Chaotek Thoughts

This site is now live on WordPress, having converted from b2evolution.  While there wasn’t anything specifically wrong with b2evolution, my recent experiences with a few sites using WordPress has shown me how much easier WordPress is to use.  I have my old theme back, since the b2evo version of the theme was broken by an application update awhile back.

I used a conversion script to convert.  It was half successful.  While it did import users and posts, it did not import any category or tags, requiring a lot of rework.  The real problem with the script is that roughly 1/3 of the posts got truncated.  This required a manual check of every post, which took far longer than I would have liked.

Overall, I’m not sure how much time the conversion script really saved me, because copying all of the posts manually might have been easier becaus e it would not have required all of the rework and double-checking.

I helped setup a website this week, check it out: http://www.desertwheel.com/

The site uses WordPress, which I am strongly debating moving this site to. While I don’t have any significant issues with b2evolution, I really like the ease of use that WordPress offers.

I just wanted to give a shout out to Josh Clayton at Spiffy Life for an easy to use utility which saved me time and effort. I needed to look inside some “encrypted” content in a theme for a friend’s site because the theme was behaving poorly and this page made it very easy. Thanks a lot!

By the way, sure it was mildly difficult to get the data decrypted, but what was the point. You want to protect a couple spam links on the bottom of the theme to “pay for the theme.” For one, it wasn’t really tough to break, and two its part of the license of using the free theme. If you really wanted cash, you’d spend more effort on finding people who broke your license than trying to maintain some spam links.