The site is now running on WordPress. I’m going to get some breakfast.
Much Later – Still problems with feeds. I’m updating tonight to the CVS snapshot of WordPress from this morning so breakages are likely, but hang on in there! We’re almost home!
Later Still – Merging of the CVS version of WordPress is complete. I’ll have to track this as time goes by but it looks to have solved the problems we had earlier! 
Look what I found today!
13 Comments
PerS (20 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 10:25 am.
thumbs up!
When do you plan to release the source?
Matt (15 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 10:32 am.
Woot! What do you think of everything? Hey when I loaded this page though it had PerS comment info (including his email) in there.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 10:40 am.
Thanks for pointing that out Matt – it’s a caching issue. I think I’ll use an insert function so those details aren’t cached.
Oh yeah, WordPress is great so far, must dig into it some more!
Donncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 11:00 am.
Sed “in-place editing is handy…
sed -i 's/\$comment_author/insert name='var' var=comment_author/' wp-blogs/*/templates/comments.htmlDonncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 11:38 am.
Re: source code release, it’ll be another week or so. I need to add a few more things to make it pallitable for others to install.
Matt (15 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 12:16 pm.
Groovy.
Mu?
PerS (20 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 12:23 pm.
Looking forward to test it
Btw, there is still a cache problem keeping the latest commenters data in the comment form, this time it had Matt comment info
Donncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 12:43 pm.
PerS – thanks, looking into that data issue now, you may see a few test comments appear here while I test!
Donncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 1:29 pm.
I think I have it fixed – when viewing single posts the comment name, email and uri are used in the cache key.
If the person viewing the post never commented on the site they get the generic post without details filled in but others will see their details inserted!
There’s a problem with using insert functions to insert that data too – the way the caching is setup, the only file that’s checked for cache staleness is index.html, but that file only ever sees completely filled in comment forms from wp-comments.php – ie. it doesn’t see the compiled insert commands at all!
Doh!
Bob Heffernan (1 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 2:49 pm.
Nice one Donncha. It looks a bit nicer than b2++ did. Are you finished the upgrade now (ie. – if I fiddle with my options will my changes be lost when you fix something else)? How different are the templates from b2++ to the ones for WordPress?
Donncha (1707 comments.) on September 15, 2004 at 2:55 pm.
You can edit posts and modify templates. If I need to do anything to templates site-wide I’ll mail everyone again and do it early in the morning (Irish time).
Edit options as much as you like. They won’t change AFAIK.
Templates are very different – template variables in b2++ for the most part have become template functions in WordPress. ie.
{$the_author_email}becomes{the_author_email}It looks like I’ll need to upgrade to the CVS version of WordPress too – there are problems with slashes in the 1.2 version that’s stopping the feeds working properly.
dude (1 comments.) on September 21, 2005 at 2:56 am.
the guy with balloons was angry with your photojournalism because he is CIA operative and you were crowding his cover, so to speak … don’t trust my words, look at the soul in his eyes in your photo and you can see he is “opperative” – perhaps the initials associated with employee are incorrect but opperative non the less :>0 … not that there is anything wrong with being opperative/undercover and viva the colorful balloons who inspire sidewalk subjects :>0
Manoj Sterex (1 comments.) on November 21, 2007 at 6:14 pm.
Sorry to bump an old post of yours with this unwanted comment. I got the link to this post from the ‘related posts’ of another post in your blog. Just good to know that you started using wordpress such a long time ago; and happy to actually see that wordpress has come a long way since!