exporting blog contents to a cd-rom interface?

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    natkof · Member ·

    Hi, I’m trying to figure out the best way to approach this. We have a blog that we used as a website to host information on a conference that happened a while ago: atelierbad.wordpress.com

    Now we’d like to be able to mail cd-roms of the content of the site (with the wordpress html pages) to participants. In the past I’ve done this using dreamweaver, etc. and been able to burn all the pages & files, then create an autorun.inf file that makes it feel just like navigating a page online. I thought I’d be able to export the contents of the blog with the export command, but it appears it’s more complicated than that.

    Any idea how i’d be able to do this? Would I have to export everything and convert it to wordpress.org? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

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    katm · Member ·

    A local install of the WordPress software would get you the content, but not the theme you’re using and maybe your not sidebars.

    For fun (yes, I’m a geek) I used wget in Linux to make an exact mirror of my blog. It lived locally on my hard drive and I could browse it the same as if I were on the net (with the exception of external links). You can probably do the same using cygwin (it’s a *nix environment that runs inside of Windows). The syntax was easy. If you email me through my blog, I can give you more details.

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    natkof · Member ·

    thanks. I found this: http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetFiles.htm which seems to be wget for windows, though I’m not sure I’m computer literate enough to actually use the thing (I’m pretty much just a basic user). I’ll explore this as an option though. if anyone else knows other ways to deal with this issue I’d be glad to hear them!

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    katm · Member ·

    Yup. That’s a ready to go program. I don’t have a Windows machine up and running right now so I can’t take a look at it.

    If there’s no pointy clicky interface for you, then try

    wget -mk -w 20 http://atelierbad.wordpress.com/

    It makes a mirror with links pointing internally with a 20 second delay between requests.

    If you can’t figure it out, email me and I can do the wget for you, zip it up and send it to you.

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    natkof · Member ·

    Thanks so much! very kind of you. Will give it a shot.

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    mark · Member ·

    It’ll cost slightly more but it’ll work with less hassle – put it on a USB device.

    http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/usb/

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    katm · Member ·

    That’s cool Mark :-)

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