Officially disguised as a Canadian
Recently, a friend (Janie Larson, A.K.A. the Red Queen Coder) asked me to take over hosting of her website. Unfortunately, because of boring technical reasons, she wasn’t able to back up the WordPress database, and so I used a tool called SiteSucker Pro to download it as-is as a static HTML entity. We would comeContinue reading Reverse engineering WordPress, kinda
I’ve gone for a clean slate on rabryst.ca, this site’s official new home, after having merged and migrated my ancient website and sister blog into xqrx.com/pop. Of course that /pop/ subdirectory was meant to be temporary, and now I have a redirect file that is longer than my arm. Nevertheless, I felt it was timeContinue reading Website moved again
There’s been a major attack on all WordPress (and Joomla) websites worldwide. When I last read about it, over 150 000 IP addresses were involved in the botnet. My (fantastic) service provider, Site5, with whom I host all of my customers’ sites as well as my own, mitigated the attack through the course of aContinue reading Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress
Some time ago, I converted my blog from simplephpblog to WordPress, leaving the rest of the site in flat HTML with some PHP headers (to maintain consistency and reduce duplicate code). I even wrote an open-source C# application to perform the blog migration (which had a couple of bugs but did much of the heavyContinue reading WordPress Migration
Tonight, I completed a second conversion of someone else’s Simple PHP Blog to WordPress. As regular readers know, I developed a C# Windows app to do this for myself, last year. However it is certainly not production-ready, so two separate websites had to be assisted manually with the conversion. Their common issue is that theyContinue reading Another Simple PHP Blog converted
I was asked by a new customer to move their WordPress blog to a hosted solution from WordPress.com. After exporting the blog to their XML format, I thought I would have to manually download all 499 images and link them. WordPress, fortunately, is a little cleverer than that. A simple “Would you like to importContinue reading Why WordPress rules more than you think it does
I have put this app into Google Code. You can get it directly from there. http://code.google.com/p/simplephpblogtowordpressconverter/
New features include: