I have used Drupal previously for a friends site so they would be able to manage the content themselves. (As I don’t want to be their bottleneck). But it seems that CMS’s require a fair bit of maintenance – mainly security upgrades. The latest version of WordPress makes it really easy. Click a link and the upgrade occurs automagically – too easy.

For the next community site I wanted to take the ease of WordPress. The site I am thinking of doing will require a bulletin board. Something like PHPBB would be great But I don’t think it integrates with WordPress that well. A few minutes ago I found http://bbpress.org/. It could be a winner…

I suspect my web host has some php functions disabled – maybe imap_open()? I’ve searched around the wordpress site and all looks OK as far as the version of PHP my web host is running. The error I get back is quite uninformative:

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POP3 connect: Error [] []

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Not very informative. Maybe I am an idiot…

UPDATE:
1. This post indicates that I need to change my pop connection to ssl://pop.gmail.com. Didn’t help. But I think that is because of…

2. This post that indicates that the php method fsockopen() may be disabled by my free web host. Bugger – it is disabled.

I have managed to export my blogger blog to a wordpress blog on my own domain. Was a bit more complicated then I expected.

The automatic import facility is broken for non-wordpress hosted blogs. I had to

1. create a blog hosted on the wordpress site
2. import from my blogger blog
3. export in wordpress xml format
4. import the wordpress xml to my domains wordpress blog

Not to self – delete the blog hosted on the wordpress site.

Anyway, welcome to my wordpress blog. I still have to change the default look’n'feel. But at least it’s working.