success installing WordPress
I’ve finally moved my blog onto a current blogging platform. While there are some detractors, wordpress is a current and active project, with lots of options for hacking the code about to customise it a lot. I’m excited about the options for widgets and other fun things, as all the tutorials you tend to run into online are all about wordpress. If you can’t beat them join them I guess.
Thank you for your patience as I fix up broken links and add features. If you see anything missing, have any ideas or any comments, as always, leave a comment in the box below. 
January 13, 2009 | |
Congrats!! If you need ideas for plugins to add enhancements, let me know.
Good to see that you migrated successfully. Like always, if you need any help on the backend with the database, etc, just give me a shout.
Oh, well. I was hoping that you would move to b2evolution.
I can understand your reasoning though, but personally my opinion of WordPress is that it’s very bloated and not proportionately feature rich in respect of its bloat.
I actually installed the latest WordPress release for my wife to use and there seems to actually be an improvement from my last encounter with it. I let my wife decide but didn’t object to WordPress as it’s admin interface is very easy to use, not like some other blogware’s out there. B2evolution is good but can be a little confusing I think for users that just want it with the “simple stupid” approach. I’m not calling WordPress users stupid though.. I might have to bribe Ray to upgrade it since I can’t be bothered with the amount of updates it has all the time..
Hey Hari, when you said about b2evolution, I had already been messing with the WP theme, and it was too much work invested to go to waste.
Thanks for the well wishing Ray.
The upgrades are pretty easy to do – I do mine manually because I’m paranoid about auto installs on the server. There is a section in the admin panel for automated plugin and WP upgrades – but doing it manually is so easy that I don’t bother with it.
Can you elaborate on what updating entails, Ray? Perhaps in a blog post.
Thanks!
Well, in any case, I think you’ve done a great job converting the website to WP and making it look just the same.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress is all you need to know about upgrading the blog. It really is very easy – just remember that you have to be careful with /wp-content/ as your themes and plugins are in there. Usually I either just upgrade the akismet plugin and the default them or ignore it all together.
Basically, if you upgrade that folder and make a mistake you will wipe out your theme – not a problem if you are staying with the default and not tweaking, but for the majority of the themes it can be pretty painful!
Are you hand moderating every comment or just ones with links? If you want a little peace of mind, get Spam Karma 2 (I prefer it to Akismet as Akismet can be very unforgiving occasionally and treats lots of sane comments as spam) and Bad Behaviour. I have many plugins and apart from the odd one or two they automatically catch the idiots.
Cheers Drew.
Yeah Ray, I have it on the defaults so far, it’s asking me to moderate stuff with links. I’ve downloaded Sk2 and Bad Behaviour, but since we’re all getting ready for a wedding (first of two) I don’t have time to upload them to the server yet.
Upload to the server?? Go to the plugin folder and run the following:
wget -address to plugin- && unzip -pluginfile- && rm -pluginfile-and then activate them in the admin options. To upgrade a plugin, deactivate it and then dorm -rf -pluginfolder- && wget -address to plugin- && unzip -pluginfile- && rm -pluginfile-It’s that easy!
And here I was wondering why my RSS feed hadn’t updated for a while. Because you migrated platforms, that’ll do it!
Congratulations on making the move, you’ve done very well with the theme! And I know from redoing mine several times from scratch with b2evolution that than can be hard..
P.S. The RSS feeds don’t seem to be working on the new version..