I’ve spent the last hour going through recent comment spam. Most every blog is subject to comment spam in some form or another. Basically, rogue computers will try and place random comments on blogs that have little, if anything, to do with the post they’re commenting on. The comments will then link back to someContinue reading “On Reviewing Comment Spam”
Tag Archives: meta
On Stupid Spammer Morons
I received a report via e-mail. 404 errors. A lot of 404 errors. What’s a 404 error? Chances are you’ve seen one. You may not realize what it is, though. What a 404 error means is that the page you’re looking for can’t be found. Doesn’t exist. It’s that simple. Or, it could be thatContinue reading “On Stupid Spammer Morons”
On More Tinkering
And now, at last, I’m happy with the way the tag listing appears in the sidebar. 🙂 WordPress 2.3 added tags to the code core, only it didn’t really provide any good methods of working with them. And the solution that worked for previous iterations of WordPress — Ultimate Tag Warrior — didn’t work anyContinue reading “On More Tinkering”
On the Month-End Round-Up
Things I’ve discovered. I have a lot of readers in Indiana. This surprises me, as I’ve only ever driven through Indiana, yet I have more regular readers in Indiana than I do in, say, Utah. Other popular tourist destinations for allyngibson.net are Florida, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Norway. Also, China and Saudi Arabia. No, thisContinue reading “On the Month-End Round-Up”
On Some New Changes
The Stonehenge theme was always a short-term solution. I knew that WordPress 2.3 was coming. I knew it was adding tagging to the core. And I knew that meant changes under the hood to the way WordPress themes worked. I remember the upgrade to 2.1. Oh, do I remember the upgrade to WordPress 2.1. SoContinue reading “On Some New Changes”
On Restoring Service
Sometimes things break. Like the blog. Sometimes it breaks. 🙂 To make a long story short, I’d decided before the upgrade to WordPress 2.3 that I’d wanted to put up a new layout scheme for the blog. I’d found exactly what I wanted. It looked clean. It looked modern. It looked super spiffy. But becauseContinue reading “On Restoring Service”
On Tagging
The latest release of WordPress added native post tagging to the core. The one great problem with the WP 2.3 release, though, is that it has no management tools to handle tagging. There’s an extra field in the Write Post screen, but that’s it. What if you want to go back and retrospectively add tags?Continue reading “On Tagging”
On Mood Icons
A few years ago I used Alden Bates’ Dalek mood icons on the blog. Then, for whatever reason, I stopped using mood icons. In retrospect, it was probably that I’d changed the layout and they didn’t “fit” well with whatever layout I had going at the time. So, we’re going to give them another shot.Continue reading “On Mood Icons”
On Technical Difficulties
Just an FYI. My e-mail server is… acting up. Incoming e-mails are… chancey. Outgoing e-mails are a crapshoot. If you’ve sent me an e-mail, I may not have seen it. If I’ve sent you an e-mail, it may not have gone out. In the meantime, if you need to flag my attention, leave a commentContinue reading “On Technical Difficulties”
On Things I Am Not
From time to time I like to pull the logs of the search phrases used to reach this fine webpage. I wonder at times… What topics do people think I can offer insight into? What do people want to know? How can I educate? Instead, I discover that people think I run a fan club.Continue reading “On Things I Am Not”