Scott Nolan’s Rants, Raves, and Meandering Thoughts
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Used Dreamhost’s easy to use one click install to upgrade to WordPress 2.5, and it looks much easier to edit on the fly with embedded HTML code. The dashboard is very different, may take getting used to; but it puts the most important stuff on top (useful on a short, wide display like a laptop).
FYI - for those who are still using Blogspot; Google has done something silly to the capcha code that blocks comment spammers, and I cannot comment on your Blogspot blogs anymore.
Vermin spammers! Over the weekend they figured out how to get by the older versions of WordPress with older versions of Akismet spam filter module/plug-in, so I came home from dance competition to discover hundreds of spams in my WordPress blog’s moderation queue and thousands that had been blocked.
Making things worse a few guest blogs I help friends run had the same problem. So I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 (thanks to DreamHost for making that a “one click” per blog install) and huge thanks to the WordPress team for including the upgrade to Akismet plug-in 2.0 in that install. I am hoping that shuts down the vermin.
Makes one glad that LJ handles all this stuff for you… My LJ blog was completely un-impacted by the burst in spam activity over the weekend. Yay LiveJournal!
Before you start that spam-bot, before you hire someone to put your advert-flyer under my windshield wiper, before you send misleading links to your gambling/porn/drug business to my web log, before you send me an instant message; please try to think this through.
Just think for a second what you would do if you were receiving all this crap.
So I had trouble figuring out how to activate the Akismet filters on my WordPress blog, because I could not find my own API Key - turns out you must register a WordPress.com blog to get that key.
This became more important recently because the amount of spam commentary showing up on my blog was increasing dramatically the last few days. We’ll see how well Akismet filters now.
This is an experimental post with MarsEdit 1.1.2. Not sure I like it just yet.
I have used MacJournal quite a bit and I like the way I can use it to post to both LiveJournal and WordPress (or Blogger), but it lacks a few features that are available at the admin interfaces on LiveJournal’s website and my WordPress website.
Anyone know of an application that has all of the above? Heck, Ideally it would write to blogger, wordpress, and LJ with ease (I am maintaining several blogs now, each with it’s own id, password, and premise).
So it turns out MarsEdit does not allow me to quickly send the same draft to two blogs. Sigh.
Amazing! WordPress imported my entire Blogger web log in around 25 seconds. I have not been able to get the same themes working in my WordPress blog yet, and I am concerned about backing up the MySQL database behind my new blog (one of the side benefits of publishing in a free service, but pushing back to my own domain is built-in redundancy). Once I figure those issues out, I’ll probably commit to switching from Blogger to WordPress. I’ll also have to figure out how easy or hard it is to publish to both LiveJournal and WordPress from MacJournal like I do now (with Blogger and LiveJournal).
