Comments on: At one remove http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/06/at-one-remove/ Ideas linking Libraries, Computing, E-learning, and anything else that springs to mind. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alec http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/06/at-one-remove/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Alec Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:55:54 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=478#comment-234 Great that you were able to make the move. It's not easy and you do have to get the redirections right. Here's my <a href="http://foliovision.com/2008/11/17/typepad-to-wordpress/" rel="nofollow">Typepad to Wordpress story</a> - along with some tips on how to do the redirections. Good luck in your new home! PS. I know I could never have done <a href="http://uncoy.com/2009/05/choreolab-09.html" rel="nofollow">dance photo articles</a> like this within Typepad efficiently, so I'm so happy to be on Wordpress. Great that you were able to make the move.

It’s not easy and you do have to get the redirections right.

Here’s my Typepad to Wordpress story – along with some tips on how to do the redirections. Good luck in your new home!

PS. I know I could never have done dance photo articles like this within Typepad efficiently, so I’m so happy to be on Wordpress.

]]> By: Chris Keene http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/06/at-one-remove/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Chris Keene Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:43:20 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=478#comment-233 Comment spam seems to come and go like email spam, it goes bad for a while, then the spam filters catch up and it goes right down again. I get very few at the moment. For me WP isn't a blogging platform, it is a authentication, plugin, theme, content, publishing system (umm, which is probably what a blogging platform is but...) you can use it for so much more. I've seen it used as a support knowledge base, a faq system, photo viewer etc. I've used it for my non blog pages http://www.nostuff.org/go/ Plugins are what make it so powerful, as you note. I use the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriskeene/3592677149/ All apps should have a plugin architecture! Chris Comment spam seems to come and go like email spam, it goes bad for a while, then the spam filters catch up and it goes right down again. I get very few at the moment.

For me WP isn’t a blogging platform, it is a authentication, plugin, theme, content, publishing system (umm, which is probably what a blogging platform is but…) you can use it for so much more. I’ve seen it used as a support knowledge base, a faq system, photo viewer etc. I’ve used it for my non blog pages http://www.nostuff.org/go/

Plugins are what make it so powerful, as you note. I use the following:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriskeene/3592677149/

All apps should have a plugin architecture!

Chris

]]> By: ostephens http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/06/at-one-remove/comment-page-1/#comment-232 ostephens Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:49:05 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=478#comment-232 I have to admit spam wasn't a massive problem, just a minor irritant, and it is quite possible Wordpress will be no better. I think you use captchas on http://efoundations.typepad.com for comments? I stopped using this option after a reader complained about accessibility (Typepad doesn't currently offer an accessible alternative on its captchas) - and it was after this that I started to see regular spam getting through the filters. I did see some advice that suggests running multiple spam filters, and I could implement re-captcha (which does make some attempt to offer accessible alternatives) - I'll see how it goes. I have to admit spam wasn’t a massive problem, just a minor irritant, and it is quite possible Wordpress will be no better. I think you use captchas on http://efoundations.typepad.com for comments? I stopped using this option after a reader complained about accessibility (Typepad doesn’t currently offer an accessible alternative on its captchas) – and it was after this that I started to see regular spam getting through the filters.

I did see some advice that suggests running multiple spam filters, and I could implement re-captcha (which does make some attempt to offer accessible alternatives) – I’ll see how it goes.

]]> By: Andy Powell http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/06/at-one-remove/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Andy Powell Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:40:32 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=478#comment-231 I've probably got things set up wrong but I suffer from way more spam trouble on my dreamhost-hosted wordpress blog (even though I almost never write for it) than we do on our typepad hosted blog - perhaps it's the typepad-hosted thing that makes the difference in terms of how much spam typepad catches? We made a massive error with eFoundations - not with the choice of Typepad (which was an error but not a massive one) but with the decision to host it at a typepad.com domain name. Makes moving it pretty much an impossibility unfortunately... I’ve probably got things set up wrong but I suffer from way more spam trouble on my dreamhost-hosted wordpress blog (even though I almost never write for it) than we do on our typepad hosted blog – perhaps it’s the typepad-hosted thing that makes the difference in terms of how much spam typepad catches?

We made a massive error with eFoundations – not with the choice of Typepad (which was an error but not a massive one) but with the decision to host it at a typepad.com domain name. Makes moving it pretty much an impossibility unfortunately…

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