Comments on: I’ve migrated from b2evolution to wordpress

By: MaxTheITpro

MaxTheITpro — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:32:26 +0000

Well, I’m a big Blogger user with lots of blogs there plus I got a lot of peeps here in Kenya into blogging over there when I touched down in East Africa 28 months ago even though I was only coming for a 1 week biz trip.
But then I heard that WordPress’ code is “ugly” and that people’s blogs are always getting hacked. OTOH, I’ve looked at the features of the new 2.5 version and I’m wondering if it’s safe to dip my feet in the WP pool.

I want to badly…but then I hear all of those plugins that make it such a great blog tool are also it’s achiles heel, meaning that you become locked into a particular version of WP making upgrading a nightmare. Then again, every blog software has its warts.

By: Timothy Takemto

Timothy Takemto — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:00:58 +0000

Two years later and I am thinking the same thing. B2evo is a bit too “owned” which means a smaller development team and less good new stuff. I get spammed. And while MT does a good job (inmyopion) of managing multiple blogs, I am not convinved by the B2 back office. Wordpress is bristling with good plugins. It is almost the standard.

But I still miss the MT interface.

By: Chris Brunner .com

Chris Brunner .com — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:12:48 +0000

Switching from b2evolution to WordPress…

Like many others, I’ve decided to ditch b2evolution in favor of WordPress. The biggest reasons were:

b2evolution has almost no protection against spam. They have this goofy little centralized blacklist that’s maintained by one person a…

By: Chris Brunner

Chris Brunner — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:29:49 +0000

Hi Ben,

Same story as the others who’ve left comments so far. I’m also looking to move from b2 to WP for exactly the reasons you’ve cited. How did you avoid the issue of keeping your permlink URLs intact? Did you run into any problems with the migration?

Thanks in advance,
Chris Brunner

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:53:50 +0000

Same question, I’m afraid. I used b2evolution because it was simple, but now I want to migrate. How do I do it? Thanks for any help you can give.

By: Lars

Lars — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:24:32 +0000

I too am interested in how you migrated from b2e to Wordpress, since I am soon going to do the same. Appreciate any pointers you might have.

By: desh

desh — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:16:53 +0000

Hi Ben:

I too have a b2e blog .. and I am getting frustrated with it now!! I want to move over too. Can you help with the process of migrating the stuff from b2e to wordpress… did you use any tools? I aint a techie so please explain in a lay mans terms

Thanks in advance.

Desh