As I’m sure most of you will have noticed we have been experiencing a few difficulties with TypePad and our hosts to try and get IP’s/DNS’s/whatever else to link to the right places. Anyway after being down for long enough we decided to move from TypePad to WordPress. We still need to import all our posts from TypePad, but hopefully all should be back to normal in a few days.
Thanks for sticking around.
UPDATE : Please could you change your RSS feeds for Jo’blog to point to :
http://feeds.feedburner.com/joblog for the feeds
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForJoblog for comments
ANOTHER UPDATE : Finally got all our old posts imported (Thanks QuickSilver!)
February 14th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Good decision ! Die evil Typepad Die !
February 14th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Nice one ../Ant, thanks loads bro.
Now post some more coast boy…!
February 15th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Missed you guys – the blogosphere just wasn’t the same.
February 15th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Yeah, looking forward to it…
Also, Peas, don’t you want to look into enabling non-Blogger commenting on your site? I mean, yes, you’d probably be overwhelemed with lewd requests, but our favourite daily soap-opera-thingy would be so much better if it were interactive!
February 15th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Martin I would love to. Just how do I do this? Any ideas? I’m crap at stuff like this generally. A step by step how to do?
February 15th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Martin I think I figured it out, just played with my settings. Now you can comment all you like.
February 15th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Thanks Peas, welcome to the world of interactivity!
February 15th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Ah, a whole new world opens upon me…
February 15th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Hehe, you guys enjoying yourselves?
February 15th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Sorry ../Ant, we’ll take it outside
February 15th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
No please continue, things were just getting interesting
February 16th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Oooh Martin you make me so hot.
All this interactive talk is getting me all shvitzy.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Interactivity, virtuality, collaboration, seamless synergy, hyper-integration, Service Oriented Architecture, High Bandwidth pipes…
How’s that?
February 16th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Wow.
I think I need to go take a cold shower.
I’m blushing.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
hi
i am french, my name is Philippe, and i am new here
I just discover your blog, by luck ! ! !
i really like this space (blog) !
i do digital art design and i want to promote my own web !
(but less than yours, whish is really good !
its an EXITING one
i will come back there ofently
and please …
…. come to visit me as fast as possible !
http://bellxone.skynetblogs.be
http://bellxone.skynetblogs.be
February 16th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
the hawk on my web (http://bellxone.skynetblogs.be) is just a logo whish represent me
bellxone is this logo’s name !
i put this logo on each artwork i made
i hope you can understand me !
sorry for my english which is really discusting !
i am french !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
anyway
thanks for your visit and message !
Bellxone
Philippe, Bordeaux, FRANCE
February 17th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Philippe, bonjour.
Comment va Bordeaux aujourd’hui?
Votre blog, c’est en le francais ou l’Anglais?
February 17th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
You rock ../Ant, thank you thank you thank you…
February 17th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Good grief, first post on the new engine and we’ve been spammed already…!
February 17th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
i am south african, my name is Mark, and i am new here.
I just discover your blog, but not by luck ! And I am not a spammer.
Good work on joining WordPress guys. Look forward to some good posts
February 17th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
I lied, I’m not new here either. I’m a joblog addict.
February 20th, 2006 at 8:58 am
I’m no WordPress Hero but I’ve seen folks use Spam Karma 2 to fight the Spamnation Comment Army.
February 20th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Wezzo – SK2 is a good plugin !!!!
Also use HashCash 2 – does a little javascript thingie with the server before allowing the comment – a little less admin intensive and they say works 100% – i haven’t been spammed yet !
February 20th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
What about a Captcha type spam blocker?
February 20th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Welcome back – missed you guys – sniff sniff.
February 20th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
CAPTCHA’s not a bad idea – I had to enable mine last week, seeing as I built up a few comments overnight. 693, to be exact… and I get mail notifications for every single one. It hurt.
February 20th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
You will need a decent spam plugin fast! Spam Karma 2 is good but so is Akismet which is built into WP2. I have both running and they work fine, although I have had problems with them labelling a few genuine comments as spam. Always check before deleting them, so it can become a bit of a chore.
February 21st, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Help! Anyone know why the avatars are not showing in Opera?
February 27th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Hi
Feel like sharing how you managed to get all your old MT posts imported ???
Thanks
February 27th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Sure…
Export your posts from TypePad to “import.txt” and use the Import menu item in WordPress to upload the file.
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Edit /wp-admin/import/mt.phpFind the “function get_entries()”
Change “$importdata = file($this->file);” so that “$this->file” actually is the path of your imported file on the server. So my entry became :
$importdata = file(“c:/Domains/joblog.co.za/wwwroot/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/import.txt
Just remember that each time you import a file with the same name in MT it increments the extension… so “import.txt” becomes “import.txt2″ if “import.txt” was already uploaded previously.
Also another problem I had was that it would only import for about 30 seconds after which I had to click back and then re-submit (It detects duplicates so it doesn’t import them but you may want to edit the file you are importing from and delete the posts which have already been imported (use ftp to go in, download your file, deleted entries and then upload, overwriting the import file).
Hope this helps??
February 27th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
mmmh i will give it a whizz ! And let you know !
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I couldnt agree more!
March 7th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Why do mice have small balls?
Not that many know how to dance.
March 9th, 2006 at 3:48 am
Hi, my name is joe, I am 13 years and doing a study project on Blogging. Would you mind me showing my teacher that I am here on this blog? Thank you very much. I found your blog very interesting. Bye.
March 9th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Hi Joe, of course we dont mind lil bro, but do me a favour please, some of that hardcore 3-way lesbian porn you’ve been sending me has been accidentally deleted, if you could send it again it would rock.
You da man…!
August 27th, 2011 at 12:47 am
Thanks – Enjoyed this post, is there any way I can receive an update sent in an email whenever you make a new update?