Archive For November, 2008

For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work.

Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.

Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto Wordpress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in any case the hard part of the move was getting the posts and comments over.

DovDox takes the script and makes it so that the content and comments are transfered between a Drupal 5.9 installation into a WordPress 2.6 install but due to the taxonomy system, categories are not migrated. If you choose to use the script provided by DovDox, be aware that it may cause a loss of data so be sure to back up everything before you do anything.

I wanted to put the call out to the community to see if anyone knew of a script or an individual that is consitently producing a migration script to move from Drupal to WordPress. If so, I’ll edit this post and add those resources to the bottom. I’ll also try to place those resources in the WordPress Codex.

In this episode:

We’re joined by Mark Jaquith, WordPress Ninja at b5media and core developer.
We discuss the release of WordPress 2.6.5, which fixes for a very obscure security bug and three more bugs.
We warn of a bogus WordPress 2.6.4 version out there.
We congratulate Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert, winners of the Project Icon contest.
We weigh in [...]

New Plugins

Add to Feed

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Amazon Plugin

Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.

Related Blog Links

This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.

Techytube XHTML

This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.

ZD YouTube FLV Player

Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player.

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media.

Easy AdSenser

Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts.

Feed Comments Number

Add an image that displays the number of comments to your feed items.

Updated Plugins

Formbuilder

The FormBuilder plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows the blog or website owner to easily and quickly create forms for display on their sites.

SendFeed

The SendFeed Plugin for WordPress allows you to send your latest post from your RSS feed to an external Mailing List Manager in both text and HTML formats.

AmazonFeed

This plugin will allow you to turn your WordPress website or blog into a money making machine while at the same time offering valuable additional related materials to your visitors. It will automatically search for and display products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topics you write about.

Quiz

Authors can write a new Quiz question and answer for each post, fall back on a default question, or have no question at all. Commenters must correctly answer the question before their comment is submitted.

CaPa Protect

Protects Categories, Pages and Posts for specific users & anonymous visitor.

Side Content

Side Content enables you to create widgets which have different content on different pages.

Easy LaTeX

Easy LaTeX provides a very easy way to display math and equations in your posts.

WP-DONATORS

Wp-Donators offer a smart donation function to auto-leave the sponsor information in a container after payment. Sponsor can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad, the information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. The more a person donations, the bigger their link will be.

Useful 404’s

Create more useful 404 error pages, including email notifications for bad links.

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You can reply to your visitor messages from your own profile.

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This release fixes a couple of issues and adds a temporary fix for the problem reported by Julian A. Rodriguez ( [nulledcore.com] ) which got confirmed now.

Therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.

You can download it from our downloads page.

This is the excerpt from the changelog:

   2008-10-06 10:13  ts77
	* removed "SET CHARACTER SET" query to solve some mysteries in
	  charset support (thanks to Chris who brought this up
	  [www.phorum.org] )

   2008-10-06 10:03  mmakaay
	* Fixed #806: possible XSS leak plugged. This was reported as a
	  security vulnerability, however we were never able to produce
	  anything more than broken HTML code. Since broken HTML code is not
	  good and because we are rather safe than sorry, this fix was
	  implemented.

   2008-10-04 08:55  mmakaay
	* Fixed "AND" based queries for
	  phorum_api_user_search_custom_profile_field(). Thanks to Phorum
	  user jjarvis98 for noticing the bug and to Azumandias for
	  providing the fix.

   2008-09-21 10:10  ts77
	* transferring template-arg through the urls (fixing #792), doesn’t
	  work with search - essentially breaks search and needs checking
	  therefore

   2008-09-21 09:56  ts77
	* give a message about this being a moderated forum before
	  redirecting after posting (fixing #775)

   2008-09-02 12:13  mmakaay
	* Fixed the new release detection code. In the admin interface, new
	  releases were not detected by the "Check For New Version"
	  function.

   2008-09-01 09:55  mmakaay
	* Fixed #797: Undefined offset: 0 in api.php in case the message
	  started with a stale BBcode close tag. Thanks to Alexey Torkhov
	  for the problem report.

   2008-09-01 09:37  mmakaay
	* Fixed #796: Undefined index "mod_bbcode_tags" in BBcode module.
	  Thanks to Alexey Torkhov for the heads up.

   2008-09-01 07:41  mmakaay
	* Fixed the classic index style (directory browsing mode) for the
	  classic 0.4 template. It did not yet reflect a change in the
	  datastructures that we use for the index page in Phorum 5.2,
	  causing folders to not show up in that view.

   2008-09-01 06:33  mmakaay
	* Fix for #795: BBcode module needs to explicitly include api.php to
	  define the constants that are used in the settings page. Thanks to
	  Alexey Torkhov for the heads up.

   2008-08-27 12:57  ts77
	* building the list of forums to move a thread to in the same way as
	  the list of forums in the search form (fixing #729, thx to Oliver
	  Riesen)

   2008-08-27 10:09  mmakaay
	* Fixed #784: missing terminating ] for character class in
	  http_get.php.

   2008-08-23 18:31  mmakaay
	* Fixed #776: phorum_api_user_save() sets the password to "*NO
	  PASSWORD SET*" when calling the function twice (first time to
	  create a user, second time to update, both calls without using a
	  password in the user data). Thanks to Alexey Torkhov for finding
	  and reporting the issue.

   2008-08-22 22:55  mmakaay
	* Fixed #787: BBcode module: end of message end tags for some bbcode
	  tags were not processed correctly. The tag and the text that came
	  before the tag were duplicated at the end of the rendered message.

   2008-08-22 21:21  mmakaay
	* Added "@" as a safe character for the quoted printable encoding
	  requirement check. Otherwise, every mail address will be quoted
	  printable encoded, even if there are no special characters in it.

   2008-08-04 17:57  mmakaay
	* Phorum3 script updated for the new phorum_db_file_save() call in
	  Phorum 5.2. Thanks to Simon King who posted the patch in our
	  support forums.

This mod will add the top server load statistics in your vBulletin admincp (if your server installation allows execution of programs via PHP)

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Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of:

• Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle
• How different versions affect the publishing of the book
• WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition
• Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7
• Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs
• Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes
• much, much, more.

Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies.

Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire.

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