[openspending-dev] Help us migrate OpenSpending blog to Wordpress

Thu Jun 27 01:44:34 UTC 2013

There's (at least) an XMLRPC interface for programmatically adding new
posts to Wordpress; the method is metaWeblog.newPost, but it inherits PHP's
broken handling of XML, so you may or may not want to render the markdown
yourself.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Andy Lulham <a.lulham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> This seems like something I could help with :)
>
> I’ve made a start here:
> https://gist.github.com/andylolz/5872384
>
> Just an unfinished gist at the moment, but hopefully a useful start.
>
> Perhaps this feature could be added to
> https://github.com/openspending/dotorg/issues ? Is the new wordpress
> version going into a branch on that repo?
>
> Best,
> Andy
> --
> Andy Lulham (@andylolz)
>
> On 25 June 2013 18:46, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi Rufus,
> >
> > All blogposts are available on github here: openspending dotorg blog
> posts.
> >
> > The *first* blog post that needs to be migrated is Technology for
> > Transparent and Accountable Public Finance
> >
> > Blogposts published from May 2012 and onwards should be migrated from
> > markdown to Wordpress.
> >
> > Anders
> >
> > On 25 June 2013 13:27, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Anders,
> >>
> >> Could you point to the exact location in github where the current posts
> >> are. Could you also identify the *first* post that is in github that is
> not
> >> in blog.openspending.org?
> >>
> >> Rufus
> >>
> >>
> >> On 25 June 2013 15:52, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> All,
> >>>
> >>> The OpenSpending blog will be moving to wordpress and we'll therefore
> >>> need to migrate several blog posts from markdown (at
> openspending.org/blog)
> >>> to wordpress (at blog.openspending.org). For this adventure we'd
> really
> >>> appreciate your help.
> >>>
> >>> You can help by working on the script based on python wrapper or
> >>> something else.
> >>>
> >>> We'll meet on IRC channel: #openspending Thursday 27 June at 11 CET /
> 10
> >>> BST / other time zones. If you want to help, but cannot join on this
> time,
> >>> just go ahead and let us know what wou want to work on. Any help is
> much
> >>> welcome!
> >>>
> >>> Anders
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>
> >> Rufus Pollock
> >>
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> >
> > Anders Pedersen
> >
> > Community Coordinator  |  skype: anpehej  |  @anpe
> >
> > The Open Knowledge Foundation
> >
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> >
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> >
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