While this blog is still in draft form, I’ve taken the opportunity to import old posts published on the Australian Women Writers Blogger site.
Unfortunately, the importing hasn’t been trouble free. WordPress has managed to import titles and labels (which is mistakenly identifies as “categories”, rather than “tags”), but no content. This means I’ve ended up having to cut and paste individual posts.
The cutting and pasting hasn’t been seamless, either. Much of the original posts’ formatting gets lost in the process, and it’s tedious work to reformat when I’ve still to work out the code to get basic things like paragraphing.
So, apologies to anyone who has followed this blog, especially if you’ve suddenly been inundated with a list of old – blank or wonky – posts. I’m working on it!
The following photo has nothing whatsoever to do with the content of this update, but it did give me my title.
Adaminaby, August 2012
(photo by Rodney Weidland, used with permission)
Ah Elizabeth, I guessed that’s what you were doing and it seemed that things weren’t going wonderfully smoothly. Do you want any help with formatting?
Also, does it matter re Categories Vs Tags? Have we decided how we want to use them? I use both on my blog – categories for big picture things (like Review-Novels, Review-Short Stories) and tags for more specific things (like author names, or types/genre of literature such as Coming of age novels).
Hi Sue, Thanks for the feedback. Help with reformatting the line lengths and paragraphing for posts would be very welcome. I’ll send through an invitation for you to become an editor. (No one else if working on the site currently, so it shouldn’t be too slow.) There’s plenty of time to get it right, and if a few of us pitch in it shouldn’t be too difficult.
For some reason, pressing “return”/”enter” in draft mode doesn’t appear to enter a line break. I think I might have to bracket paragraphs with “em” and “/em”? Still working it out.
Also, I must warn you, the code from Blogger is often very messy as it includes a lot of cut-and-paste formatting from contributors. (Holly and Tsana won’t be impressed!)
I found the WP category converter that converted Blogger’s labels to tags (not before I’d deleted a few, unfortunately). I’m leaving the broad categories for the ones that roughly reflect the feeds to which readers will be able to subscribe once the domain name change comes into effect, including “Classics or Literary”, “Histories” (Yvonne’s preferred catch all for historical nonfiction, memoir and biography), “Crime”, “Speculative Fiction” etc.
I’m glad we have plenty of lead time. Now to rediscover where I can invite contributors!
Great … Nice I’m in we can discuss who’ll work on what.
The draft mode does do return/enter para breaks for me. Must be something to do with blogger formatting that’s coming across.anyhow, I’ll have a look.