Just a reminder, my current circumstances do not afford me the time I need to write, nor the Internet access I need to collect material and post. I hope that will change, soon, but for now it’s out of my hands.
Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category
Wordpress Update Completed: 2.8.4
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Wow, that was fast. I’ll be checking things out for a bit, making sure everything works OK.
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WordPress Update
Sunday, October 4th, 2009I am updating WordPress. Occasionally, this has caused trouble in the past. We’ll see how it goes this time.
Please stand by….
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Homework
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Venom Lash, I’ve suspended your commenting privileges until you answer my questions on gun control to my satisfaction. Hereafter, except for comments on “76 Reasons“, any additional comments will be deleted unread.
As I’ve said a couple of times, you don’t have to admit defeat and agree with me, but if not, you must back up your assertions with properly cited facts.
Some of your most recent comments have been unapproved (placed back in the moderation queue) and will be held until I’m satisfied, at which time they’ll reappear (assuming WordPress cooperates).
If I have to impose registration or moderation to enforce this, I will, but you will get no points with me for inconveniencing my friends and other guests.
[Edited for clarity.]
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Mandatory Sporadic
Saturday, September 5th, 2009I’ll only be able to post sporadically for the next month or two, possibly only on weekends.
I apologize to all those who can no more start their day without my golden words than they could without coffee.
There’s nothing like a good hot pot of coffee to get you going in the morning. Sure, I’ve tried other enemas….
— Emo Phillips
From the If Anybody Really Cares Department:
WordPress sometimes counts more comments than I can see posted. On the other hand, when I make a comment on such a post, it doesn’t always bump the counter. I’ll investigate when I have time. For now, if you’ve commented and I haven’t replied, I may not have seen your post, or I may have replied but the count didn’t bump.
I’d very much appreciate if readers would tell me if they’ve noticed this happening, or if you’ve tried to comment, but your comment has not appeared.
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Foot-Shooting
Thursday, November 6th, 2008I’ve picked up a couple of links from a blog-scrapper, an automated site that collects links to articles that might be of interest to a given audience. This particular scrapper apparently panders to Dems and other leftie wreckers, because it’s linking So Proud, on Barry Hussein’s exceptionalism; and Obama’s Disciples, on the kind, tolerant, well-meaning folk who just chose our next President.
I hope I get a lot of traffic from those links, but I expect not. Mostly, scrappers exist to artificially inflate linkage numbers so they can charge their advertisers more. I’m leaving these two up for amusement, and the off chance that some of the Hopeful will come here and be outraged in comments,but any more links from these assholes will be deleted.
Wordpress: Update to 2.6.2, no, scuse, 2.6.1
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I’m updating even though the security problem is a very low risk.
I’m updating to 2.6.1, which has over sixty fixes, but not 2.6.2, which has only a few low-priority fixes, and isn’t yet included in Fantastico.
WP 2.7, with what looks like a greatly improved Dashboard, is in the works. I’m looking forward to that, although it seems to be quite a ways out.
If problems occur, I’ll revert, having just run the (updated to 2.2.1) Wordpress Database Backup plugin. (Which, by the way, works very nicely.)
Anyway, Here. We. Go!
(As part of this process, I’m disabling all plugins, so things might be a bit wonky for a moment. Stand by.)
Okay.
Seems to have gone pretty well.
Carry on.
Tags: WordPress, Wordpress 2.6.1, Wordpress 2.6.2
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Ricketyclick: User Registrations from Poland
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Awhile back, I started to get users from the .pl (Poland) domain registering en masse, three to five a day. None of them ever commented. It is not necessary to register to make a comment here, or to view the blog. To find out what was going on, I turned on the WordPress feature requiring registrations to be approved by me, and for awhile, I emailed the would-be registrants, asking them to confirm that they were real people, and to explain why they wanted to registered.
After a couple of dozen requests, nobody had ever replied, and I just let the requests pile up.
I have no idea why this is happening, what benefit those registrations could confer. I can’t even figure out what cost it might impose on me.
Just to be safe, though, I’m not approving those registrations, and I’ve deleted all of the registered .PL users with no posts (which is all of them).
If you know what this is about, or if you are from Poland and wish to register, or if you were previously registered but are not registered now, please add a comment to this post. I don’t want to restrict anyone with anything to contribute — but I don’t want to be taken advantage of, either, even if I don’t understand how it might be done.
Tags: PL TLD, Poland, user registration
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Ricketyclick: Comment Editing
Thursday, July 31st, 2008I’ve added the WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin, which will allow you folks to edit your comments for several minutes after posting. (I, personally, hate having to blindly post comments, only to find that I’ve made some horible speeling misteaks.)
Ajax, the technology platform underlying the plugin, does not work for all browsers. If you are using something other than Internet Explorer 5+ for Windows, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+, Safari 1.2+, or Opera 7.6+, please let know, via email if necessary, that this plugin is getting in your way.
OK, seems to work. There will be a few minutes while I play around with the options….
The original comment form is unchanged, so the comment entry form does not allow you to actually preview. Hm. I kinda don’t like that, and there doesn’t seem to be an option to turn that on.
However, once you post your comment, you have fifteen minutes to edit it. I may adjust this if experience shows you need more time.
Tags: plugins, WordPress, WP Ajax Edit Comments
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Ricketyclick: Comment Preview and JavaScript
Thursday, July 31st, 2008As noted in the previous post, I’ve installed the “Ajax Edit Comment” plugin, but I was not happy with it, because it did not provide a preview capability.
This post announces the installation of the Ajax Comment Preview plugin. Again, this depends on Ajax technology, which may not work with all browsers.
The great advantage this plugin provides is that the preview is filtered through the Wordpress display engine, so that your preview should look exactly as it will appear when it is posted.
Testing another feature: Show ▼
Wow, I was mistaken. I did not have JavaScript turned off in Firefox. It’s turned off now, and although you can still post a comment, you cannot preview it or edit it after posting. I’m going to have to think about this. Not running JS breaks other stuff in the Wordpress posting editor as well.
The Spoiler plugin I’m using (which protects text with Show/Hide tags) doesn’t work with JavaScript off, and it is not graceful about it, either: spoilers are invisible. I’d prefer a failure mode where spoilers show if JS is not present.
Somehow, I doubt that any editing or spoiler plugin will work without JS.
On the other hand, the spellchecker I’m using in Firefox does work with no JS.
OK, I’ve turned my JS back on. I’m keeping the current plugins, because turning off JS breaks so many things, I think most people will have it on.
Tags: Ajax, Ajax Comment Preview, JavaScript, Word Press
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