The dated archive is purely through the Substack importer, which does work for that purpose, even if losing the post comments is sad.
In Wordpress, if you have a feedback form, the responses to those goes to the "Feedback" tab on the main left toolbar in the Wordpress admin pane. YOU MUST DELETE ALL OF THESE FIRST. Substack treated the responses there as posts, including trying to publish names, emails and IP addresses. I had to go private while I manually deleted all of those. Whoever wrote the importer hadn't considered those.
Only the second issue is a major one and the last isn't that important. The future is more important than the past. If you're thinking of doing it, do it now, and don't wait. I should have two years ago...
Thank you, and yes, things will get sorted out. Probably I will dry up after the next few posts. The transition has mostly been straightforward, and it also helps that the important thing is simply getting started, which I should have done in 2020 when I first thought about moving to Substack. But I was slow and stupid and so am acting far later than I should have, like a woman who decides she wants a baby at age 39.
Some of the posts only allow comments from paid subscribers. I respect that if it's intentional; it just means I can't put a comment on the free book page (or related pages) about how your free book not only contains a lot of valuable information, but a Dune reference as well!
The "comments from paid subscribers only" thing is a Substack default, and there's no way to change the settings en masse. There's also no Substack API.
"Pages" (as distinct from "posts") don't appear to allow comments, for unknown reasons.
Any tools/tips you'd recommend for migrating old posts from Wordpress to Substack?
A critical feature I'd like is the dated Archive, which worked well for you.
The dated archive is purely through the Substack importer, which does work for that purpose, even if losing the post comments is sad.
In Wordpress, if you have a feedback form, the responses to those goes to the "Feedback" tab on the main left toolbar in the Wordpress admin pane. YOU MUST DELETE ALL OF THESE FIRST. Substack treated the responses there as posts, including trying to publish names, emails and IP addresses. I had to go private while I manually deleted all of those. Whoever wrote the importer hadn't considered those.
Apart from that, the default wordpress URL post path is https://blahblah.wordpress.com/01/01/2023/this-is-a-post. I should have gone into the Wordpress-generated archive and written a script to change all of the wordpress URLs to the substack version: https://blahblah.substack.com/p/this-is-a-post. That would have saved time and effort.
Only the second issue is a major one and the last isn't that important. The future is more important than the past. If you're thinking of doing it, do it now, and don't wait. I should have two years ago...
Nice to see.
And handy note, the email I got from Substack had a button to listen to the post if I downloaded their app.
Keep on rolling RedQuest
And also of note, it let me comment this time (haha!)
Thank you, and yes, things will get sorted out. Probably I will dry up after the next few posts. The transition has mostly been straightforward, and it also helps that the important thing is simply getting started, which I should have done in 2020 when I first thought about moving to Substack. But I was slow and stupid and so am acting far later than I should have, like a woman who decides she wants a baby at age 39.
One further thing of note:
Some of the posts only allow comments from paid subscribers. I respect that if it's intentional; it just means I can't put a comment on the free book page (or related pages) about how your free book not only contains a lot of valuable information, but a Dune reference as well!
The "comments from paid subscribers only" thing is a Substack default, and there's no way to change the settings en masse. There's also no Substack API.
"Pages" (as distinct from "posts") don't appear to allow comments, for unknown reasons.
Substack is better overall but has quirks.