Subscribe to Comments Upgraded to 2.0.7.
Update: Oop. Subscribe to Comments 2.0.7 is broken. I’ve disabled the feature til I can get it working again.
Update: I rolled back to a previous version of Subscribe to Comments because WP 1.5 doesn’t support… I forget.. something or another. And I’m not upgrading to 2.0 for a while.
Dreamhost has been running kinda slow recently. So I took the time to figure out why my wp-cache wasn’t working. WP-Cache is a Wordpress plugin that caches database calls so that Wordpress runs way faster. Instead of it doing about 60 database queries to fetch all the blog info, it looks in the cache and if the page has already been created, it serves it as a flat text file.
It didn’t work correctly… The first time I’d go to a blog page, I would see a blank page. The second time it worked fine. I found some advice in a comment on the author’s website to fix this problem.
The advice is:
To fix the blank page issue modify wp_cache_ob_end() in wp-cache-phase2.php to use ob_end_flush() instead of ob_end_clean(). Works for a setup using PHP 5.1.2, MySQL 5.0.18, WP 2.01 and WP-Cache 2.0.17.
So I went to the wp-cache-phase2.php file and changed
ob_end_end();
if ($new_cache) {
…
to
ob_end_flush();
if ($new_cache) {
…
It works :-)
I’m running wp-cache 2.0.17 on Wordpress 1.5.2
I have been getting about 200 comment spams per day for a while now. Spam Karma has stopped 100% of them. 30,000 at last count. I get about 3 “please moderate this comment” notices from Spam Karma per week. So far, all of them have been spams as well.
Spam Karma is good. Thanks Dr Dave. I’ve already put money in his tip jar.
You’ll notice little icons next to each post showing what category it’s in. That’s due to Multi-Topic Icon.
"SebastianBassi" from Rentacoder.com and Bioinformatica.info just finished pulling some 400 old posts from my pre-Wordpress journal into Wordpress. I’ve now got 803 posts in WP. :-) It involved him doing a lot of manual file renaming, slight modification of HTML by hand and moving files around. It would have been a big bother for me. He did it for less than $200. I still had to do like 2 hours of review work and pointing out things he missed. But I'd recommend him.
I just gave another donation to Dr. Dave in the fight against comment spam.
I swapped out the photos in the upper right corner of the blog. I’ve had Burning Man 2005 photos up for a couple months. Now we’ve got photos mostly taken from the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day site.
Note that you can click on the photos to enlarge them.
I changed the color scheme of the last few months from that brash green to flat gray.
“Lee, you sure use a lot of plugins on your site. Could you give me a list of all of them?”
“Sure thing. I’ll give you the whole rundown..
(more…)
…is a very simple WordPress-plugin to remove rel=’nofollow’ (as proposed by Google) from links in comments in WP’s output.
This plugin checks the date of any comment and removes rel=’nofollow’ if the comment is older than a configurable number of days. This gives the site admin a chance to remove comment spam whithout the risk of Google following the links.
This will hopefully make hyperlinks in comments and on my site more relevant to search engines. It offers encouragement to legitimate commenters to post legitimate links on the site.
update 10-29-05: Nonofollow wasn’t working correctly all the time and I didn’t bother to figure out why so I’ve switched to a different nofollow plugin, DoFollow. I’ve tried it out and it works very well. Note that it is a filter plugin… it doesn’t alter the database like NoNoFollow (I believe) attempts to do. This is probably a good thing from a forward compatibility standpoint.
Now, when you do a search and pause for a second, the search bar will drop down some suggestions of what you might be looking for… things that are in my blog. This is derivative of Google’s (eerie but cool) Suggest site. This plugin comes from David Linsin. WP-Plugins.org
The blog has been running a little slow so I…. what should I do? Let’s see….
Install a plugin!
WP-Cache-2 stores blog pages for quick retrieval. It theoretically only takes 0.5 seconds or so off the creation time of the pages but (if my estimations are correct) it’s actually bringing load times from 5 seconds down to 2. Images take just as long to load but the text appears quicker. I’ll work on that.
update 9-28-05 This plugin isn’t compatible with my Theme Switcher. I’ll leave the Cache and dump the theme switcher.
Installed Adhesive Plugin. This lets me make posts “sticky”… staying as the first post in my blog, regardless as to when it was posted.
I know I’m addicted to Wordpress plugins. And that’s the first step in beating it.
So I can see what my adoring fans are searching for on my blog.
Spam Karma 1 beta 2 has been very good to me, only letting through a couple false negatives and almost no false positives. But it’s good to be pro-active about comment spam. Spam Karma works.
I just installed Spam Karma 2. First impression: The new Spam Karma has a lot of knobs and buttons! This is industrial grade stuff.
I even went all wacky and turned Pingbacks and Trackbacks on.
If your comment gets inappropriately eaten by SK or you’re having any trouble, ping me.
I installed the Subscribe2 plugin by Scott Merrill. It lets viewers subscribe to an email version of my blog. You can probably see a link to it in the sidebar. Or here.
Enhanced Post List by Brian “ColdForged” Dupuis is similar to “Paged Comment Editing”.
It’s a good thing
Paged Comment Editing by Brian “ColdForged” Dupuis is a very useful gem for sifting through comment spam.
In my attempt to become the most plugin-ed person in the Wordpress universe, I’ve installed Ryan Boren’s Theme Switcher. You can see on the sidebar that you can now choose which theme you want to view my blog with.
I’m only up to 12 active plugins so I think I’ve got a ways to go. You can find mention of all the plugins I’m using in the Wordpress category. Searching for the word “Installed” is also a good bet.
Joy.
update 9-28-05 Because it’s not compatible with WP-Cache-2, I’ve uninstalled Theme Switcher. :-(
If I ever reinstall it, the command to run Theme Switcher is:
<?php wp_theme_switcher(’dropdown’); ?>
