I have to move a clients BlogEngine.Net site to WordPress. I have had people ask why would I want to that, I just am doing what has been requested of me. I have managed to get the BlogML file exported out of BlogEngine.Net. I have gone over it and it looks like everything is there. I have also retrieved all images from posts and put them in a zip.
My questions are in general what difficulties have you experienced doing this? What inconsistencies might I expect to happen during this process?
Hosting: We are going to use DreamHost. Would just your basic LAMP hosting with WordPress installed be enough. I know its enough for the site, but with the BlogML import will there be anything that arises that would need more rights to the machine that basic hosting would provide?
BlogML Import: What is the recommended tool to use to import the XML file into the WordPress site? What has been used tried and true? I found this tool by Aaron Learch and this tool by Wayne John are these the only 2 options?
BlogML Import: What difficulties may arise with the import process?
What i have learned in the inter-webs that may arise.
I have seen possible memory size errors.
Permissions issues.
Edits to the BlogML file. As well as manual edits after import to be found..... That is kinda scary :0
So anything you may know that i have not listed would be extremely helpful.
Thank you
One thing you may run into is a problem with internal links. There are plugins that you can get Broken Link Checker & Redirection which will help you fix these problems.
Another problem you might have is with any hosted files, images, etc. If you back these up as well from your current server's images/files directories, you may be able to replace them.
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A few months ago I created a staging Wordpress site to implement some changes on my website. The databases run on phpMyAdmin (although I'm not sure if this is relevant). I would like to save the comments (the ones that are already published and the ones I've received recently), so my plan is to save them as it follows:
Save all comments and disallowed IPs from the regular website. I believe this is done by downloading the Commentmeta and Comment databases, although I'm not 100% sure. Are there other relevant databases?
Import those comments to the staging site.
Export the whole staging site (databases and webspace) to the regular website and let it run all the updates.
If this isn't the right way to do it or you know a better / more effective / safer method I'd appreciate to know it.
I'm trying to locate the file in which the Comment Blacklist / Disallowed List of my website is stored. I don't use any comment plugins besides the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded, although I don't think this one would store the data I'm looking for.
I'm fairly new to web developing, but I'm not sure if this file should be on a specific database or on a certain folder of the webspace, so all insights are welcome and much appreciated!
Hello,
Our site design is complete and open to visitors. Now we want to fix our site bugs, or add new features. And we want to upload the new version of the site whenever we are sure of the changes. The problem is that we can't use localhost because we're two people working on this project and we're far from each other. what is your suggestion? Can copying the original site on a subdomain (which is closed on search engines) be the solution? Sorry if my English is weak :)
use GitHub or some "Team Code Engines" like Floobits...
You can use a FTP Server or some other File Transfer Protocol to share the Data but it's not "Live Coding" !
I think GitHub is the best option. In Github you can handle version easily can create branch based on requirements.
but for that i think you need to buy premium account on Git, So that Your code will be private it will not be public.
I am writing to see if anyone has any tips on how one might be able to duplicate a Wordpress site.
We have branded and designed a research study site, and would like to copy this site entirely and rebrand it for a different study.
Does anyone know what might need to go into this to do so? Having trouble figuring this out!
Best,
Taylor
I guess it depends on what you mean by "rebrand". To just duplicate the site should be a relatively easy job to do. You will have to download everything from you public_html and also get a backup of your database. Then upload the files from public_html to a new hosting and also import the database.
After that part now arise some more things. First of the domain name. You will need to change the domain name to reflect a new one you want to use -- i will not get into details about that since you can find lots of good tutorials on how to do that with simple googling. If you need to change any pictures/logos and anything else since you designed it you should know what to change.
Then if there are remaining parts that need to be changed, for example there are many cases in texts fields where the brand of the previous research site is mentioned then I can suggest using a tool like wp-cli which is the only tool currently that comes to my mind for such a cache. It is a really useful and powerful tool but it requires you to have access to ssh to the hosting.
If i come up with something else as well, I will update this.
This is odd...
I have a WordPress site with a Learning Management System. I am getting a ton of emails from people saying why I have embedded their copyright videos on my site?
Is this a spoof - can a hacker someone spoof analytics?
Here's my question though: how can I search for embedded Vimeo Videos on my site? Where could I seek embeds in WordPress?
Thanks!
This might a php code injection so you should also try to search for it in your php files as well.
Try downloading the whole theme folder and plugins folder (with all plugins). Then you would need to run search across all those files. Usually malware code is using eval functions so you should search for eval across all those files. Searching one by one would take forever so use grep tool.
For windows I would recommend windows grep http://www.wingrep.com/
For Mac I would recommend visualGrep app which is paid app and costs around 2 bucks but totally worth it.
If you have linux then you would need to find the software yourself or you can run such a search from the command line. (Actually you can use CLI on any system but I just prefer having app with GUI fur such task)
in 99% of cases (from my experience) you will find something like:
eval(base64_decode('dsalkndsalndsadkasnldakslasdkn'));
That will be the malware code and you should take care of it (remove). If the code is in the plugin, then you should get rid of such a plugin probably.
Hope this helps.
Last Wednesday a variety of the WordPress sites I manage got hacked, they were infected with a Viagra link (malware is so original).
I noticed in the wp-includes directory a file called utils.php (wp-includes/js/tinymce/utils/utils.php), also an addition to my general-template.php for the get_footer function.
This hack seems to only affect Google search results for sites, not the site when directly viewed by entering the URL, i.e your cached site will show a malware infested mess and lose ranking, meanwhile you will wonder why due to the site looking fine when viewed.
My host (TSO Host) have cleaned up the sites, didn't even need to ask, but I have no idea how the infection got there in the first place.
So my question is, does anyone know how the breach happens and what I can do to prevent it, other than the usual security tips?
This happened to a site that I spent weeks cleaning up. I can give you a few pointers:
Go through the Wordpress core files (under wp-admin and wp-includes) and delete all files that you don't see in the default wordpress instillation. I've never seen a plugin create a file in one of those 2 directories. After this, it'd be a good idea to re-install Wordpress, just in case they changed any of the existing files.
After that, change your Wordpress/FTP/SSH passwords as they've likly been cracked. Install WP Better Security. It seems a little annoying at first, but you can monitor everything with it, change the login slug, remove version info hackers can use to find security holes, black-list known hackers, and so much more.
Finally, this last one will take some time. Google your theme and each one of your plugins, and see if Wordpress has stopped using them because they were a security vulnerability. You'd be surprised at how many plugins haves holes. Try to avoid really new plugins, and try to use the same plugin for as many different sites as you can. If you're hosting more than one site on the same server and one of the sites gets hacked, they're all hacked.
It sounds like a pain, and it is a little bit, but after you're done you'll feel so much better knowing that you're in control of everything. Trust me.