Category: WordPress
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Universal (Intel Mac) version of Ecto available
Boy I love blogging from my Mac, and specifically with the reasonably priced program Ecto, MUCH better than I like using the web-interface for WordPress on a Windows XP computer. I’m now using Windows-based computers much more than I have in the past few years because of my job, but thankfully I’m still able to…
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Eyes Right blog launched
I’m pleased to announce this evening after many weeks (if not months) of thought and planning, I have launched a new team blogging effort I’m quite enthused about. “Eyes Right: A Team Blog About The Christian Journey of Faith” is now online, and I’ll be posting my thoughts related to Christianity, faith, and religion over…
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Spam Karma to the rescue (again)
I detest spam of all flavors, but especially the virtual kind. Thankfully the email programs I’ve been using, and the server-based spam filtering solutions utilized by those maintaining the email servers I’ve used of late, have proven very effective in almost entirely eliminating spam from my inbox. With the recent upgrade of my blog to…
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Site migration and WordPress upgrade complete
Whew! I am quite relieved at last to have completed the site migration required by my blog web host (POWWEB) which was recently purchased by a new company. The servers used by POWWEB customers are changing, and while this change should be transparent to web visitors, it proved to be a pain as well as…
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Latest Ecto fixes problems
The latest version of Ecto for Windows (2.1.7) seems to have resolved the post refresh issues I mentioned yesterday. Thanks to Alex Hung for this info. If you’re not familiar with it, Ecto is an excellent offline blogging tool that I’ve been using for over a year now– When asked how in the world I…
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Pros and Cons of Educational Blogging Options (A skypecast invitation!)
I’ve setup another skypecast for this Tuesday, July 11th at 8 pm US central time called, “Pros and Cons of Educational Blogging Options.” (Use the previous link to actually join the Skypecast when it starts– you might bookmark/favorite that page so you can easily return to it later.) The idea for this Skypecast was inspired…
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Analyzing blog access statistics
Big surprise today as I look at my Feedburner reported blog statistics: Overnight the number of reported subscribers has jumped from about 300 total to over 50,000 in one day. For some reason, the Netvibes aggregator seems to be severely skewing my reported blog subscriber numbers. Something fishy is going on….. This next graphic shows…
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Enhanced podcasts and bandwidth
Well, I take this as a mixed message. I received the following email from the .Mac account administrators today: This means several things: My published enhanced podcasts (most recently by Dr. David Berliner) must be fairly popular. (The mp3 version is not hosted by .Mac and is still available.) Folks wanting to download that enhanced…
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Advice to curb wordpress spam?
Does anyone have a favorite, free plug-in for WordPress that you’re using to block automated spam comments? The quantity of spam comments to my blog has been skyrocketing. Spam Karma 2 is doing a great job filtering it out, but I’d like to stop it from being posted at all. To do this I need…
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Blog spam attacks
Good grief. I am not sure what is going on, but in the last week I have received more blog comment spam messages than I have in the cumulative lifetime of my blog– over 300 separate blog comment spams. [sigh] Thankfully the free WordPress plug-in Spam Karma 2 has continued to keep things pretty clean…