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Changes I’ve made and hacks I’ve added to make my WordPress installation do what I want it to.

Bad Behavior

I’ve star­ted using the Bad Behavior/Bad Beha­viour plu­gin for Word­Press, which is meant to cut down on the num­ber of spam­bots that attempt to access my site. In the­ory it shouldn’t block any real vis­it­ors, although this has been known to hap­pen, so if you notice any prob­lems (e.g., can’t get to my blog from […]

2007 04 07 Comments (2)

Hacked!

On top of being framed (and yes, they’re still there), my site was recently hacked. Some­how someone man­aged to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And man­aged thereby to elev­ate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the […]

2007 02 08 Comments (2)

On the Air Again

The mov­ing went rel­at­ively pain­lessly, although I should really have waited until the DNS move had taken effect before killing my DYNDNS account, since that meant the site was out of com­mis­sion for a little longer than abso­lutely neces­sary. Mind you, that was prob­ably all of two hours, so not a big deal. Everything should […]

2006 11 01 Technology Comments (0)

Moving Hosts

Our PC in the base­ment is get­ting over­loaded with my site (spam attacks are on the increase), so I’m mov­ing Any­way to a host­ing ser­vice. It will prob­ably take a day or two to get the wrinkles ironed out and the DNS rout­ing hooked up prop­erly; I’ll post again when it’s all set.

2006 11 01 Technology Comments (0)

Upgrading to WordPress 2.0.2 from 1.5.2

I’ve been prom­ising to upgrade to Word­Press 2.0.2 for some time, and being on preg­nancy leave seemed to be the right time to do it (up early in the morn­ings, no press­ing work-related pro­jects). As usual, the actual pro­cess of upgrad­ing was simple and mostly just worked; I use WS-FTP Pro to trans­fer files and […]

2006 05 22 Comments (1)

Woody to Sarge

Ive been intend­ing on upgrad­ing my Debian firewall/blog box to the latest ver­sion, called ‘sarge’ (a.k.a 3.1) for some months now. Today was the day I decided to finally bite the bul­let. Since I’ve been using back­ports of unstable ver­sions of soft­ware, such as MySQL (see Upgrad­ing MySQL on Debian for that pro­cess, and Enabling […]

2006 01 03 Technology Comments (3)