#Wrizzit, like #Substack, is a global blogging platform with all the requisite social features necessary to make it popular for readers and writers alike. Slimlines is a small, independant website framework that can be used to create a wide variety of websites and standalone blogs. With the new Wrizzit plugin, it is easy to use Slimlines to create an archival copy of your Wrizzit blog. Read on to learn how to download your Wrizzit data and the Slimlines desktop application, and how to run it (no configuration necessary). The entire process, takes less than a minute.

Demonstration

To demonstrate what a typical exported and converted Wrizzit blog looks like, I've put mine online as an example.

Below is a side-by-side comparison of the main index pages for both Wrizzit on the left, and Slimlines on the right.

Importing Wrizzit

1. Download Slimlines (1.3 Kb)
2. Extract the downloaded file ( slimlines_nnn.zip ) into any folder. It will create a subfolder ( /slimlines ).
3. Go to the Settings on your Wrizzit website, select Download My Data (in the Danger Zone area) to download it.



4. Copy your Wrizzit export file ( wrizzit-data.json ) directly into the /slimlines subfolder.
5. Run the application ( /slimlines/wrizzit.bat ).
6. View your Wrizzit archive in your default browser ( /slimlines/open.html ).

Online Hosting

If you want to host your newly created Wrizzit archive on the web (for free), checkout the following article for simple instructions on setting up a web server and building your database. You'll use the Wrizzit database build file ( /slimlines/wrizzit-db.bat ) instead of the one suggested in the article.

Blogging 101

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Wrizzit Issues

Not all Wrizzit features are supported. Social interactions, such as likes, reposts and comments are not directly supported. If you want to add some of these features, the Slimlines distribution includes additional plugins for simple text searching, page likes, visitor logs and support for Disqus comments. To add these and other useful online features to your Wrizzit blog, add the following to the top of the database configuration file ( /slimlines/db.xml ). Note: both the visitor log and disqus plugins require additional configuration changes. Consult the plugin files ( /slimlines/plugins/[plugin]/plugin.xml ) for instructions.

<Plugin> plugins\text.search </Plugin>
<Plugin> plugins\page.likes  </Plugin>
<Plugin> plugins\disqus      </Plugin>
<Plugin> plugins\visitor.log </Plugin>