Well, today I’ve finally had enough and had to switch my blog to WordPress abruptly. In the two weeks of this month so far I have already received two and a half times the amount of traffic that I got last month, but from one third the number of visitors. It’s all going to my b2evolution blog and is clearly from spammers. Hell, 2gb of it was from only two IP addresses, both tracing back to Mexican providers. I’ve firewalled some of them out, but I still got another gigabyte of traffic yesterday, in just one day. This is ridiculous and has to stop, so today I installed WordPress, loaded it up with antispam plugins, and I’m hoping for the best.
I have to say, the switch to WordPress was nice and smooth, thanks to the b2evo importer script that I updated a bunch and which Isaac Schlueter has worked on further. There’s also a terrific number of WP plugins available to use, and I’ve already installed quite a few. I love the Events Calendar (look to the top of the sidebar on the right) and I’m hoping that Spam Karma 2, Referrer Karma, and Bad Behavior will all help to filter out spambots. As soon as I get around to it, I’ll update my Gallery to Gallery 2 and start using the WP-Gallery2 plugin to post images here. After I finish my Google Summer of Code project I’ll be working on it a little to add some functionality and make it easier to insert Gallery items into posts.
Anyway, for now WordPress is terrif and I hope it works out…
Tags: development, geekiness
I have heard a lot of good things about WordPress. I moved my stuff into my dorm Tuesday. Check in went a lot smoother. Everything was taken care of in Wells Fargo Arena. Oh, I was the first one moved in, next was Barry, then Dan, then Chris (who is now in Ricky’s room with a roomate and his old room is a single female room, hah). I left, went home, and then headed out to the American Idol concert, which was a lot of fun. I’m going back Sunday with my fridge and whatnot (the big stuff). I hope to talk to you next week via IM or your chatroom. Good luck on your Google Grant. Oh, and for what part did you audition for “Sky High?” I remember you telling me about that but it totally didn’t connect until now!!!
Hmm…I keep getting INSANE TRACKBACK SHIT from spammers on b2evo. WordPress, hm?
Yeah man, it’s totally saving my life right now. Oh and nice of you to say hi, douchebag. Seriously, though, check out the pictures from Jackie’s last party, you’re a total crazy goon. Also I gave you props, like a page back, check it out.
Hey Joey, I can’t believe you guys are starting on Monday already and I’m not back to school for another month. Actually I didn’t even realize you guys were starting on Monday until I talked to Xchel this afternoon. You remember him, right? Crazy hair guy? Yeah, anyway, so that’s when I found out. Oh, and way cool: he might be getting a house and offered me a room; that would be sweet. Hope the new RA doesn’t crack down on your mega fridge, it was the shit this last year. I’ve got to give Dan a call, I haven’t talked to him all summer.. Funny about the female single… Is it Brandy? Heh. As for Sky High, em, it was just sort of a general call, but I seem to recall there was some kid with fire powers that seemed about right for me, lol. I’m kind of curious to see the movie – even though it looks like ass – just because I auditioned for it.
Hey, if you haven’t already, check out my review of it. Sky High is actually pretty decent. Also, for some reason I am getting spammed under my Skeleton Key entry. Rather odd.
Could you fix a small issue at your http://themikecam.com/downloads/import-b2evolution.php.txt, since that’s where people end up from http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content. Comments from b2evo do not make it because of a missing comma between comment_date_gmt and comment_content:
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query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_author_IP, comment_date, comment_date_gmt, comment_content, comment_karma) VALUES (‘$id’, ‘$author’, ‘$email’, ‘$url’, ‘$user_ip’, ‘$result->comment_date’, ‘$result->comment_date’, ‘$comment’, ‘$result->comment_karma’)”);
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> $wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb->comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_author_IP, comment_date, comment_date_gmt comment_content, comment_karma) VALUES (‘$id’, ‘$author’, ‘$email’, ‘$url’, ‘$user_ip’, ‘$result->comment_date’, ‘$result->comment_date’, ‘$comment’, ‘$result->comment_karma’)”);
Woops, sorry about that, I don’t know how it slipped in; should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out, Andrei!
Hi Michael,
maybe you might be able to help me with a problem with your b2evolution update script when converting b2evolution entries which contain German special characters? I have opened a thread in the wordpress support section (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/103183) but it seems there is nobody out there who can help…
Thanks a lot,
Michael
Used the script. Great help.
2 notes:
1. you must import the b2evo db inside the WP db (it would be cool to modify the script to allow for a separate db).
2. I got an error because the table “items__item” couldn’t be found. I replaced it with “posts” since it seems to be the table in question.