Domain Move

 Website Updates, Wordpress  No Responses »
Jun 242008
 

I have moved the blog from my domain brokendream.net/wordpress to codemonkies.co.nz/linux .

Codemonkies.co.nz is a project my friend and I came up with, and so far I have been greatly lacking towards it so I thought moving the blog here was a better start, plus the domain is cool! Further, if I can create a good looking WordPress theme as planned, there would be no reason not to transfer it to the whole codemonkies webpage.

I also plan on making this a mostly linux and technical focused blog, so it fits closer with the cm (codemonkies) domain name. This also requires a name change, but am still thinking over different ideas so it may change a few times.

The next thing I need to do is an apache mod_rewrite to pass all of the brokendream.net/wordpress/* addresses to cm.co.nz/linux/ which shouldn’t be too hard, and will preserve all, even while minimal, search traffic to the blog.

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WordPress Spam Management

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May 042008
 

After upgrading WordPress to the latest version 2.5, I started recieving 5-6 emails a day about spam comments waiting in my moderation queue, untagged by akismet. I fixed a problem where the akismet key was not validating but the spam notifications continued, I concidered disabling the email notification but that left me having to manually sort the spam. So I started to look around for additional plugins I could use to help stop the influx, and I came apon Hashcash. Hashcash uses JavaScript to verify that the comment poster is using a browser to post instead of a custom written spam bot that would be unable to process the JavaScript. If the javascript hash fails then the message is passed to Akismet to check for spam, which solved my problem of comments not being tagged as spam, and then either tagged as such, or left in the moderation queue.

Thankfully I no longer have multiple notification emails as spam rolled in, and the setup will still allow people to post comments, even if they have JavaScript disabled as long as it passes the akismet spam check.

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Update hell

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May 132005
 

While its nice to have your webapplications all nice snug and secure it can get annoying when you have to continually install upgrades! I’m sure it can’t be much more than a week after I removed my old blog and installed 1.5 they have gone and released 1.5.1! Such is life eh?

I’ve gone and installed Gallery which is great, after being so disheartened about PHPGallery I thought there would be no decent software, but after a small search I found Gallery. Its better than I thought it would be, now I just have to take more pictures!

I’ve also installed MediaWiki which is greatly different from phpWiki, which I found easy to use definatly doesn’t have the professional style of MediaWiki. Hopefully after a bit of learning MediaWiki will be easy to use.

I also plan on moving everything from the old wikis to this new one when I get around to it. :>

 Posted by at 12:49 am

StatTraq

 Website Updates  2 Responses »
May 012005
 

I have installed StatTraq, a statistical package for wordpress, and it looks pretty neat so far, now I just need people to visit to count the stats of x) Hopefully with more posting/updates and all that rot it will be sweet.

Too tired to make a general post, hopefully will tommorow!

 Posted by at 1:32 am
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