Since re-enabling comments, I’ve received several spam posts. There are tools available that can screen and nuke spam comments, but since basically no one reads or comments on this blog anyways, it’s not really worth my time. So, bye bye comments.
I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.1.3. (Read about my last major upgrade, to 2.0.1, here.) The visual editor appears much improved, so I’m going to play with that for a while.
I’ve also re-enabled comments for the time being. We’ll see what the spam situation looks like in a few days or weeks.
After receiving a barrage of comment spam over the weekend (some of it addressed to Jane, as in “Nice site Jane!”), I have disabled open commenting. One must now be logged in as a subscriber to comment. Conveniently, no one is allowed to register as a subscriber. Problem solved.
If any of my two or three [...]
Recently I have been deluged with comment spam in which the spammer first praises my humble website, and then inserts links to various fraudulent and bogus addresses. A typical example (links removed):
Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!
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I have just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.1. The upgrade has overwritten some of the custom tweaks I added to my previous installation, so you may notice some minor differences (date format, etc). I plan on re-tweaking the .php files again, so things should return to normal soon.
The upgrade was performed with DreamHost’s Web [...]
I’ve noticed that when I place an em-dash in a post, which is typically represented by two hyphens on the keyboard, WordPress substitutes a single hyphen.
Example:
thought one–thought 2
results in:
thought one–thought 2
But if I add spaces around the –, I get what I want:
thought one — thought 2
results in:
thought one — thought 2
That is a correct [...]