Ctrlr mirror site, need help with wordpress.

[Ted-juh]

As you might have noticed, the Ctrlr site is down. There's no word from Atom about whether it's permanent or just temporary. Whatever the case is, it's a shame to not have access anymore to the panels/ Ctrlr setup files or the most valuable thing, in my opinion, the forum. Because it was a valuable source of information.

Luckily enough there is a site called Wayback Machine which holds a complete backup of the Ctrlr site. Because the Ctrlr Site uses WordPress as a backend, the site is not fully functional on the Wayback Machine website. For instance, you can browse the forum but
the search function results in a 404 request.

Does anybody know a way to run the site locally? Given the fact that I have a complete mirror of the Ctrlr site on my PC right now. But my knowledge of WordPress or hosting websites is limited. Or perhaps, does anybody know how to get the site working again on a different host? (Dnaldoog offered to host the site.).

[RomanKubiak]

ctrlr.org should be working, it's closed as in "no new users are accepted". this wordpress instance is full of spam and I can't de-spam it. i'm getting emails from companies that some of the "spam" pages on ctrlr.org break some laws. I'm keeping it up, but i don't know for how long. It would be great if someone more familiar with wordpress could help.

[Ted-juh]

Nice to hear from you Roman. As it is now, the site is just throwing a black screen for me. Don't know if that is just me.

And yes, I saw all the tags and forum posts with spam in my files. Must be a pain in the butt to keep up with that. As said, my knowledge of WordPress is very limited to non-existent, so I hope someone else jumps in to help you out here.

[damiensellier]

@RomanKubiak Good to hear from you Roman. Hope everything is alright on your side.
First step would be to clean up the site by moderating the thousands pending comments with a dedicated plugin.
Then we would need to install or setup antispam with akismet, and increase security and "commenting" rights for users with the appropriate login/captcha/antibruteforce plugins.
It takes a little bit of effort, worst case scenario is to use Facebook comments or disqus instead of the stock wordpress comment system.