Typo -> Mephisto -> WordPress

First I tried Typo, then Mephisto and now this blog is running WordPress. As a Ruby fan I really wanted to use Ruby everywhere, 2 years ago. I’m now at the point where I just want working stuff (kids will do that to you I guess). The migration from Mephisto to WordPress was very very smooth, thanks to this excellent article. The Mephisto version I was running was producing a Rails error based on some spam message which was posted. I really didn’t want to dig into the error and upgrading to the latest Mephisto was going to be quite a bit of work. All in all the switch to WordPress took about 2 hours in total, including customizing the theme a bit and making sure the old permalinks kept working. Cool!

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5 Responses to Typo -> Mephisto -> WordPress

  1. p3t0r says:

    Gehehe, always wondered where you found the time to manage a semi-custom blog. Did you also install Akismet to avoid spam in the future? works really well for me!

  2. andy says:

    Akismet is activated yeah. Actually, Mephisto was also akismet enabled, however it was still extremely annoying because there was no option of discarding spam messages outright. I would still have to click through each article which received spam and confirm the removal of the messages.

    BTW, you seem to have a fluid width layout with the K2 theme on your blog, did you customize that yourself or can I install an existing CSS hack for that? Thx!

  3. p3t0r says:

    Well… I actually can’t really recall what I did to K2 to make it fluid. I know I run a SVN version with a patch… but I’d have to dive back in to figure out how/why/what… maybe next year ;)

  4. Siem says:

    well congrats! Took you a long time to figure this one out ;-)

    have fun in Surinam.

  5. andy says:

    Thanks, Suriname is great and the kids are loving it! :-)

    BTW, going for Ruby when I did was probably the best career move I could wish for.. the $$$ is great and it’s oh soo much more fun than PHP/Java ;-)

    I am picking up some Java again though because of Android. I personally think it will be huge so I definitely want a piece of the action..

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