I made the transition to WordPress one year ago yesterday. I’ve been very pleased with the quality of the blogware. According to Blog Stats on the Dashboard page, I’ve made 369 posts and have received 650 (legitimate) comments. SpamKarma2 has done a wonderful job of containing the illegitimate comments–better known … Continue reading →
I think this update went well…if you notice anything strange, please let me know.
Continue reading →After crawling out of bed bright and early to take Hershey for a nice morning stroll, discovering it was pouring rain, crawling back into bed, and getting up a bit later, I flipped on the computer (it’s the second thing I do after getting up in the morning–use your imagination … Continue reading →
Just my experience: It doesn’t work. The upgrade.php file was looking for files that weren’t there. I reinstalled my 2.0 files and I think things are back to normal. Whew! That was an ugly, ugly forty minutes while I fought with that.
Continue reading →I’ve encountered two annoying things with WordPress 2.0, and neither thing is directly WordPress’ fault. Both are a problem with ZoneAlarm Pro, my firewall. One, the “enable referrers” problem surfaced tonight, and I think it’s solved–I had to enable Private Headers for my blog site. Easy enough. If you’ve encountered … Continue reading →
I upgraded to WordPress 2.0 tonight. If you notice anything strange, please let me know. So far, this is looks like a really nice upgrade. From the backend side, anyway; from the frontend, everything looks the same, so far.
Continue reading →I found what may be a better way to track my completed reading. I’ve created a page for it. Eventually, I may create sub-pages for prior years, but for now, to see what I’ve read this year, click on the reading list link under pages. Tracking it in Links was … Continue reading →
Lee Goldberg writes about Lewis Perdue‘s new book, The Perfect Killer, and the reader extras he includes–a page-specific online index. I don’t know about you, but I do stuff like this as I’m writing the book anyway. I know Holly Lisle makes a lot of extras available on her site. … Continue reading →
Thanks to Steph for pointing me in the direction of two Anti-Spam Plug-Ins for WordPress. I installed Bad Behavior yesterday (works on any php-based blogging software, not just WordPress). When I found 24 spams this morning, I went back to check the Bad Behavior help logs. They recommended working in … Continue reading →
I love to hear “I’ll be back” or “I’ve put you on my favorites” from real readers; however, I hate reading it on comment spam posts. That’s the type of chatty comment spammers write in their comment spam to make the unwary blogger think someone’s actually visited their site and … Continue reading →