Moving your blog to Community Server 2007. Blog Mover 0.1
As you may know, I got another blog at the ASP.NET mother ship. I was thinking last weekend to move all my posts from this blog to the ASP.NET blogs. However after 2 days of keep thinking about it I made the choice to keep both blogs.
I'll be using http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual for all my ASP.NET posts and code and I'll be using http://alpascual.com/blog/al for blogging more about thoughts and technology news, that lately I have been pretty interested. I really hope that you would subscribe to both. I also wanted to keep my version of Community Server 2007 as I love to play with it. I have more control and I can add whatever I want to this great web application. If you have installed Community Server 2007 instead of being just a user, you know how powerful and easy is to add your own stuff. Far superior to any other blog providers.
In the same thought, I created a Windows application to move blogs around to another blog. I believe that is very important to do that, for people that found a much better blog place to host their posts and want to move. Most of the time, you stay using a blog because you cannot move your posts. Well, this is my view of a solution for this people. I created the Blog Mover version 0.1
What's Blog mover 0.1
A simple Windows Application that points to your old blog, and new blog and moves all the posts. Right now has the limitation that only works on Community Server, I'll be adding other blog providers as people requires them.
Screen Shot
How to use it
Very simple, however there is a catch to export everything from Community Server, you need to have access to the administration and go to: Administration -> Blogs -> Default Settings -> and change the Service Post Count Limit to a number equal or bigger than the posts on your blog.
Then just add the information required on the from end and example is provided and press the Process button.
Where to download
Download the Blog Mover version 0.1 here
What's next
I'll be adding error handling as well as more blog providers. Any questions are request, please leave a comment on my blog.
Cheers
Al