Comments on: switched from movable type to wordpress

By: dan

dan — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:26:28 +0000

I just found a category on DMOZ about how to avoid comment spam and referrer spam.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:29:53 +0000

Renee: Their solution was to release 3.x but I don’t know if that has solved the slowness or not.

I wasn’t willing to upgrade because I didn’t want to pay the amount they were asking. It’s not because I’m not willing to pay; I contributed $50 voluntarily when I began using it, but 3.0 wasn’t worth what they were asking, especially when WordPress is better in certain respects and is open source.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:09:00 +0000

Do you think MT’s going to do anything about the comment issue? It’s prevalent on a lot of blogs I got to, even ones w/o many comments.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:24:58 +0000

Kaimi: That would have been helpful but I just posted about how I did link conversions and from what I can tell they seem to be working.

I was planning to switch to the new link format anyway though, so I’ll use that going forward and leave the forwarding in place.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:48:38 +0000

It may be too late if you’ve already done your import/export, but there’s a hack that we used, which keeps the post ID intact.

If the post ID is the same, then through .htaccess you can redirect archives to the correct post using the p= query on wordpress.

E.g., if it was archives/0001.html, set the htaccess to redirect to index.php?p=1 .

The key to making that work is preserving the ID, which does _not_ happen in normal WP import, but there’s a hack we used to do this. As a result, all of our old archive links are still functional.

You can also set up your WP permalinks to configure just like the MT permalinks, but I haven’t quite gotten that to work on my site. (And haven’t needed to, really — once I did the htaccess, I stopped worrying about it). Again, the key will be preserving the same post ID.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:13:59 +0000

Congrats … I’ve been happy with WordPress ever since I started using it. Hope you like it to. Pretty quickly I’m sure I’ll be having to ask you questions about Worpdress if I can’t figure something out.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:14:49 +0000

I made extensive modifications to index.php and I use my own stylesheet instead of wp-layout.css, but I only have 5-10 calls to the WP framework, so I’m hoping it won’t be too bad. I’d prefer to go with a beta instead of the alpha, but maybe I’ll switch anyway.

By: David

David — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:42:19 +0000

I think we would be lucky to see it for Christmas. I have been using 1.3 alpha on my site for a bit and I really can’t complain at all, everything seems to work. The bulk comment moderation is nice. Depending on how much you changed the default index.php and wp-layout.css expect quite a bit of time to upgrade to 1.3.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:45:46 +0000

Cool. That’s going to come in 1.3 by default too. I wonder how much longer 1.3 will be.

By: Indranil

Indranil — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:39:14 +0000

And the moderation after a few days can be found here.