Hi. I’m checking out Typo, with an eye to switching my WordPress blog
away
from it. It’s neat that there’s a WordPress converter, but it doesn’t
seem
to go as far as it could. The first three issues I’ve found:
- It didn’t honor the ‘more’ line in my WordPress posts, although it
did
copy the ‘more’ line over. If I go to each post’s edit page and then
save it
without making any edits, the ‘more’ line takes effect. - It copied all my spam comments over from WordPress, but didn’t mark
them as spam in Typo. That’s how I got 304 comments on a pretty
obscure
post. - When I went to look at the post with 304 comments, it took long
enough
that I opted to shut down the server instead. It’s not surprising
that 304
comments would take a long time, but it turns out generating HTML for
just
one comment takes roughly 30 seconds. It was a long comment, but
that’s
excessive.
I’d be happy to try to help fix any or all of these - I think I have a
grip
on the first two problems already. I wanted to get some guidance on a
few
things:
- It seems the slow part of rendering those comments is BlueCloth.
First,
I don’t think these comments are even in Markdown (the legit ones or
the
spam). It looks like the default in WordPress is “HTML plus
blank-lines-indicate-paragraphs”. Should I just set the filter for
these
comments to something else? (If so, what?) - Is BlueCloth really this slow? I noticed that last week marked the
release of BlueCloth 2, which speeds things up dramatically by using
Discount (written in C). Is there any interest in updating Typo to
include
this new version? - There don’t seem to be any tests for the converters, and I intend
to
uphold that tradition. I also don’t plan to get my hands on a
WordPress 2.5
database; I’m using 2.6. Should I just copy the wp25 converter to
wp26, make
it work for me, and leave wp25 alone?
Thanks
–Erik Ostrom
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