Comments on: Switching to WordPress

By: Lucien

Lucien — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:15:50 +0000

How’s the spam issue been? My MT install has been getting more and more spam comments, enough that I’m considering switching, hopefully to something that really handles spam well.

By: Douglas Nerad

Douglas Nerad — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:45:12 +0000

Bye! We’ll miss you! (That’s *not* sarcasm; that’s sincere). I’ve played around with Wordpress, too, and I can see the allure. I don’t know if you’d be interested in writing up how you migrated everything from Blosxom over to the new system? Even though I advocate Blosxom I know there are others who would benefit from your experience. PS: More restaurant reviews!

By: Jonas Rabbe

Jonas Rabbe — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:17:32 +0000

Seems you are already a long way towards switching completely. I guess I’ll have to pull myself into gear and get my own blog ported too instead of being stuck on MT 2.66. Also, thank you for going to a layout with the comments on the same page as the entries, the comment popup from the old version was one of my pet peeves.

By: Daniel J. Wilson

Daniel J. Wilson — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 03:18:04 +0000

For spam fighting, I recommend WordPress Hashcash, which has been remarkably effective for me. I’ve had only a handful of junk comments get through, but even then, their content was just the MD5 hash (I think).

By: Buzz Andersen

Buzz Andersen — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:46:06 +0000

That was probably the wrong thing to say there. To be honest I never tried BXR, but I’m sure if I had it would not have been too difficult to use. The reasons I switched had more to do with the comment situation and the fact that I just have decided I wanted weblog software with a nicer admin interface. The fact that it also allowed me to get MarsEdit working without any additional setup was just a nice bonus. I should probably edit the post to clarify that.

By: Allen Hutchison

Allen Hutchison — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:30:29 +0000

“want weblog software that allows me to use it with a minimum of fuss”, did you think that BXR was too hard to use? If you have any suggestions I would love to hear them for the next version.