This is the first post on the WordPress 3.0 MU server. http://wordpress.3dn.nl has now become a ‘site’ under the main blog http://3dn.nl. This is possible since 3.0 which now has the multi user functionality built in.
First there will be some transitioning stage where plugins I used on the old http://wordpress.3dn.nl will be enabled on this site, so it’s possible that this site will look off for a while. Please bear with me, I’m still trying to figure this out.
The migration was fairly simple. I probably could have done it even simpler by just starting with the old database and migrating that to 3.0 but I decided to have 3.0 running in parallel with 2.9 for a while when I tackle the Debian way. I first created a MU site called http://wordpress.3dn.nl and tested that to work. Then I went on to export (using Tools -> Export) in the wp-admin screen, which gave me an XML file. Then I imported this into wordpress.3dn.nl and checked the box to import attachments as well. The latter tries to fetch the attachments using the URL; since this has http://wordpress… in it, I had to temporarily leave the old server running. After it imported I renamed wordpress.3dn.nl and disabled the old wordpress.3dn.nl
I fully expect some plugins not to work. The first one I found not to work properly is the linkedin resume plugin. Peculiarly it failed at updating the settings. I also found EHT graphviz not to work, in fact it messed up the whole admin section.
There are still some major glitches on the site but I’ve decided to go for it as some problems may be related to having a different site name.
