A new service from the creators of the fantastic Wordpress is the Akismet comment spam system. Luckily I don’t suffer from that much spam, but I am trying this to see if it is much more effective than other techniques (and less intrusive than moderating every comment).
PS I also upgraded to WP two point oh, [...]
Posted on Thursday 5th January 2006 in Blog tagged internet, spam, website, WordPress, with no comments.
It seems like I change the theme on this site more often than I actually post content, but never mind.
This new theme is based on a picture I took last weekend of raindrops falling on the stones on the beach at Rosmarkie, near Inverness.
I know it looks a bit crap in IE, so I recommend [...]
Posted on Sunday 28th August 2005 in Blog tagged website, with no comments.
Partly as an excercise in trying to write a plugin for WordPress, and partly because I like the idea of having “posted 2 hours ago” on my blog but none of the existing plugins for WP did what I wanted, I have written this plugin.
The plugin consits of a single function, which returns the approximate [...]
Posted on Thursday 3rd March 2005 in Blog tagged hack, internet, website, with no comments.
I have now updated my site to WordPress version 1.5.
As WP now uses ‘Themes’ I decided to create a new look for the site, instead of recreating the previous site. I guess I could have used the previous look as it was, but I fancied a change anyway.
I think in part of the upgrade, I [...]
Posted on Sunday 27th February 2005 in Blog tagged internet, website, with no comments.
This has been updated again, see this post for details.
I have made some minor updates to the script that generates the Quicktags buttons in the WordPress post editor.
The default quicktags toolbar looks like this screenshot below, with 15 grey buttons:
I wanted a few extra functions, including: Heading 3 & 4; Quotation; small; big; superscript; and [...]
Posted on Saturday 15th January 2005 in Blog tagged hack, internet, website, with 16 comments.
