LMB^Box: Blog

Today after getting MORE spam that got through Bad Behavior 2.0.2, I decided to get my API Key for Akismet and activate the plugin. I created a WordPress.com account and blog a long time ago, but never used it. So I’ve just deleted my blog there but my account still remains with my API Key! The first thing Akismet did (well not the first thing) was to show me on my Manage page that I had 2300+ comments MARKED as spam. WHAT!? I thought I had deleted all the spam comment! I guess not, marking a comment as spam saves the comment in the database but just marks it as spam and doesn’t display it. So Akismet showed me all of them and offered to delete them for me. Why should I argue with that , Delete All please … click … all gone, YAY! Do you want to know what that did for my database? Sure you do … my wp_comments table was at ~4.2MB BEFORE I deleted all the comments marked as spam … now it’s at a nice 255.2KB! HOLY SH*T, talk about taking out the trash! That alone makes me happy that I finally did activate Akismet!

I’ve just finished upgrading my WordPress install from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4. Everything’s looking good and I’m trying out the WP Tiger Admin Theme. Something that I noticed during this upgrade, when you go to write/edit a Page, you don’t have the option to choose the Page’s Template File like WordPress version 1.5. This maybe a bug with the option left out of the AJAX code.

On another note, I’ve completely moved servers to DreamHost now. I’ve started to learn to use their Control Panel and things are moving more smoothly now. I’ve got many projects / ideas that I need to work on, so I’m going to have to put some updates on hold for the time being. I hope to have some new things poping up soon.

I’ve done it again! I’ve moved from another web hosting to a new server. I just could not pass this up! One year of hosting for only $10, well actually $9 and some change. I’m now with DreamHost and so far it’s looking good. I’ve had to play around with their control panel, but that hasn’t been too hard. It’s just amazing that I get shell access and unlimited domains hosted! It’s late so I’ll updated on more of the news in the morning …

A while ago, I had signed up to Beta test Ether and I never got around to publish my service. So I just added a button to my Contact Me Page so that you can call/email me for Tech Support. If you view my Ether listing you will see what exactly I can help with. It is a pay service and the rate is $10 for 30 minutes.

Today I’ve been working on fixing a few things that were funky with this new theme. For some reason the theme didn’t have comments enabled for Pages, so I’ve taken care of that. Also the comments section has been modifed from the theme’s original. Basicly I’ve moved all the Trackbacks / Pingbacks to below the Comment Form Area. I still want to modify how all the dates are formed though.

I have setup and enabled Text Link Ads on this site. Once ad space is bought, they will be displayed along the left hand side of the pages. This looks like a really good thing and I’m enjoying the system right now. Let’s just see how well they work!