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My Favorite WordPress Plugins

3/13/2007 – 11:55 am

One of the coolest things about WordPress is the powerful Plugin API which allows us to create add-ons which can radically extend the basic functions of our sites. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Spam, WordPress | Comments (34)

Reinvigorated

2/7/2007 – 1:46 pm

Reinvigorate’s Hourly Stats

About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote about how the Reinvigorate web stats service was entering a private beta, and I hoped to get a chance to try it out. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Services, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Google, Sandbox, Statistics, Web | Comments (15)

Okay, I think things are finally (more-or-less) back in shape around here. Sorry about the problems you might encountered here over the past few days. I finally upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1, but I encountered some problems along the way. The problems were really indirectly related to the upgrade, and turned out to be my own dumb fault.

On Friday, I decided to use my lunch hour to perform the upgrade. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Plugins, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged Amazon, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Sandbox, Spam, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (8)

Upgrade Imminent

1/30/2007 – 12:22 am

I’ve spent some time converting my Rockem Sockem theme to a Sandbox skin, and getting my Now Playing hack converted into a sidebar widget. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, Sandbox, Upgrades | Comments (2)

Site Problems

1/23/2007 – 11:54 am

Over the last few days, it’s possible that you might have tried to visit this site and gotten a blank page. It’s not you, it’s me. Or more precisely, it’s my server, and my attempts to eek a little more performance out of it.

The problem seems to come from APC (Alternative PHP Cache). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Servers, Software, Tech | Also tagged Performance, PHP, Web | Comments (0)

Some blog spam cases you might want to watch for

10/27/2006 – 12:45 pm

I like to think that I’ve got some pretty decent spam prevention measure in place on my server. My mail server uses RBL/DNSBL services and sets maximum limits for certain protocol violations. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, commentspam, Email, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Spam, SpamValve, WordPress | Comments (9)

Syndactyly (Webbed Toes/Fingers) Forums

10/20/2006 – 12:11 am

A few years ago, I made a post that mentioned in passing that I have webbed toes. About a month later, my logs started showing up a fair number of referals from search engines from people looking for info about webbed toes. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Also tagged Amazon, bbPress, Syndactyly, Web | Comments (4)

Knock, knock…

6/28/2006 – 11:41 am

I know, I know… I haven’t been very active on the blogging front lately. Once again I’ve been sucked into a swirling vortex of job and home projects, with little-to-no time for participating in blogdom. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the latest memes, and I’ve added a few new del.icio.us bookmarks, but there’s been no opportunity to develop any nifty code or write about the subject of the day.

I’ve got eight draft posts in my queue, and three of those are no longer timely, and so I’ll probably end up deleting them. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Family, Holidays, Personal, WordPress, Work | Also tagged dom, Perl, plugin, Plugins, Web, WordPress | Comments (3)

No more automatic link posting

4/10/2006 – 10:01 am

And now that I’ve helped out the rest of you who want to automatically generate posts from your del.icio.us bookmarks (with my daily post fixer plugin), I’m turning that feature off here. [...]