“A friend (a good publisher) just got tossed from Google's index because his site is eaten up with porn links. He needs help and wants to hire someone to find the intrusion and sanitize the site. The source isn't obvious. Any takers? WordPress.”
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Ask Brazell. @technosailor. - Mona N.
Fantastic idea Mona, thanks. :-) - Chris Baskind
Shot Aaron a note, but this call is open until someone is hired. Respond this thread or chris /at/ chrisbaskind.com . Thanks. - Chris Baskind
Aaron's on the case. Thanks Mona and everyone. Yay FriendFeed. - Chris Baskind
Thanks for the referral. Anyone needing WP help including hacked WP can feel free to contact me - Aaron Brazell
Google should provide a tool for blogger that lets you search your comments by a word and then mass delete those comments. The fact that Google only allows blogger users to delete spam comments one at a time is lame. I could probably get rid of 50% of the spam comments on my blog if I could just screen comments for about a dozen words and then mass delete them. WOW, gold, non English comments, etc. Google should make a way to do this for blogger users. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas: Can I ask why you're still sticking with blogger instead of moving to Wordpress? You don't mess with your theme daily, so that removes the only problem folks have with wordpress.com. It even imports all your content for free - and SPAM filtering rocks. Why blogger? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Echoing Yuvi's sentiments. It's not like you don't have your own domain. Permalinks can be preserved, which is about the biggest hurdle most Blogger users cite in why they don't switch. Nothing is better than Akismet. - Aaron Brazell
A couple of reasons why I'm sticking with Blogger. 1. I've heard that blogs with thousands of comments have trouble transferring all of their comments to WordPress. 2. I like the fact that comments from FF flow through to the comments section on my blog not sure if I could easily do the same thing with WordPress. - Thomas Hawk
Though I wouldn't suggest WordPress.com because he owns thomashawk.com - and yes he could pay for domain mapping but why would he when he could just install WordPress on his own domain and be done with it. - Aaron Brazell
Thomas, email me. aaron@technosailor.com - Aaron Brazell
@Thomas I believe that comments flow from FF to WP blogs just fine. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
just emailed you Aaron. So Yuvi, you are saying that if I moved to WordPress that all of the FF comments attached to my blog posts could be transferred over as well and those FF comments could be appended to blog posts in the future? - Thomas Hawk
Just looked at the file to move from blogger to WP again (I looked at this a few years ago as well). I just don't understand all of the language or how to even being to try: " * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information by
* visiting {@link http://codex.wordpress.org/Edi... Editing
* wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
*
* This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
* installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
* to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values. - Thomas Hawk
I'm not technical enough to figure out what any of that means and wouldn't begin to know how to transfer my blog from Blogger to WP even if I wanted to. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas: I recommend you get someone to install and configure wordpress for you. Using it/Admin is pretty simple. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
That's why you have friends. :) - Aaron Brazell
I've used it before on another blog and found the admin functionality very easy to understand and intuitive. Getting it onto my server and getting my blogger files transferred over to it is not something I'm as comfortable with. In part given that it all has seemed so complicated I've continued to suffer through blogger. Although blogger is leap years ahead of where they were a few years ago when they were having massive and daily service problems. - Thomas Hawk



