New blog, post collating, BBcode, spam, wordpress api key
February 7, 2009 3 Comments
New Blog
Well, now I have more bandwidth and space on the server, I installed wordpress with the view to consolidate all my other blogs and forums howto guides here in one single place.
Post Collating
The strange thing is, that I could import from Blogger directly from blog-to-blog over the internet, but I couldn’t perform the same easy import from WordPress to WordPress. You need to create a wordpress backup then import that file from your desktop. Now i’m not sure if I missed something, but I couldn’t find the “export” option on my wordpress.com hosted blog.
BBcode Plugin
All my website and blog posts were html so they were easy to import or copy and paste. Thank Devs for the BBcode plugin for WordPress, it meant that I could just copy and paste any useful Howto’s I posted on ther forums here, without having to manually edit all the html tags.
Akismet Spam Blocker
Obviously I setup Akismet straight away, as those bastard scum spammers are always lurking around the corner. It even places a cool Spam Blocked Counter for your sidebar, which shows how many of these scumbags have been sent packing to date. Well, this blog has been up a week, and it has stopped four Casino site spammers already. Shit! the spammers found me even before Google did!!
WordPress Api Key for Self Hosted Blogs
If you want to use Akismet and WordPress stats on your own blog on your own server, you will have to insert an api key. If you haven’t got a WordPress blog, go and sign up for one at wordpress.com. You will get an api key assigned to that blog.
http://en.wordpress.com/api-keys/
Now, if your wordpress.com username is different from the one on you use on your own blog, just create a new user with the same name as on your worpress.com blog, list them as an admin. Now logout, sign in as that user, and insert the api key.
It’ll tell you that this api key is from another user/blog blah blah, just choose associate with this blog and you’re done. Now you can use your api key for Akismet and Blog stats.
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