So it is done.
It took most of the day, as the true upgrade procedure isn’t exactly seamless by any means. I also had a lot mysql queries (that I’d worked out previously when I made my first half-assed attempt) to run so that things actually synced between my heavily modified b2 and wp’s ‘fun’ new way of doing things.
Thanks to the ability to moderate comments, well, I think I’ll turn them back on — for various newer entries only — until I get sick of the idea again. I’ve done just fine without any comments for an extremely long time, and I’m not going to bother displaying how many there are anywhere on the index, just because I’d get sick of seeing ‘0′ all the time. ;)
I did, finally, decide to slash apart some of the more idiotic code, I just couldn’t deal with the stupidity and lack of… variability. I still think, for all the ‘good things’ that have come with wp, so many of the ‘good things’ that made b2 what it was, a simple and effective tool, have been torn out.
The decision though was ultimately if I’d write into my hax0red b2 some of the things that I wanted or I’d tear out the crap from wp… tearing out the crap is easier. So, here were are, with all the spit and vinegar required, I’m using wp.
December 15th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
Yeah, it’s not entirely seamless. If you’d upgraded around the time of 1.0, you would have had these nice b2[rss|rdf|rss2].php files that would have pointed all 301-capable feed readers at your new URLs. But, of course, that got dropped from the >1.0 distro, and there’s not a clear way to download them.
And yeah, I’m sure that it wasn’t seamless for a b2 hacker like yourself.
At least there’s some active development with WP.
December 15th, 2004 at 11:04 pm
Did you have the oldstyle b2[rss|rss2].php in your feed reader?
I took a stab of having little header redirects in those files, but it just wasn’t working like it should have, no idea why. I gave up and used mod_rewrite guru power and I’m issuing redirects (now) with that for those two files — just like I’m rewriting the old permalink style from b2. I hate breaking URLs… it’s bad shit.
December 16th, 2004 at 4:13 pm
Sure did. I didn’t know if you’d use some mod_rewrite-fu or not, so I went in, edit the url to /feed/atom/ and went on about my aggregating. :)