I always neglect my personal site when working on other consuming side-projects. Lately I’ve been hanging out at the wordpress support forums, because my latest project involves wordpress. When I go there to search for answers, I invariably spend a minute and answer a couple of recent threads.
The mood of my reply to those threads [...]
I’ve been working with wordpress a lot lately though there’s no real evidence of it on this site, unfortunately. Nevertheless it’s resulted in a few little ‘tweaks’ which I think may warrant their own little section here. I’ll think about that as keep collecting them.
In the mean time, I want to post something which I’m [...]
This site used to bear the tagline “a website you don’t visit, by a man you don’t know”.
That’s as true today as it was back then, but unfortunately it doesn’t apply to spammers. I’ve just broken 10,000 spam messages since the re-launch of this site on the 31st of August 2007. That means that less than [...]
Traditionally, wordpress does not allow you to use multiple domains on your site. It will always redirect them to the URL you have specified in your options. Generally speaking, that’s exactly the right way to go about it unless you have an advanced purpose in mind.
Why would you want this?
Well, if you have multiple domains [...]
I found this in my spam box and laughed so hard I almost choked on my coffee.
Like mankind itself, spam has become depressive and self-loathing. Just like us, it’s now apologising for its existance (links removed, of course):
Hello, Your site is perfect, sorry for my post home insurance car insurance health insurance sorry one more [...]
I wrote a little code snippit the other day to warn readers about posts further down the page, which may not be safe to have on your screen at work. This was a really simple exercise, but it really bugged me that this short warning message always began with a digit. To me, that just [...]
I posted the following appeal to the wordpress support forums, but I’ve decided to post it here too, to allow discussion in case casual passers-by or potential plugin authors wanted to have a place to throw down their comments.
I’m assuming the fine moderators at the wordpress forums will not allow the topic to stay open [...]
Despite striking some trouble with implementation, I’ve begun uploading photos.
My main issues involved new ways to navigate posts including thumbnail-based navigation of pictures, and making that seem a bit more intuitive and relevant to picture browsing, rather than reading posts. I installed a fresh copy of wordpress to test on, but the posts and category [...]
I haven’t written a post in quite some time, and I’m really feeling like I have a few pent-up things to post about, but I’ve been so tired lately that every time I start to write, the process of forming a cohesive post on a difficult subject just seems like too much effort.
So, I’ve decided [...]
There’s kind of a cool blogging initiative happening this month called NaBloPoMo, which is short for National Blog Posting Month. The basic idea is to join in and ensure you post once per day for the month of November.
There’s a promotional site and the whole kit, which encourages passers by and other NaBloPoMo participants to [...]
I’m a big fan of interoperability, but there’s a point at which your investment in a particular vision or statement starts to suffer. I’m slowly doing all the things I want to, to this site, but there’s one thing I’ll never be able to achieve efficiently, and I have to admit it bugs me!
If you [...]
The concept of a central storepoint for avatars you can use everywhere you post, is a brilliant one. Gravatar is one of a handful of services which allow you to do exactly that. If site administrators choose to insert a small amount of code to facilitate the use of people’s gravatars, users can quickly and [...]
If you run your own blog, as opposed to using one of those marvelous cluster-fucks like Blogger, then you know the joy of clearing spam posts intimately.
You can make it more difficult to comment on your blog by introducing an image verification system… You can keep checking your spam bin to see whether any legitimate posts are being caught… [...]
I know I keep complaining that what passes for news here is a steaming pile of bullshit intended to waste our time, and I realise that I might be getting a bit boring about it… sometimes I’m even tempted to bow to the ever-present pressure to stop moaning about it, but that’s exactly what those who wish to obfuscate [...]
For whatever reason, it is easy to get into a state where you feel like you’ve had enough, and even easier to then tear down what you’ve built. However, the thought of changing your mind and putting it all back together again is enough to put you off the task forever.
Reconstructing this blog is such [...]
I’m a tech-head, so I love upgrades particularly when they bring useful features. For this reason, I’m taking a minute to upgrade to WordPress 2.3. I can’t say whether I’ll be able to upgrade any further though, since I’m about to embark on some customisation here at ivovic.net.
Personal blogs are all about self-expression, so it’s [...]
