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.
Most of the changes are to the back end of the sight, there’s a new built-in image editor and deleted posts and comments go into a trash bin before being deleted, so if you only ever see the front end you shouldn’t notice much difference.
Holy crap! I’ve been so busy with life that I totally forgot that I started this little experiment in egocentric rambling back on December 2nd, 2001. Not that I did a lot with it that month, but that’s when it officially started which means Stupid Evil Bastard is now, officially, 8 years old.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m currently using the Atahualpa theme for SEB because it’s the most configurable one I’ve found outside of Thesis. The latter of which costs money while the former does not, though they do accept donations. Athualpa has a few annoying quirks, but it is amazingly malleable so working with it is . . . → Read More: I’ll be messing around with SEB’s theme soon.
So we’ve been running WordPress for over a week now and I thought I’d take a moment to give my impressions. There is much to like about WordPress and much to dislike, but it’s certainly much better than it was the last time I checked it out over five years ago.
After many hours of work and some 22 export files with an average of 300 entries per file (highest was 500, lowest was 150), I have successfully migrated SEB from ExpressionEngine to WordPress. I will be writing a post about how I did this which will include the templates a I used and details on . . . → Read More: SEB makes the jump to WordPress.
I’ve mentioned previously that I was thinking of moving SEB off of ExpressionEngine and onto some other platform, likely WordPress, and now I’ve finally made the decision to do so. Not everyone cares, but for those who are curious as to why I thought I should take a moment and explain.
First registration on the test install of WordPressMU? A spammer going by the rather obvious name of “onlineinvestments.”
I put the friggin’ link to the test blog in a comment on a thread yesterday evening. Less than 24 hours later they’d found it and registered an account. No spam as near as I can . . . → Read More: Well that didn’t take long…
So I’m playing around with the multi-blog version of WordPress to see how it works out. I had installed just a single copy of the stand-alone WordPress first and that worked just fine, but I’m a little worried about WordPressMU. Not because it’s not working, but because I can’t find where it put the database . . . → Read More: Testing out WordPressMU.
I’ve long ago gotten used to the near-constant comment, trackback, and referrer spamming that comes with running a blog—trackbacks got so bad I turned them off rather than have to clean them up every day—but now there’s two new tactics spammers have been using that are annoying as hell. Or at least they’re new to . . . → Read More: Spammers are now targeting sites with Wikis.
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