Author: sroot
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Technical notes on migrating from MovableType to WordPress
Having just migrated from MovableType to WordPress here are my notes just in case they help anyone else. Time it’s taken from empty wordpress to viewing complete posts: about 6 hours Time it would take to do now knowing exactly how to solve problems: about 1 hour Time you need to allow…. decide for yourself…
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Goodbye MovableType, hello WordPress
Finally I’ve got around to updating my blog from MovableType to WordPress. If you’re looking at this today (and maybe for another month.. or year) you’ll see the template is still the default WordPress template. Eventually I’ll update it but for now at least the content from all the old posts is still visible. The…
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Mail merge onto a PDF background
Some days, I love computers. Days like today, where we want send a mailshot to 900 past customers. I got the address list from our MS Access database. I got a PDF of the artwork. What I wanted to do was create a mail merge using the PDF as a background. Libreoffice/Openoffice didn’t seem to…