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Twitterings

12/13/2007 – 6:04 pm

You might have already noticed, but I finally hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon. You can see my latest tweets in the sidebar (it’s the “What I’m Doing” section), and I currently have it auto-posting a daily summary here on the blog (courtesy of the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Community, Plugins, Services, WordPress | Also tagged alexking, plugin, Plugins, RSS, SocialNetworks, tweets, twitter, twittertools | Comments (26)

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-10

12/10/2007 – 11:59 pm

Watching the baby while my wife is at a job interview. #
Finally made to the the office a little while ago. Had to drop my car off at the dealership for "Check Engine" diagnosis. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Whatever | Also tagged .net, PHP, SOAP | Comments (0)

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

11/16/2007 – 11:26 am

My Easy Gravatars plugin is now in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ve released version 1.1.

Changes:

Gravatar images now link to comment author’s URL, if provided.
Gravatar code now prepended to text instead of appended.
Added stylesheet for options page and improved layout. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, avatars, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, plugin, Plugins, Releases, update | Comments (46)

Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics Plugin

11/9/2007 – 9:56 am

Several people have reported problems using my Easy Gravatars plugin together with Joost de Valk’s Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged analytics, avatar, avatars, bugfix, easy-gravatars, Google, gravatar, gravatars, icons, patch, plugin, Plugins, SEO | Comments (6)

Creating a secure WordPress install

10/30/2007 – 5:23 pm

Over on BlogSecurity, there’s a whitepaper on How to create a secure WordPress install. It covers several areas, including MySQL setup, WordPress user configuration, Apache protection of directories, and some useful plugins. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Security, WordPress | Also tagged access, Apache, hacking, hardening, ids, MySQL, plugin, Plugins, Security | Comments (25)

Easy Gravatars Plugin

10/24/2007 – 6:33 pm

Since so many people seemed to be interested, I went ahead and coded up my new Gravatars plugin: Easy Gravatars. It’s designed to be simple to use — just upload and activate. If you want it to be a little harder, you can visit the plugin’s options page to set the size and rating for the gravatars, and even set the location of a default image, and tweak the CSS a little bit.

Download: easygravatars.zip

I’m going to put it in the WordPress Plugin Repository when I get a chance. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, avatars, CSS, gravatar, gravatars, images, personalization, plugin, Plugins | Comments (114)

Gravatars

10/22/2007 – 2:42 pm

Even before the recent announcement about Gravatar joining Automattic, I had been wanting to turn on comment avatars here. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, WordPress | Also tagged avatar, avatars, Community, Graphics, gravatar, gravatars, personalization, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Services, webservice | Comments (38)

New theme, same as the old theme

10/16/2007 – 3:45 pm

I’ve done some minor maintenance around here. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. What I’ve done is upgraded my old Sandbox 0.6.1 theme to the new 1.0 version, and made a few minor adjustments to my CSS to account for the differences. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Semantics, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged categories, CSS, delicious, Flickr, Metadata, Sandbox, SemanticWeb, tagging, Tags | Comments (11)

glTail: Realtime Logfile Visualization

10/11/2007 – 3:50 pm

This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.

A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Open Source, Ruby, Servers, WordPress | Also tagged Apache, Graphics, logs, monitoring, Ruby, Servers, Spam, sysadmin, tools, visualization | Comments (4)

Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

9/22/2007 – 11:15 am

Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. [...]