Site Upgrades
Due to some fairly serious problems with the “live antispam” functions on the b2evolution back-end and it’s associated website, I’m finally making the jump to wordpress.
I’ll try and keep the RSS feed addresses working, for those of you who use them, but I expect things to get a bit strange here from time to time over the next few days…
[Update] Well, I failed to keep the RSS feeds working, so my apologies for that - I did try! However you’ll find the new feed links at the bottom of the main page, where you can subscribe to both the main posts feed, and the comments feed.
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Congratulations, good luck and welcome to the dark side!
And maybe (just maybe, with WP’s anti-spam facilities) I won’t have to pad out comments like this in order to make it more than 18 words long…
Tell me about it… it’s a pain for me too… but it’s time to make the jump (eighteen nineteen)
Well, here it is, the blog on Wordpress - now there’s a fair bit still to do - including the site design, themes and relinking the photo gallery pages!
Plus, I’ve noticed that all the comment counters are zero until someone posts a new comment, then they seem to be correct.
Strange…
I’ve cleared the user table too - but hopefully there’s no need to login just to post comments anyway now.
Wooooo Hooooo! Looking sexy Tom! Kubrick, can’t beat it
And SK2! Hope it works you. I found it quite complicated at first (but I’m a little dumb on some things), but the author seems to be a really open and helpful chap.
And now I have someone who I can questions to each and every time I break my site. I am a happy camper!
All the best…
“And now I have someone I can ASK questions to” (obviously)!
Ollie, it may not be pretty, but it’s working - “design” stuff will come later!
As for you asking me, at the moment I’m more likely to be asking you!
You deserve to, after all the help you have given me! Drop me a line, and if I can help, I will. (I was joking about the Kubrick thing, by-the-way - I know what is like to finally see the blue header and think, “Thank f*** it works!”)
Things are slowly starting to come together - random images are back, last.fm is back - and for now I’m using the K2 theme - until I get round to sorting things out for myself!
I’ve just spent 10 minutes continually clicking the Change/Close button next to my name. I never knew of this K2 feature until now. I’m gonna play with it some more now.
I’m not quite sure what you’re referring too… I’m still learning a lot about this theme!
Where it says Leave a Reply, Welcome back Oliver White (or Tom Marshall or whoever), Change/Close. When you click Close/Change, there’s a little Javascript thing that animates the big text entry box up and down to hide/show the Name/Mail/Website boxes. I only noticed it yesterday and it’s quite nifty. But then, it’s always the simple things that attract me. Like shiny buttons and bottle tops…
I’ve not seen that yet - probably because I’m always logged on when I’m on the site!
Nice, there’s few touches like that (have you noticed that it doesn’t reload the page to display a comment you post either)
I think I’m gonna stick with k2, and do some customising to the design - as at the moment it’s still in it’s default state as I start pulling things together…
The more I look at K2, the more it looks to be quite good. At first, I was all like “It’s just going to be Kubrick all over again, and everyone will be using it” but because it has some really nice features, I think it will stand the test of time better.
And I think I am only just realising how serious your spam issue is/was. No wonder you were getting frustrated with it.
Spam - the numbers at the bottom of the page are just the ones that are getting through the first-line defences in my htaccess - which blogs a load of known referrers by name and or IP and browser identity strings!
K2 is going to get fairly heavily customised before I’ve finished with it - but as I always do, it seems a good foundation to build my customisations on - and there’s loads I think I can now do easily, which b2evo made very very hard!
I wish I’d made this change a long time ago…