I went through my posts and found that more than half of them were simply dumped in the “Uncategorized” category that comes with Wordpress. I realized that I didn’t like my categories and they were actually obstacles to me posting. I went through and added categories for what I had posted and want to post [...]
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I use the plugin Bad Behavior on top of Aksimet to stop spam on my blog and something went strange with the old version I have; a blacklist started coming back with false positives but it has been fixed. So if you couldn’t post a comment try again.
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I’m impressed, I couldn’t keep up with everyone’s blog posts and comments and ended up with a good list of about 80 items to go through from the past 3 days. Got busy upgrading my computer and getting ready to build a media server/HTPC. With so much activity it is definitely important to use an [...]
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My blog isn’t terribly popular but I do have a good number of links to my plugins which has made me a more visible target for comment spammers. The built-in Wordpress spam filter does a pretty good job but it does nothing to stop bots from hammering my blog and eating up bandwith. One of [...]
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Things were getting a little old around the blog so I spruced things up a bit. Ditched the nav bar across the top, it was a bit of a pain to work with. Put login stuff in the sidebar like Nathan has on the Blarg, RSS buttons down at the bottom (which you should use, [...]
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