Well it’s that time again. Every now and then a blog needs sprucing up and mine’s no different. This time though, most of the changes are under the hood. I updated my Wordpress theme to a newer version and while there are no significant visual differences, there are a bunch of little [...]
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Wordpress Upgrade
December 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Web Development
I’ve finally updated to Wordpress 2.7. I won’t even tell you how far behind I was in my updates because it’s rather embarrassing. Let’s just say I wasn’t quite with the 2.0 crowd yet.
I have to say that I’m absolutely floored to see the massive UI improvements and was shocked to find how [...]
Akismet Flawless So Far
November 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments · Web Development
Akismet has caught 175 spam for you since you first installed it.
Akismet’s been working flawlessly since I’ve installed it. No false positives to report at this point and it’s caught every single piece of spam that’s crossed its path. I’m very impressed and as a result have lifted pretty close to all of [...]
My Favorite Wordpress Feature
November 19th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Web Development
Drafts. While it’s a very simple feature, it’s unbelievably useful. The ability to put together half-thoughts while they’re going through your mind and return to them later to write a sensible post can dramatically improve your quality of writing. I’ve already done this a number of times and currently have 3 drafts [...]
Using Akismet
November 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Web Development
Akismet is a plugin for Wordpress designed to combat spam. After reading a post over at Lorelle’s blog about a successful fight against spam, I decided to at least begin my fight with akismet.
As of late I’ve been getting a lot of spam. It never made it to my website because I moderate [...]
A Wordpress and RSS Learning Experience
March 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
When I first started to use wordpress, I was displeased with how the RSS feed worked. Or at least I was displeased with how I thought it worked.
You see there was this field called “Optional Excerpt” that I thought was where you had to fill in anything you would want in the RSS feed [...]