I can not believe I waited this long to do this upgrade. What could go wrong? Everything, I thought. And yet, it went flawlessly. As you can see, I have taken only one step away from the default theme, and installed another theme. Steps will be taken in the future. What this move to a …
Category Archives: WordPress
Upgrade and upgrading
Luisa just upgraded to the new WordPress version, 1.5 (Strayhorn), and it is so much better than this 1.2 thing. Tobias also runs the 1.5 and I suffer from deep version envy. The comment spam problem should be interesting to look at, as they have just begun using their new 1.5 WordPresses. Has the upgrade …
Comment spam: Trackbacks
Folks are whining about spam in comments. I whine about spam sent by WordPress to me, containing links to the usual spam-bait. So, today, I concentrated a bit, wandered in the (rather clean, for PHP) code, and found my line. In the folder wp-includes/functions.php there is a function called wp _ notify _ postauthor Open …
bbPress!
bbPress is the new forum software from the folks who created WordPress. It is bound to be great. On the homepage they make five commitments: 1. Open Source, always and forever 2. Less (code) is more 3. Simplicity is a feature 4. Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience 5. Put …
WP plugin: Auto Shutoff Comments
Auto Shutoff Comments lets you close the comments submission after X days. It is now activated here at the site, mostly for spam reasons.
Plugin added: PHPizer
Ah! New stuff is so good to me. The Phpizer plugin for WordPress puts some atmosphere in posted PHP code. Now I might even post code examples on the site. [php] phpinfo(); [/php] Try that at home, kids. Be sure to have an adult at hand to debug it.
Introducing the end of comment spam: Jobolito Turing Test
**w00t!** Putting an end to comment spam troubles. Now, this website sports new technology to combat the lurid zen-like spam comment messages that accompany URLs to poker and gambling websites, namely Jonas Bohlin‘s great freely available WP plugin called Jobolito Turing Test. Jonas says: This plugin distinguishes beetween human posters and machine posters. It does …
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