Welcome to Col's Weblog Version 3.0. As you can see, we've got a whole new colour scheme, a slightly wider layout and way more functionality. If you're curious, it's all based off the K2 theme for Wordpress with my gallery using code from the Falbum plugin - I've modified both of these quite extensively to suit my needs.
I've just checked the database for this site and found a whopping 717 spam comments in the DB that had been moderated. It seems WP doesn't delete them when you moderate, it just marks them as spam and doesn't publish them. Well, thanks to one simple plugin, they're all gone now with the reassuring message - "All spam Nuked! Rowr!". Lovely.
The Wordpress installation guide and the Moving Wordpress page in the Wordpress Codex detail how you can install Wordpress in one directory, eg http://www.domain.com/wordpress/ and access your blog from another, or from the base address or your site - eg http://www.domain.com.
These details are all well and good except for one thing - the caveats. Both these pages quote:
Well, it seems I was wrong about disabling WP-Hashcash - it seems this isn't what has caused my rapid increase of spam. So I've installed the Bad Behaviour plugin to see if that makes any difference. I'll watch the logs for a few days.
Word of warning... if you're using the WP-Hashcash plugin - don't disable it and leave it disabled for too long. Comment spam suddenly goes through the roof. I disabled it with the intention of tidying up my plugins... bad idea. It's back on an updated to v2.3 too.
Update: I've disabled this again as it's made no difference.
This morning I woke up a little earlier than expected and plonked by butt before the computer. I was reading through my list of most commonly read blogs, when I discovered that Michael over at BinaryBonsai had released the first beta of his new theme, K2, into the wild. So I thought, hell, why not. I already use a very …
I use WordPress to pretty much run most of this site. One of this things I've been doing for static pages, like my archives, gallery and colophon, is create a new PHP file, include the header and footer code from WordPress and then fill in my own content in the middle. This works, but is a bit of a pain …
Well, thus far getting rid of the plugins and relying purely on the built in functionality of Wordpress and the OCM plugin, no rubbish has got through, however I have got a couple of comments to moderate.
The next step in the spam fight is just simply refusing access from the spam site using a .htaccess file. Ok, I've thought about…
With all the comment spam hitting blogs, including mine, I've trialed several different spam protection plugins, including Spam-Karma and a couple other methods. Now I know I get a fair amount of comment spam, but these plugins also seem to be a bit harsh on the comments my mum leaves, and I'm sure I'm missing out on other comments, pingbacks …
Well, that was nice and easy. The upgrade to Wordpress 1.5 is complete and was relatively pain free. I had to change a couple of my static pages so they called the new get_header() and get_footer() functions and update my .htaccess file. But once all that was done, it all works a treat.
Welcome to Col's Weblog Version 3.0. As you can see, we've got a whole new colour scheme, a slightly wider layout and way more functionality. If you're curious, it's all based off the K2 theme for Wordpress with my gallery using code from the Falbum plugin - I've modified both of these quite extensively to suit my needs.