Gajes of the migration to Geofumadas.com

Finally, the database is almost clean after a migration from Wordpress MU in Cartesians to a domain hosted in Cpanel. To do this, various plugins and access to phpmyadmin have kept me entertained. 

Several days - And nights - to come and go. Here I summarize a few lines, after I think I am finally ready to write again.

• Being a Wordpress-mu-1.2.4 version and moving to a WordPress 3.0.4 version, there are many things in the way that were not a simple export/import.
• Accessing the database was valuable, to erase a beast of things that remain in the garbage can but as long as they are not eliminated from there, they add weight. I noticed it because although I had removed spam, the export took a long time, and I feel that in those versions it has a gap because new spam still slipped through.
• Akismet It's a big help, it saves being erasing spam in the comments. 
• Broken link checker it is a very good help to identify and repair links that no longer exist. It's funny, but not updating those links makes the domains lose the ranking. Pages that no longer live, that changed their structure, that made their links friendlier, comments with invalid urls, finger errors, in short. The plugin was a great help, it has been useful for me to learn about many things that I wrote and that now no longer exist.
• The current versions of the Import plugin they have the option to move the images from the gallery to the new domain. But for many reasons not all of them come, for example if they had been hosted in another domain, those do not come, neither the images that were placed in a different structure than the conventional one nor those that are with thumbnails. 
• The plugin has been very useful Add Linkded Images to Gallery. This does the job of looking for non-imported images and bringing them, with the disadvantage that it does not have an instance to warn why it is hanging, I thought it was because it was too content, so I was doing it by categories, but they never passed AutoCAD or Topography. The whole thing was because I had already used up the storage space and the fucking plugin could not warn. I noticed it when I wanted to create a new folder from Cpanel, that the message appeared; I asked for it to be enlarged and everything started again.
• The battle of death has been with the TimThumb script, which requires adjusting the rights in the wp-content folders and others within the Arthemia template (script and cache). Finally after reading in many forums, juggling unnecessary, that was all that was taken. It seems that going from WP MU affects a few things and touching the .htaccess was what I least expected.
• I still have to fix the permalinks, because I changed the structure to make the links more friendly with the search engines. For this the plugin Permalinks Migration Is doing a great job in redirecting, and once I find a pattern I will see if I fix them all from the database.
• Seo friendly images Helped me because many pictures had no description or had little useful value.

Now comes the good, as long as I follow up on broken links, you have to continue with the optimization plan.