Several things may be driving you crazy but, if links, text files and bookmarks are one of them, I have some help for you! (Little things help a lot, right?)

After spending a lot of time trying to import my old WordPress bookmarks into Joomla I found the best way was to create a text file with just the links, all code scraped out. Then create a new file with Notepad using the code I have cut and pasted in a screenshot below:

Screenshot from It Still Works.

Cut and pasted the text also, because I've seen how easy images disappear, wander off and generally get lost. I want to remember how I finally got this far, no doubt I will need to do the same again with other links from my other sites moving from WordPress to Joomla. 

If you feel confident with HTML, you can create a bookmark file from scratch in Notepad. Begin the document with . Then, enter the title asand the header as

Bookmarks

. Then, begin a list with the

tag. Each item of that list should be denoted by a

tag. Then, describe the link via an tag. For example, if you wished to create a bookmark link to http://www.google.com, your tags after

would look like this:

Google

. Finish the file with a closing

tag.

So, maybe this will help you, or you may just wonder why someone would do things this way and spend so much time on links few people will actually look at anyway.

Keep wondering, it's good for you.

Just moved the site over from WordPress to b2evolution. People have asked me why, a few times. There are a few reasons. But, for now I am fixing glitches with moving to another CMS. I like b2 and I don't think it will take me long to get to know how it works and where things are now. Meanwhile, images are mostly not working. Categories and tags did not make the import, not sure why. So I am manually going through my posts one by one to renovate a little. What usually happens when you move to a new place... you renovate to make it look more like the old place. :) People are funny like that.

Making my life easier, I have added comments from the original post to this post. I have been moving my site content to Joomla. It's a different set up from WordPress and b2evolution but I think it will be more active and user friendly.  Still need to fix the images with posts (that was mangled by WordPress) and add my links which I will end up doing manually, one at a time. But, I hope this will end the project of moving from WordPress to some other CMS. It has been a longer adventure than I expected.

Here are the comments:

Comment from: Jane Gassner [Visitor]

I lost the entire archive of MidLifeBloggers.com and JaneGassner.com sometime during the holiday season. It was one of those, "you only have 24 hours to migrate" and for various reasons, I got in at the 25th hour. I couldn't decide how upset I should/would be. MidLifeBloggers was a longterm venture that still got a lot of hits. JaneGassner.com, not so much. But MidLifeBloggers was old business, and I had said everything I wanted to about midlife and beyond. Jane Gassner had the potential to be new and, if not shiny, then gaining a slight glow about it after time. So I'm redoing JaneGassner.com but starting anew. It's springtime, and perhaps that's influencing me to not try to make it as it was. Considering that it wasn't that successful, it's probably a wise decision.

03/28/17 @ 09:27 pm

Comment from: laura [Member]

I really like history so that part of it would be hard for me. But, I have thought about just starting fresh too. Moving a site is never completely smooth and simple but I've been trying to move old content and have not made time to write new posts. That is kind of backwards. Starting fresh might have been better than trying to preserve old content (that mostly only matters to me).

03/29/17 @ 12:18 pm

Comment from: laura [Member]

I like your new site. Writing something for writers has it's own challenge. It makes me doubt myself and compare myself with others too much. I thought about closing this site. But, I do like writing it. So... here it still is.

You have doubled images in posts with WordPress featured image. I kept having that problem too.

This is from my old Live Journal posts.

LiveJournal has a very nice bookmarklet but with my web browser, Chrome, bookmarklets tend to fall off the screen too soon. I'm going to try an application instead. But, it hasn't been updated since 2011. Time flies online.

I'm not girly girl, I am a bit of a loner and I must be watered at least weekly and set in a partially sunny window. Zone 3 to 4.

Semagic is working.

LiveJournal doesn't have categories for niche topics but the tags will work. I'm going to see how LJ will work for me as a hub for content curation. I've got my own sites but they don't cover everything that catches my interest. Especially as my interest tends to wander around a lot. Maybe I can move a lot of my efforts from Scoop.it to LiveJournal. Scoop.it has become more focused on business, SEO, marketing and commercialism and anything personal seems to be unwanted (in spite of what they say, or used to say).

I was trying to do the same on Blogger but there is so little support there, no new features and updates to the old. Seems Google is just waiting for Blogger to finish dying so they can close it down and not step on too many toes. But, I won't bad mouth Google, too much. They did save the old newsgroups! They still live on in Google Groups. I hope they will be well archived if ever Google stops wanting to keep them.

The real question is - How do Wookies type with all that hair on their fingers? Once you get past that go ahead and read the questions and answers Kilted Wookie posted for this distinguished award in blogging neatness. To follow are the questions I answered when it was my turn and last - the questions and nominees I've passed this award along to.

1. How did you come across your blogging persona?
2. What inspired you to write your first blog?
3. What is your greatest unfulfilled fantasy/dream?
4. What has blogging taught you about yourself?
5. How many "real life" people know you are a blogger and how did it make you feel when you discovered they knew?
6. Lights on or off?
7. What do you normally wear in bed?

Source: A Real Neat Blog? | A Kilted Wookie Writes...

How did you come across your blogging persona?

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