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Submitted by Leiela on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 02:06.
Hey hun,
I was wondering i know you used Wordpress.org for your site so i was wondering if you could help. (or anyone who use's wordpress tbh)
At the moment im using the free version of Wordpress at Wordpress.com for my blog and to date it's always worked fine, however im becoming abit disgruntled by how limited i am on the amount of customization im allowed to do.
Namely Wordpress.com barf's the minute you try and give posts dates pre-1970 and i'd like to be able to date them in the past (ie when they are supposted to have happened) rather than the date i posted them to the site.
I've looked at other ways of doing this and it seems Wordpress such as imbeding a timeline or external calander into the site and then linking posts to that for the "happened date" and it seems the free version isn't capable of doing anything even remotly like this.
It's taken me the best part of 2 weeks getting the site upto the stage it's at now ie (re-working all my catagories and adding a storylines section) and i noticed you use a "events calander" on your site leading me to belive Wordpress.Org is cabable of doing what i need??
Now sadly im not too technical, is it super hard to transfer a blog to wordpress.org? also how much work should i be expecting to get it looking "as it currently is" on wordpress.com? i just abit nervous of paying for a site when im not sure if getting it all setup isn't beyond me.
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Submitted by Lothere on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 04:53.My site is no longer run by WordPress... I rewrote the entire software myself. (I am a software developer by day.) The thing that really got to me was the problem with dates: I modified the WordPress code to make it accept dates before 1970, but this meant that I couldn't upgrade my WordPress installation when they fixed bugs or security holes, because I would have to REMODIFY the code again, and again, and again.
Sadly, WordPress would be capable of showing dates before 1970 if they wanted it to be, because the database is capable of supporting it. But WordPress is a blogging software, not a story-writing software, and nobody blogs in the past.
WordPress can be quite powerful though... there are lots and lots of plugins you can install to add functionality that it doesn't provide "out of the box". I know there are plugins you can use to add "custom fields" to posts, which should allow you to add custom dates... but I don't know how to integrate that into the page, or sort or search by that field, or anything. It would probably still require some custom work.
A plain ordinary WordPress installation is meant to be fairly easy though. It should be possible for you to export your blog from WordPress.com into a giant XML file, and then import it into a new WordPress blog. (Hopefully your blog is not too big for that by now!) I would imagine that they have set things up to make that an easy step to take. But I've never tried it.
Likewise with themes... there are so many beautiful WordPress themes out there, and they're usually as easy to install as uploading some files to your server and activating in your control panel.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. It's been over a year since I've seriously looked at WordPress, and my version was getting stale even then. I don't like to be discouraging -- and WordPress is in fact easy to set up and use if you're just starting out and don't need any custom modifications -- but depending on your level of technical skills (and level of dedication to the task) a migration of your blog to a new server that you control might be more than you want to take on. At least, given that features such as dates before 1970 won't be there if you do. :-/