I’ve had a lot of requests for a post on how I moved my ExpressionEngine blogs over to WordPress so here it, finally, is. And, no, it doesn’t really take 64 steps.
The guys at Hop Studios have just released version 1.0 of their Defensio Combo module for EE. We’ve been testing it for awhile here at SEB and I’m happy to say that I like it better than Akismet. It makes use of the Defensio Anti-Spam service which not only learns from spam and flags it . . . → Read More: Defensio Combo anti-spam module now available for ExpressionEngine.
Paul Burdick, super amazing programmer and CTO of pMachine makers of ExpressionEngine, has just released an extension for EE that allows us to make use of the much ballyhooed Bad Behavior 2 anti-comment/trackback spam system that was originally developed for WordPress. So, being the popular target of spammers that we tend to be I figured . . . → Read More: Testing out Bad Behavior 2 extension for EE.
Now this is pretty cool. The guys at pMachine who produce the script we use to run SEB and the other blogs I host are holding a contest to find out the cool ways people are using ExpressionEngine:
The folks at pMachine.com have just released the latest version of ExpressionEngine and announced that they are now providing a free version of EE called ExpressionEngine Core for folks that want to take advantage of EE as a platform for their personal sites, but don’t need the full power provided by the personal license:
This was an interesting idea. Paul Burdick, one of the folks who puts together ExpressionEngine, sat down and did up a small 3 minute video entry on his blog where he talks about what’s coming up in the development process. Among other things will be a new template for the forum module to show what’s . . . → Read More: Paul Burdick, CTO of ExpressionEngine, goes video.
I promised John Hoke that I would explain how I got w.bloggar working with ExpressionEngine so here’s that promised entry. The truth is that with the release of version 1.3 which includes the new Metaweblog API it’s a pretty easy thing to do.
This point release was set loose on 29th and I forgot to mention it then so I’m doing it now. Also released is version 1.1 of the forum module for those of you who picked that option up. This release is mainly a bug fix, but there are some cool new features as well such . . . → Read More: ExpressionEngine 1.3.1 is now available.
And it looks like it’s going to bring a lot of goodies with it. Rick and the crew just migrated the pMachine website over to ExpressionEngine 1.3 Beta in preparation. It was still running under their pMachine software previously because that had a forum functionality that EE didn’t… until now. The new forum module for . . . → Read More: ExpressionEngine 1.3 is about to enter beta.
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