Archive: Wordpress

I really have enjoyed using FeedForAll as a nice, customizable way to insert ANY RSS feed into a web page. I use it with some of my wordpress sites to get relevant news (relevant to the page in quest…

I've just updated my Wordpress install on 2 sites up to the new release version 2.7 which is now two days old or so. I quickly took a look at the sites and saw that the global translator plugin wasn'…

I spent the better part of a Friday night sorting this out. I had just launched 4 new wordpress blogs that were secondary installs on each server. (I use a VPS and /home/domain/www/ was the primary w…

I've started using a "universal translator" plugin for wordpress across most of my sites lately. In the past I've seen many people using google or bablefish translation to view pages (according to th…

I vaguely remember hearing about Google Gears when it was announced and it wasn't the kind of thing that grabbed a lot of peoples imagination or a lot of attention. Here's the description from the Go…

As you know I've used wordpress as a platform for many of my sites. It makes updating and adding information so quick and easy (as well as great extensions available for it and good theme possibiliti…

I've started adding the Share This plugin to several of my sites and was frustrated on one site to see on the front page "SHARETHIS.addEntry(" and a lot more ugly text. Upon investigation the < sc…

There are a lot of good things to like about the newer versions of wordpress. It seems to keep getting better. One of the really cool plugins is the Wordpress.com stats plugin. This lets you have a n…

I've started the process of upgrading several websites to the newest release of Wordpress and one of the things that became possible was installing bbpress. If you don't know what I'm talking about, …

There are a couple new software packages in wordpress' family: MuPress which is a multiuser (and multi-site) wordpress archicture... is available. IF that had been available a year ago, I might have …

I've FINALLY tracked down what was causing the issue with displaying my page in Internet Explorer 7 (RC1). It turns out that the stattraq plugin in wordpress (stattraq site) is part of the problem. N…

In working on the post related to software updates and making sure it was easy to find the category feed JUST for that led me on a "round the world" kind of quest to find a way to put the category fe…

It has been a few days now, but I noticed that Wordpress 2.0.4 has now been released and is highly recommended due to the fixing of a few security issues. They also list a number of bugfixes as well.…

Well it looks as though the storms of Trackback and Comment spam that I mentioned last week have just about tailed off now. About 6200-6300 posts were reported as junk by akismet and the "other" spam…

As I've already commented today.... there has been a massive trackback spam swarm going on the last 24 hours. I've now racked up 1300 or so in the Akismet filter on this site and another 150 or so on…

All of the the swarms of trackback spam seemed to last an hour give or take a few minutes, so it does look kind of like "rent-a-bot" activity, lots of different IP addresses, trackback spam sites see…

I seem to be getting the second flood of trackback spam attempts on the day. LOT's of ip addresses, from all corners of the globe - most seem to be casino-related trackback spam. I guess botnets are …

But perhaps you are not as powerful as the emporer has foreseen.... I just skimmed the stats and saw an abornmal spike in traffic over the last hour, so being curious.... I checked the server logs an…

I really like a lot of features about Wordpress. One is the ability to start a draft post and hang on to it indefinitely. If you haven't noticed, I've spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning out …

I've made mention I think that I use the stattraq plugin for wordpress as one of the ways to see where traffic is coming from on the site, etc. etc. etc. I think I mentioned it as one of my stat trac…

For around 3-4 months now I've had a REALLY annoying problem with the wordpress install on this site. Trackbacks suddenly stopped working. Somewhere around my 800th post or so while the WMF vulnerabi…