to try Drupal a few months back.  This is actually my third look at it – I found it to be less than ready for my needs during previous views (~2003-2006.)  I will attempt to install and use this solution without putting on my TSH (trouble shooting hat.)

With Open Source projects it is quite common to encounter hurdles with even simple things, like installing the

Ok, the first 30 days have passed with few issues.  Overall I’m very impressed with Wordpress and I think that it’s a great solution for anyone wanting to try their hand at web publishing.  During the next ~30 days I’m going to give Drupal a test.  While Wordpress has many base features and can