Comments on: Migration from b2 to Wordpress 2.0.1-alpha

By: echeng

echeng — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:37:08 +0000

Marty – talk to the Wordpress folk. Those are the default fields! Microsoft must have pissed them off or something. ;)

By: martys

martys — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:55:31 +0000

So, the first time I log in with the new Wordpress authenticator I need to fill in all my profile info again. OK, not a problem – but why isn’t there a field to enter my MSN/WIndows Live Messenger IM name? There’s AIM (blech!), Yahoo (ok, they’re our new friends in the Messaging world) and gTalk?? Come on man, you’re killing me :-(

By: [ECHENG.COM] Eric Cheng - The Web Journal

[ECHENG.COM] Eric Cheng - The Web Journal — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:39:24 +0000

Wordverify plug-in for Wordpress...

When comment spam first started becoming an issue a couple of years ago, I hacked my b2 installation with a word-verification field that forced people to enter my last name whenever posting a comment. Since then, some of my friends have implemented th...

By: echeng

echeng — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:48:46 +0000

Thanks for the notes, Matt. Hopefully, old b2 users can use the SQL in this post to upgrade their custom fields.

As for the Wordpress archive — I believe that the link you supplied is a good example of why things are hard to find if you already don’t know where to look. I ran many google searches and never came across the static archive! Thank you for the link.

And a good point as well is that the nightly builds are available here: http://static.wordpress.org/builds/

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:05:31 +0000

Just two notes:

You can download every old release of WordPress here – http://static.wordpress.org/archive/ .

We don’t attempt to upgrade custom fields because they were never a part of b2, they were an extension or hack of some sort that were never core.

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By: echeng

echeng — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:29:17 +0000

Hey, Caroline! I got rid of them emoticons. ;)

By: Caroline :)

Caroline :) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:30:07 +0000

emoticons? where? :) :( :P :D

your little addendum at the bottom of your right-hand column cracked me up :)