You must have thought that I have successfully imported my b2 to WordPress, right? Wrong! The import failed and I am still in the process of fixing it. Anyway, this current one is a fresh start from a new database with no past entries. I am still thinking. It took me some time to fix up the comments page but it’s done now. The smilies have still not been added but I’ve used a few simple plugins like Spam Karma to get rid of those annoying comments, known as spam, from flooding my comments page, hope it works. And also an auto commenter plug, gravatar and a spell checker that works really well. So, any good plugins to suggest? I was thinking of the WP Grins for clickable smilies. I miss my smilies. I’m still in the process of linking my static (non WP pages) to the header, footer and style sheet in my WordPress folder. I hope that one would be a breeze.
Upgrading to WordPress was indeed not as simple as it looks. I have tried ways and means from various tutorial. By right, it should work. But I don’t know what went wrong. Lastly, many thanks to Jen for clearing my doubts about WordPress. Please inform me if there are any errors, hope not. Cross my fingers. After messing around with WordPress for the past few hours, I still didn’t get the hang of it but the content management system is great. I can’t get the archive and statistic to show up like my b2 ones. The system used on this one is so different.
Edit: Implemented clickable smilies in both my wordpress admin panel and the comments. Finally got both the statistics and the archive running. The links manager of wordpress is great. It makes managing links so much easier, now all the links are powered by wordpress and sorted neatly, even the joined fanlistings.







11 May, 2005 at 2:32 am
Thanks Tracy. I use a code snippets for the auto commenters plug. You can find this plugin here and the statistic script was found from the Codex. Hope this helps you.
11 May, 2005 at 2:31 am
Thanks for offering your help Elea.
11 May, 2005 at 2:31 am
Yea, I’m started to like wordpress already. It’s functions are great. Anyway, don’t need to miss those smilies now. They’re back!
10 May, 2005 at 3:06 am
Heya Dayna! I’m back ^-^ I love wordpress, although I disliked it at first. LoL. I got most of my plugins here- http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/
Like the smilies a lot
and the layout is so pretty!
10 May, 2005 at 12:42 am
aww good luck! you will make it!
9 May, 2005 at 11:34 pm
Congrats on WordPress! And on another beautiful layout!! Dayna!!! Do you have a commenters plug script??? Can you send it to me?? Please!? I’ve been searching so long but it somehow doesn’t function corretcly by me. Also where did you get the WP statistic scripts? Can you help?!
XoX, Tracy
9 May, 2005 at 11:24 pm
Yay for WordPress!
I haven’t even tried the link manager even though I’ve used wordpress for so long. ^^;
9 May, 2005 at 9:59 pm
Hah, I also just converted to WordPress and man, I am glad that my friend installed it for me ^^ Still, I did the whole configurating thing and I must agree, it’s not easy… but it’s worth the workm WP is cool ^^
However, it all looks great Dayna! Great work, great new layout :flip:
9 May, 2005 at 8:32 pm
Oh wow! The new layout you have here is really amazing! *grumbles* Why?! That’s so unfair.
Meh. Yeah, I love the colors that all run into eachother within the butterfly. It’s like a mixture of fireworks, northern lights, an oil spill and fire.
Mrrrm. Good job!
9 May, 2005 at 4:46 pm
yay. finally can view yoru blog. so pro! i’m stuck onto the good ol’ diaryland and greymatter. lol! i dont see any erros though. u rock!
9 May, 2005 at 4:01 pm
Wordpress can be really confusing at first, especially if you’re using version 1.5 to start with. I’d recommend trying out version 1.2 and then upgrading to 1.5 after you get used to it, but oh well, you’ve already installed WordPress and I’m sure you’ll get it soon enough.
If you need help with some plugins or with the smilies though, just let me know!
9 May, 2005 at 3:45 pm
Aw. Sorry to hear you’re having problems with WordPress. But I’m sure that once you get everything fixed you’ll see how great WP is! ^^
Haven’t found any errors yet. It’s looking good so far!
And I’m kinda missing the smilies too. They were so cute!