Says 161- Opera Blog Closing down, transfering to WordPress

MyOperaBloggingI got the notice on 2013 Dec 19, that Opera Blog will be closing down their blog site on March 1, 2014. That got me scrambling as I had nearly 900 posts on my Opera Blog. They recommended migrating to WordPress, and as I already had a WordPress account set up years ago, but wasn’t using, I decided to move the Opera posts to this site..
wordpress Unfortunately, when I logged in to my dashboard, and tried to view my site, I found that my account was suspended for violating the Terms of Service. That was weird as I only had 5 or 6 posts on it form years ago. While I couldn’t see my blog, I was able to start the process of importing my Opera XML files.
I then sent an email to WordPress, telling them what happened and what I wanted to do and waited to a email reply. I never got one, but this afternoon, I checked this site and low and behold, everything had been transferred. BIG weight off my shoulders… Thank you WordPress..

BTW, I had stopped using Opera back on Jan 22 2012, when I installed WordPress on my Website..

Says 150 – WordPress blog and my website hacked…

Web blog hacked2013 May 12 A friend emailed me to tell me that my blog had been hacked. I checked it out and sure enough, I got a black screen and a “not to pleasant” welcome message. When I clicked on the message, it displayed a picture, along with music and animated GIF’s boasting their success. I was in shock, as why would anyone want to target me, but then I realized that to these “otherkin,” it’s all a game and that creating chaos and misery is what turns them on.

HackerI reported my problem to my website host “Save on Hosting” and they took my website off line.  . I immediately began to scan my computer for any virus or Trojan that might have infected it. I ran my AVG, Malwarebytes, Spybot – search and destroy and even downloaded Microsoft security essentials and Kasperesky and ran them to check if anything had been missed but my machine was clean. After a few emails, they stated that WordPress had a vulnerability and that was how the hackers got into my site. We exchanged a few more emails and they re-stored a backup version of my website and had me back up and running. So while it was a shock and an inconvenience, it wasn’t a big deal.

Says 01 – New WordPress Blog

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Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve installed WordPress Blog on my website. My main concern was in getting a theme that I liked and so I hummed and hawed and looked at numerous websites and videos on how to manually install WordPress on your website.

Finally I decided to use the cPanel “site software” on my web host and install WordPress from there and see what happens. To my surprise it was a lot easier than I thought. I used the 5 minuet WordPress install and it was literally, installed it in under 5 minutes. It also contained two WP themes, Twenty ten and Twenty Eleven.. and Twenty Ten was one of the themes I liked. It also prompted me to update to 3.3.1. so I also have the latest version.

Now it’s a matter of tweaking it to my liking and I’m off to the races..  well almost. I still  have to edit my websites to add the new link and then update the changes to my websites..  I also have to add a post and link in my old Opera Saysame Blog pointing to this site..