Repair what the WordPress database dump found, and retire three cutover deadlines

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Validating the WordPress SQL dump (Foojay/WordPress backup/sftp96438_wpengine_com.sql, taken 2026-09-21 08:34 UTC) against content/ turned up a short list of real gaps. This is that list, fixed.

The migration itself came out clean. All 2,255 published posts are here, all 326 post authors have a profile, post dates match the URL paths exactly, no post is missing a description, and every approved comment is archived. What follows is the remainder.

What changed

Eight posts were edited on WordPress after this repo took its copy. Seven re-fetched with transfer/Posts.java --url; boxlang-1-16-0-released is frozen so its four added categories went in by hand. Mostly categories, plus a moved sample repo in the two Hibernate/MongoDB posts and a section reorder in the Payara release post.

Four things only the database has, because in each case the live HTML is not where the fact lives:

keeping-your-fonts-in-embedded-svg	had no body at all — live on the site as a title and nothing else. WordPress serves an empty .article__main-content, so every scrape rewrites it empty and says so. Rebuilt from post_content (90 KB) through the repo's own HtmlToMarkdown, images pulled into the bundle, now frozen.
calling-microservices-in-java	the only post with a featured image in WordPress and none here. Its og:image URL contains a narrow no-break space (U+202F) that WordPress emits unencoded and the scraper cannot fetch.
11 redirects	nine from _wp_old_slug — the postmeta WordPress writes on a rename and redirects from for ever, invisible to the plugin export the aliases were built from — plus plugin rules 106/107, added after that export.
5 author social links	Maximillian Arruda routes his through link.maxdearruda.com, and the scraper classifies a social link by host, so it writes "" over both on every run. His profile is frozen; the usermeta keys name the network outright.

One post is frozen against its own source. The WordPress edit that gave did-your-ai-agent-run-the-debugger a better title also mangled six links in the body — schemes stripped, doubled (http:https://...///), one anchor text spliced into another. The dump confirms the damage is in post_content, so the live copy is the broken one and a re-scrape reproduces it faithfully. This keeps the new title and the old body. Worth fixing on WordPress too if the post is going to be edited there again.

Also: three converter regressions the re-scrape introduced (two eaten spaces, three & → \&), and alt text for the five images in the restored post, where WordPress had none and the images are the argument.

What this changes about cutover day

CUTOVER.md Phase 1 is built around scraping a site that is about to be switched off, and three of its items say some version of this cannot be re-run after cutover. A database dump makes all three false, so the phase now opens by saying to take the dump first.

The view counts are the one to read closely. wp_post_views WHERE type='4' is the per-post total, exactly, in one query — and on 2026-09-21 the crawl-built data/legacy-views.json was 87,617 views light across 2,169 posts, and missing 91 posts outright. Nothing was over-counted, so every difference is something the crawl did not see. Rebuild that file from the final dump rather than crawling for it.

The comment archive and CloudflareEmails similarly stop being deadlines (wp_comments is complete; obfuscation happens at Cloudflare's edge, so post_content is clean — 233 posts carry a raw address there). The hero-image and canonical audits are untouched: those probe third-party URLs and still need the network.

Not in this PR

• ~71,000 indexed URLs under /today/<type>/… with no Hugo equivalent and no redirect family: /today/options/ (41,672 — the JVM options explorer, now /jvm-options/), /today/fixes/ (23,813), /today/event/ (5,430), and smaller sets. All index in wpseo_titles, none carrying a recorded page view. Wants a decision — a rule, or a bulk 410 — before cutover; the full URL list is in the dump.
• Three WordPress category descriptions (Podcast, CRaC, JBang). _default/term.html renders only {{ .Title }}, so carrying them needs a layout change, not just content.
• Two author website: fields the diff flagged: for iryna-dohndorf and micksembwever the WordPress user_url is the same LinkedIn URL their profile already shows, so adding it would print one link twice.
• stefan-richthofer's website: is apidia.net here and x.com/stewori on the live page, so the next full Authors.java run will flip it. Pre-existing, left alone.

A README.md now sits next to the dump on local disk with provenance, the table inventory, a loader script (no MySQL needed) and the queries behind every number above.

Verification

hugo builds clean, validate/Frontmatter.java --changed-since main passes, validate/BuiltSite.java reports only pre-existing dead links in untouched posts, and all eleven new aliases plus both repaired posts were checked in public/.

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