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DoFollow Spam and Other Comment Type Improvements

Within the last several months there’s been a change in the comment spam that’s plagued bloggers ever since the dregs of society first found out how they could benefit from leaving their crap in the comment sections of posts. You know the type; 20 offers for prescription medications along with another 15 offers to [...]

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Switched from Akismet to Defensio

Ah, the weirdness never ends does it. After troubleshooting a very weird problem for a friend of mine on her WordPress install I came back to my fine running install only to find strange unexplained SQL errors in my error log. On top of that I seemed to have spam comments entered into the error [...]

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Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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Trackbacks Blocked by Overzealous Spam Blocker

Just when you think everything is going smoothly you find out something is awry and today when I checked my Dashboard I noticed I had a few new incoming links displayed in Google’s Blog search box as well as Technorati’s. So what the hell happened to the trackbacks that were supposed to be there.
Aaarrrgh!
Seems that [...]

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Just Thinkin back online

Alrighty then. After backing up my database, theme, plugins and all sorts of other crap, starting with a brand new fresh WP install, importing my database, reinstalling all my plugins, setting up this that and the other thing…
(deep breath)
…my beloved ol’ blog is back up and running full steam and (so far) the problems [...]

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My Blogging Setup

Back on the 6th of this month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger put up a video giving a tour of his “ProBlogger’s Headquarters” and invited others to respond by putting up their own picture or video of their blogging setup. So far their have been nearly 100 comments on this one post of his and many [...]

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My biggest blogging fault

True confession time here. After all, it’s always good to know one’s limitations don’t you think? And this one pertains to my personal blogging effort here and my largest associated fault which is…
I’m too technically oriented.
No, I don’t mean in my writing style which is haphazard as my subjects are but rather my overall nature [...]

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No Apparent Reason for Site Problems

Well, guess I won’t have to start fresh after all. Although comments posting and the page not refreshing is still happening on and off and neither my host nor myself can find a reason for it. So after dealing with this for most of the day I figure it’s enough.
Let the site ride, I say. [...]

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