Now I have a number of self-hosted web sites, including this one. I have plenty of server space, and I develop websites for a living (amongst other things).
However, I am really taken with Posterous.
It’s so easy to build a blog with it.
There is nothing to do except email Posterous. You don’t even have to join [...]
I’ve seen much comment and discussion about the practice of summarizing RSS feeds.
The idea behind doing this, is to encourage those that take your feed to come to your blog. They get interested enough in reading the first two or three hundred words of your latest article, that they click on the ‘more’ link.
This gets [...]
When you set up a new blog, by default the table prefixes are wp_
If you have any other prefix for that blog, you frighten yourself when you import the SQL data, as it doesn’t work!
Quick fix to that… go into the wp-config file and look for the line with wp_ in, and change it to [...]
I recently upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5. Everything appears to be fine. However when I went to upgrade The Eye, I had a number of issues. One of them was that I couldn’t access the dashboard, when I clicked on site admin.
I could get around this by editing a post instead, which took me [...]
This plug-in works prety darn well to filter all the comment spam on your blog. When you first start a new blog you won’t get much, but rest assured the spammers find you faster than Google on speed, and then every darn post has a few dozen links for sites for you and your readers [...]
Also tagged askimet, blogs, creep, google, manhood, spam, spammers, urls, wench, wordpress, wordpress plug-insDo you have a self-hosted Wordpress blog like this one? Are you interested in finding out who visits your site, and who takes a RSS feed.
Of course you are! If you not, you’re a sorry ass, and you shouldn’t be blogging. Go away now, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
The rest of you [...]
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Now, many of you will be aware that this blog runs on Wordpress. Some of you will also be aware that I’m a bit of Wordpress plug-in junkie. Having said that some judicious use is required, as too many plug-ins will increase server response time – that means slow loading pages, particularly if your blog [...]
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