Postnuke to Zikula with minimum disruption

Everyone who uses Postnuke and is upgrading to Zikula are going to go through the pain of lost links, indexed pages, and so on.

It was precisely for this reason that I held back for a long time too.

However, Zikula is better than Postnuke, and eventually, there comes a time to commit to the move, or start losing interest in the whole system itself, particularly since nothing is happening with Postnuke anymore.

There are some problems I faced, and some solutions I found, which I will be sharing in a series of posts here.

• The first, and key thing to do is to make a copy of your current sitemap, so that you have all the links.
• Do the upgrade as instructed after backing up the site.
• Go through your modules list with a fine toothed comb, and test them - navigate, access, edit, etc. Upgrade all those that have upgrades.
• Identify the ones that can't be upgraded and deactivate them for now.
• Navigate through your site and see which blocks don't show, which links don't work, and so on.
• Create a list of everything that is going wrong.

In the next posts, we will deal with some of the most urgent aspects of getting your site back into functioning for most visitors coming there rather than 404 pages and inexplicable issues.

Wordpress 2.8.1 Editor Problems?

Symptoms:

1. You upgrade your wordpress. Things are good
2. Suddenly, you go to make a new post, or edit an existing one, and voila, it opens with html code.
3. So you click on the 'visual' tab, of course.
4. Nothing whatsoever happens.

Other symptoms -

1. White text on white background - its there, just not visible.
2. Tough to upload/edit images
3. Tough to assign tags
4. Some issue with moving widgets around.....
   

Everybody and his cousin knew that there was a problem with the text editor in 2.8.0. You have gone from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1. surely this is not happening to you?

So what has really happened? My suspicion is that since they took out the fancy editor in 2.8.1, for some reason, your broswer cache lets it seem to work for a while longer than it actually does, so when it finally clears and you don't have it anymore, you don't even think of the update, since it had seemed to work since then.

What you have lost is just the fancy editor.

Never fear, when this nerd in progress is here!

Do so:

1. Upgrade your Firefox - for some reason, I observed that wherever people having this problem spoke about their browsers, there was mention of outdated versions of firefox. Wondered if they were linked for quite a while before giving it a shot - it worked. Didn't solve the problem completely, but it was much better, and I was then able to solve it easily.
2. You will now be able to see clearly where you stand with this. You will notice the difference between the html and visual views, and both will function, though without the editor - so you have one with bbcode kind of mark up and html.
3. Install the FCKEditor plugin.
   
4. Done.