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[telophase]

Just spent three hours wrestling with a problem in Wordpress that had stymied me for weeks* to discover through a fortuitous combination of Google search terms that the real problem was not Wordpress or, as I thought, Dreamhost disabling a particular command for security reasons, but an over-vigilant Apache security module dedicated to rooting out spammers.** Which is all fine and dandy for comment spam, but not really necessary when I'm posting a page. But I managed to figure out how to disable it for the specific page-posting file and not for any other files in the whole Wordpress install. I feel much relief at this.


* Technically. This was the second time I'd messed with it, after giving up a few weeks back on my first try.

** Which gave an interesting 503 error, which says that the server's too busy, rather than any sort of error that told me what the hell was going on.

Comments

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

If I wanted to set up a Wordpress blog on your space and I had a sort of vague idea of which modules I wanted to include, would you help me with any problems that might hypothetically come up? I've been thinking about this for a while (since before Strikethrough) but Wordpress kind of scares me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sure!

WP is pretty easy to mess with once you get the hang of it. (Not that I've tried doing my own theme yet or anything; I'm mostly messing with the functionality.) The only thing I can think of at first is that if you want to do a DH one-click install, you'll need to put it into a directory by itself with nothing else in it. If you're willing to install and upgrade it yourself, then you'll have to manually install. Which isn't very hard: I've done both. I had to do a manual install on the main magatsu.net directory, since that's already got a bunch of stuff in it that I didn't want to move. :)

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

A directory like sd.magatsu.net/blog? Automatic installations are good ^^. I've been waiting for my laptop to come back from the shop before I try anything, since there's a limit to what I can do on the library's computers. (And I've been trying to figure out what to put on the blog -- reposts of my better livejournal posts, I guess, but a surprising number of them aren't portable.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup, a dir like that would work. And the one-click installs/upgrades work wonderfully.

Can't help you with going from LJ to the blog, but I just found a plugin that copies everything you put on WP to your LJ or LJ_code-derived (like GreatestJournal or Journalfen) blog. Check my LJ for an example.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I had a wild hair at one point to make a manga review site, which got put aside once I came to terms with the fact that I hate writing reviews and I couldn't count on making my LJ friends supply me with content. :) But there's a few book review plugins out there which look nifty.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

You can also port the entire contents of your livejournal over to Wordpress. I might do that, and then edit out all the posts or posts or posts where I natter on about fanfiction, post memes, or shoutout to livejournal users. ^^; Or maybe I'll just copy-paste manually. One thing I noticed, not that I didn't know this before, is that I often cram a lot of different topics into a single post. On LJ this makes sense (don't spam the friendslist!) but for WP I'll probably want to split these posts up.

Charmian has a list of the LJ-to-WP plugins she's found useful here (http://yuzutea.net/log/?cat=3).

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

then edit out all the posts or posts or posts

"and then edit out all the posts or parts of posts", I mean.