Unless I’m mistaken and you, my readers, are extremely interested in selling me viagra and car insurance, I’ve been suffering from an increasingly bad blog comment spam problem, and it’s been getting a lot worse lately. Most of this is due to being stuck on an old version of Movable Type, which has very poor spam prevention. I’d been planning for a while to move over to WordPress, which I like a lot more and have set up many times before (including on elephantsdream.org) but had been procrastinating for a while, worried about the changeover process.
Today, I finally cracked and exported this blog over to the new system, which went surprisingly smoothly. Most of the work took very little time at all, while tweaking the template to get it working just right took a little bit longer. Luckily WordPress isn’t written in Perl, like Movable Type is, so when I ran into a limitation in the templating system, I could actually understand it enough to hack together a simple plugin to do the job. Hopefully everything should be working smoothly and you won’t even notice a difference, though I’m still working on a solution to keep old links pointing to the right pages. If you notice something that’s obviously messed up, please let me know! cheers.
Seems good to me.
Perhaps faster, not sure though.
– Rui –
Sure you don’t want any Valium? Viagra?
Hey thanks jakub, that provided a good first test of the spam filtering system
Thank You
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