Alex Sleat

b2evolution to WordPress

Ok so I just found a quick hack to get b2evo posts into WordPress, I’m not sure if it will work for everyone but because I only had about 60 posts. This seems to import the content of the post but not categories and tags, not sure what else is missing though.

1. In your b2evo dashboard Blog Settings > Blog > Features
2. Change “Posts in feeds:” to the amount of posts
3. Save your RSS feed as .php
4. In the WordPress dashboard Tools > Import > RSS
5. Upload the rss.php file
6. Done

As long as the rss file is below 2MB you should be all sweet, I’m going to guess around average 800/900 posts (depending on content) should be OK (just change the amount until the file is below 2MB). After that I imagine you could delete those which were imported safely and then repeat.

(2 megabytes)(MAX) / (130 kilobytes)(My File) = 15.753
58 Posts in 130kb
58 * 15 = 870 posts? //rounding down. better be safe than sorry

Tags: b2evo, export, hack, import, rss, wordpress
Posted in Miscellaneous · August 20th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Old Blog

The old blog is currently residing at www.alexsleat.com/index2.php until I find a way of importing b2evolution to wordpress, if I can’t I might have to spend 30mins or so copy & pasting the most important posts. Luckly I never posted that many on b2evo, I’ll look at getting my OLD OLD blogger ones here too..

Tags: b2evo, export, import, wordpress
Posted in Miscellaneous · August 20th, 2009 · Comments (0)

Wordpress Installation Guide on 000webhost.com

What you will need:
The latest WordPress (www.wordpress.org)
000webhost account (www.000webhost.com)

Instructions:

1. Grab the latest WordPress build from their site.
2. Login to 000webhost.com.members, go to cpanel and use the File Manager (or any ftp client you prefer).
3. Upload the wordpressx.x.x.zip to wherever you want your blog (public_html directory if you want it as your main page). Make sure to check the unzip button when uploading to extract the folder onto the server.
4. At the moment your blob would show up as domain.com/wordpress, if this is not where you wanted it you can move it, I moved all the files in the wordpress directory to public_html which is why my blog apears when you visit www.alexsleat.com not www.alexsleat.com/wordpress.
5. Back up to the cpanel and head to MySQL where you will want to create a new database and username, fill in the fields as you wish (example: database – wp, username – admin, password – password(choose something a little more secure ;p))
   

   MySQL database example

6. Now make a copy of these details for a moment in text editor or notepad etc and head back to the File Manager where you will want to rename wp_config-samples.php to wp_config.php, now edit it and add in the details as below (if you used the example from above).// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', '******_wp');

   /** MySQL database username */
   define(‘DB_USER’, ‘******_admin’);

   /** MySQL database password */
   define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);

   /** MySQL hostname */
   define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql2.000webhost.com’);

7. Now goto http://domainname.whatever and finish up the install by following the onscreen instructions

Done & done.

Extra:
If you wish to edit your themes you may have to change the permissions, for this I used FileZilla and browsed to the themes folder, right click on this and change the permissions to 777.

In order to be able to upload files, pictures etc you need to create an directory called “uploads” in the “wp-content” and again change the file permissions to 777.

Tags: 000webhost, guide, install, setup, theme, wordpress
Posted in Miscellaneous · August 19th, 2009 · Comments (0)