Tag Archives: Blog

WordPress 3.0 Multisite Terminology

By Dougal | Published: January 25, 2010

One of the big changes coming in WordPress 3.0 is the merge of the WordPress MU code into the standard stand-alone WordPress codebase. When WordPress 3.0 is released, you will be able to choose to install it either as a single site, or in multi-site mode. With the migration from WordPress MU (MultiUser) to WordPress 3.0 (Multisite), I think there is a need for us to clarify some terminology. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged alpha, blog network, network, network settings, site, versions, WordPress, wordpress 3.0, wordpress mu, wordpress multisite, wpmu | 41 Comments

Piratify Your Blog!

By Dougal | Published: September 12, 2006

There’s only one week left until Talk Like a Pirate Day! If you haven’t already downloaded my Text Filter Suite, which contains the awesome tfs-pirate filter, then you’d better hop to it! What’s that? You want to know what it does? It turns your blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! Well, it does some other stuff, too, but we’re mostly concerned with the piratey bits here.

For example, if you typed this:

I was driving to my girlfriend’s house the other day, and some guy cut me off and almost ran my car off the road! I hate when people do stupid things like that. [...]

Posted in Community, Holidays, Humor, Pirates, Plugins, TalkLikeAPirate, WordPress | Also tagged Culture | 30 Comments

SpamValve update

By Dougal | Published: May 6, 2005

I’ve been pretty busy at work, so I haven’t done much more work on my auto-firewall code in the past couple of days. But it seems to be holding its own pretty well. Normally, over the course of a few days, my comments database accumulates a couple thousand spams (I check it using Chris Davis’ Spam Nuke plugin). But since activating my new system, the spam comments are down to a trickle, maybe 10% of what it used to be.

This is because the system only allows a few attempts from any particular host before it blocks that host completely, eliminating any further attempts. [...]