{"id":952,"date":"2010-09-27T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:18:39","slug":"microsoft-moves-blogs-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/microsoft-moves-blogs-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft moves Blogs to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the TechCrunch Disrupt event today, Twitter user,<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bigs\/\"> @bigs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bigs\/statuses\/25708938261\">broke the news that Microsoft announced that it would be moving over 30 million users<\/a> of their Live blogging service to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a WordPress expert that has had to work on WordPress in a Windows environment there is one big gotcha: character encoding.<\/p>\n<p>Here are what common characters look like when they are moved from a Windows environment to WordPress:<\/p>\n<p>a return: ^M<br \/>\nsingle-quotes: ?~@~Y<br \/>\nasterisk: ?~@?<br \/>\ndouble-quotes: ?~@~\\ or ?~@~]<\/p>\n<p>If the WordPress migration process is robust, then it will translate these characters correctly into UTF-8 or something friendly like that.<\/p>\n<p>Live users will definitely welcome the link schema and permalinks on WordPress. Instead of<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/cid-d4909e7f27e254e9.profile.live.com\/<\/p>\n<p>a user will get<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/barce.wordpress.com\/ .<\/p>\n<p>Also WordPress users can now link their accounts to MSN Messenger so that they can update their MSN friends or co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a Windows Live Blogging user? How&#8217;d your upgrade process go? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the TechCrunch Disrupt event today, Twitter user, @bigs, broke the news that Microsoft announced that it would be moving over 30 million users of their Live blogging service to WordPress. As a WordPress expert that has had to work on WordPress in a Windows environment there is one big gotcha: character encoding. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,5,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-techbiz","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}