One of the requirements for WordPress 2.9.2 is MySQL 5. I was running MySQL 4.something. I like running the latest versions for security and features reasons. I know they will eventually stop supporting older versions of WordPress. My host doesn’t have a way to migrate from MySQL 4 to 5 so I created this site. My plan is to use the export/import feature of WordPress. I’ve gone through the process twice. The first time only posts from 2007 and back made it. The second time it got up to September 2009. I’ll try again soon. Hope it works. I’ll have to manually import posts otherwise.


There we go. Got all the posts on the third import. Now to start the long, laborious process of customizing the blog. To include pointing the URL to the new site, updating the themes, updating the links, and on, and on…