Our blog is now using Mephisto (0.7.2). I had a few problems getting the conversion to behave. I have tested the comments and everything seems to be working fine.

For those that are interested, I had a few issues converting our blog from Typo. Here are some tips on how to convert it.

• The typo conversion does not import the sections / categories. I had to add the categories manually and re-allocate all the articles to the categories.
• All of the user were converted, but the admin user was allocated to all the articles.
• The layout system can be a bit of a pain, especially working on the home page. Some times you need to delete the index.html to see the changes.
• The wiki is ok as a resource, the google group is better.
• Here is a snippet of our layout.liquid template that contains code for the sidebar to display monthly archive, category archive and last 5 comments.

Recent Comments

{{ site | latest_comments:5 | assign_to:”comments” }}

{% for comment in comments %}
• {{ comment.author }} on {{comment | link_to_article: article.comment }}

{% endfor %}

Categories

{% for section in site.sections %}
• {{ section.name }} ({{section.articles_count }})

{% endfor %}

{% endif %}


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