While marketing Farmhouse Networking to the city of Grants Pass via the old fashioned method of knocking on doors, I came across a local company that does SEO for website and social media management. They are called Moving Mountains and though based in Grants Pass, OR they are really a global presence thanks to social media and marketing via SEO on Google. While speaking to the owner of this company I was pointed in the direction of a WordPress migration for my blog and eventually my whole site. After some consideration, I decided to take the plunge and learned the basics of WordPress and SEO to bring my readers a better experience than the old Serendipity blog could offer.

Serendipity to WordPress Migration

Export the Current Serendipity Blog to RSS

1. Make the following change to the rss.php file in the Seredipity blog install directory:
   

   serendipity_printEntries_rss($entries, $version, $comments, $metadata[‘fullFeed’], $metadata[‘showMail’]);

   Above this line type in the following:

   $metadata[‘fullFeed’] = true;

2. Login to Serendipity Admin Console
3. Click on Maintenance in the left hand menu
4. Click on Export full RSS feed
   

Fix the RSS encoding

1. Open the RSS feed in your favorite text editor
2. Perform a search and replace for the following:
   

   > replace with >
   &lt; replace with <
   &quot; replace with "

Fix Time-out Issue

• Add the following to the top of the admin.php file in the admin folder in the WordPress install directory:
  

  add set_time_limit(0);