Again. Since moving over from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, my blog has been broken numerous times. Two or three occasions were down to a plugin being hacked. It was almost certainly hacked just the once, but it took more than one go at reinstating the blog to fix the problem. On another two or three occasions, the … Continue reading I Broke My Blog
Blogging is an interesting hobby. A bit narcisstic at times, I guess. There are minor irritants though. Spam being one of them. It is a very minor irritant. Barely irritating at all, thanks to Akismet, WordPress's spam filter. Although every now and then Akismet goes haywire and lets a few through. That's why a new … Continue reading Fascinating Spam Scam
There's a ton of options when choosing a blogging platform. Only two of them are serious options as far as I'm concerned - WordPress.com and Blogger. All the others have issues which render them, for the time being, as non starters. I currently use WordPress.com. But I am pondering a move back to Blogger, which … Continue reading WordPress to Blogger
Seeing as I had sold two of my photos hosted on Flickr, and sold a web site since my return to the UK, and seeing as I've only had a 16 hour a week job for the last month, I got all creative and designed me a website of my own. Using WordPress, a fancy … Continue reading WordPress Plus
I pondered and pondered some more. Meh. I'll stick with WordPress.com. I really shouldn't be spending any more money or time tinkering with a new blogging platform. My problem is an affliction of interweb curiosity, and it can be expensive. I'll just have to give this bout of curiosity a dose of cold turkey. I … Continue reading Digital Ditherings
I've been pondering the idea of switching from WordPress.com to a self hosted WordPress.org blog for a while. But more so lately. There are some obvious pros to doing this, from my point of view anyway. Get rid of .com's Google Ads Put my own ads on to make a little money The ability to … Continue reading The Org Switch
For years I've been recommending, sometimes pleading, with Blogger bloggers to install the Disqus commenting system on their blogs. Blogger's commenting set ups suck. Really, really suck. It does work a lot of the time, I guess. But then chemotherapy works a lot of the time. It's not something you'd go for if there was … Continue reading Comments, Stats and Lies
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