| Mon 28th May 2007 @ 4:38pm |
Non-Technical Summary
I just installed WP Hashcash on my blog to try to get rid of all the spam I've been getting. Hopefully no-one will notice it (except me), but please post some comments and let me know if you have any problems with it. Thanks.
Technical Bit
Akismet catches 99% of spam, but the few that get through are still annoying; and with so many I can't actually check the list for false-positives. I tried just adding a random hash in a hidden field to every post, but it seems the bots do read the HTML (rather than just submitting directly to wp-comments.php) - so that didn't work at all.
This time the hash is computed using JavaScript instead. I don't know of anyone who uses a browser without it (apart from Lynx/Links occasionally when loading a normal browser is too much hassle), so it shouldn't be much of a problem for anyone.
There is, however, some warning being shown by Firebug - "Illegal Character". I don't know why though.
(In other news: I also fixed the XHTML validation errors at last!)
| Tue 18th Jul 2006 @ 11:48pm |
I appear to have overwritten my uploads folder with an old version when I moved the site to this subdomain! So anything I've uploaded since the middle of April no longer works!
I'm hoping I have a (more) recent backup at home (on an external HDD) so I can upload them again, but I can't remember when I last did a backup. Fortunately I haven't uploaded much recently.
| Tue 23rd May 2006 @ 10:49am |
Right, my web site works again (except the smilies which I'll fix later), and I sorted the mood/music plugin so it shows on LJ. So now I've wasted an hour doing that I'm going to get dressed and actually do some work!
Well, once I find a suitable mood to select. Here's the default list (or I can enter my own instead):
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| Mon 22nd May 2006 @ 2:25pm |
I now have an MSN smilies plugin for both posts & comments. 
| Mon 22nd May 2006 @ 12:59am |
Just testing the mood/music plugin I just added...
Note: Currently only shows on the main site, not on LiveJournal.
Edit: Works now.
| Wed 22nd Feb 2006 @ 12:54am |
Thanks to LJXP, anyone with LiveJournal can now read my blog there!
| Mon 13th Feb 2006 @ 9:36pm |
I've only been using WordPress since Saturday evening, but I already found and fixed (or hacked-until-it-works anyway) a bug!
It took me an hour or so, and a lot of head scratching, but now I can get back to creating my own theme! (Or possibly doing some work, who knows!)
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