Successfully ported my site from 5.6 to 5.7
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Hello :-)
After some weeks of hard work, I successfully ported my site from 5.6 to 5.7!
May I present:https://www.pfotenfotografie.at... :-))
If I would have known, how much work I will have, I probably would have stayed at version 5.6...
One of my basic problems was, that I have some photos, that have a very good ranking at Google, so my biggest aim was, that no image URL should change. For that I copied the files directory, exported all relevant (file)tables from 5.6, changed the SQL and imported to the new site. At the end re-read all images that the attributes are set correctly. But there was still the problem that files are now in the "application" folder, so my first idea was to make a symbolic link. But C5 has a great feature called File Storage Locations. So I just made a new File Storage Locations, and that works perfectly!
For the content I used the migration tool. After many many tries I could import the pages with (content) blocks without having to edit too much afterwards. But there was still the problem that I have many guestbook entries. But this is now replaced with conversations. So again, export the tables, write a script to generate a SQL script so I can import to conversation tables. That also worked fine!
Since version 5.7 has a very nice new "Elemental" HTML template, I threw aways my old templates and made everything new with this template. Lot of detail work, but at the end it looks quite ok.
The date_nav block was replaced with a new one. But I liked the older one more. So I migrated that block to the new version.
At the end, because I could not find a nice gallery in the marketplace, I made my own one using the lightGallery plugin.
Now I am really happy with version 5.7! One great feature are the thumbnails for different resolutions and that you can edit the thumbnails if the default clipping is not good.
Things I dont't like:
- You can't edit the title if you mass-import images. If i import some hundred images from an event, they all should have the same title and not the filename. I have no solution for that so i do it in SQL...
- The WYSIWYG editor is too simple. I cannot set the image to specific resolution or set a margin or padding. Also when editing the Alt tag, the HTML sometimes gets messed up.
- Although using https, the site did not always use https in the generated links. I had to make a redirect rule in the .htaccess file for this to work
- No database export. There is a menu for it, can execute it and THEN it says it's not implemented???
At the end I would like to thank all concrete5 developers for that nice CMS! Looking forward to version 5.8 to have folders for files!!
Cheers from Austria,
Harald
After some weeks of hard work, I successfully ported my site from 5.6 to 5.7!
May I present:https://www.pfotenfotografie.at... :-))
If I would have known, how much work I will have, I probably would have stayed at version 5.6...
One of my basic problems was, that I have some photos, that have a very good ranking at Google, so my biggest aim was, that no image URL should change. For that I copied the files directory, exported all relevant (file)tables from 5.6, changed the SQL and imported to the new site. At the end re-read all images that the attributes are set correctly. But there was still the problem that files are now in the "application" folder, so my first idea was to make a symbolic link. But C5 has a great feature called File Storage Locations. So I just made a new File Storage Locations, and that works perfectly!
For the content I used the migration tool. After many many tries I could import the pages with (content) blocks without having to edit too much afterwards. But there was still the problem that I have many guestbook entries. But this is now replaced with conversations. So again, export the tables, write a script to generate a SQL script so I can import to conversation tables. That also worked fine!
Since version 5.7 has a very nice new "Elemental" HTML template, I threw aways my old templates and made everything new with this template. Lot of detail work, but at the end it looks quite ok.
The date_nav block was replaced with a new one. But I liked the older one more. So I migrated that block to the new version.
At the end, because I could not find a nice gallery in the marketplace, I made my own one using the lightGallery plugin.
Now I am really happy with version 5.7! One great feature are the thumbnails for different resolutions and that you can edit the thumbnails if the default clipping is not good.
Things I dont't like:
- You can't edit the title if you mass-import images. If i import some hundred images from an event, they all should have the same title and not the filename. I have no solution for that so i do it in SQL...
- The WYSIWYG editor is too simple. I cannot set the image to specific resolution or set a margin or padding. Also when editing the Alt tag, the HTML sometimes gets messed up.
- Although using https, the site did not always use https in the generated links. I had to make a redirect rule in the .htaccess file for this to work
- No database export. There is a menu for it, can execute it and THEN it says it's not implemented???
At the end I would like to thank all concrete5 developers for that nice CMS! Looking forward to version 5.8 to have folders for files!!
Cheers from Austria,
Harald
Well done.