As is customary for those who’ve converted from WordPress to Octopress, here’s a quick post about my experience converting this blog.

Getting the blog up and running was a cinch, especially with a good example to examine when I had questions.

Converting old entries

To convert my WordPress entries, I turned to exitwp. It worked pretty well, but I ran into two issues.

The first was that the YAML blob at the top of the converted posts wasn’t formatted correctly.