Running on WordPress!

August 15, 2005 at 6:31 am

I’ve decided to try out the real deal — a ‘proper’ weblogging platform, namely WordPress. Be sure to comment if you spot problems…

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  1. Kae Verens said,

    August 15, 2005 @ 11:24 am

    Cool stuff. I’ve had very few problems with Wordpress.

    The two problems that I notice the most are: 1. wordpress gets overzealous with the addslashes() at times 2. comments that have code in them tend to get snipped after left-pointy-bracket characters

  2. Kae Verens said,

    August 15, 2005 @ 11:24 am

    oh – you’d better turn moderation on – otherwise, you’ll get a shit-load of spambots tramping their way through here.

  3. Conor said,

    August 15, 2005 @ 8:26 pm

    I am in shock, it looks very pretty!

  4. Administrator said,

    August 15, 2005 @ 9:24 pm

    thanks for the feedback guys! yep, there are definitely a few things I need to do I think…

  5. Michele said,

    August 15, 2005 @ 9:59 pm

    Justin

    Congrats on the new look!

    As for spambots etc., there are a number of plugins you can use with WP to block them. A couple of them use DNSBLs to check the IPs, whereas others go based on the UA.

    Michele

  6. Chris said,

    August 21, 2005 @ 5:46 pm

    I’m shocked too J. I never thought I’d see the day when you jumped ship to a blogtool.

    You’ll love SpamKarma, there is something very SA about it ;) http://www.unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma

    For a start you could give your admin user a nickname ;)

  7. Justin said,

    August 22, 2005 @ 10:27 pm

    actually, I’m going to give a CAPTCHA a try; imo they’re pretty suitable for blog comment anti-spam.

  8. Justin said,

    August 22, 2005 @ 10:35 pm

    testing again.

  9. Justin said,

    August 22, 2005 @ 10:36 pm

    Sweet, that works, and isn’t too intrusive. Let’s see how it goes.

  10. Justin said,

    September 20, 2005 @ 11:16 pm

    quick post-upgrade test…

  11. conall said,

    September 26, 2005 @ 3:10 am

    I’ve just decided to disable WP comment moderation after encountering wp-spamassassin, a WordPress plugin which is effectively a PHP version of spamc.

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    October 12, 2005 @ 9:23 am

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  13. Larry Ayers said,

    October 12, 2005 @ 10:25 am

    Hi, Justin! Never heard of you until Matt mentioned that you were now using WP! Nice site, I’ll be back.

    I’ve been using WP since last February. It’s an empowering piece of software indeed!

  14. Justin said,

    October 29, 2005 @ 11:44 pm

    just testing a comment preview thingy…

  15. Justin said,

    October 29, 2005 @ 11:45 pm

    another test

  16. Justin said,

    October 30, 2005 @ 12:05 am

    testing!

  17. Justin said,

    October 30, 2005 @ 12:05 am

    ok, seems to be working now with both the moronic test, and comment previews. I’ll stop fiddling before I break it again ;)

  18. Sam Deeks said,

    June 24, 2008 @ 9:20 am

    OOoooo – can I make Captcha do the same thing? If so how? Thanks (I’m desperate to stop those thousands of spam comments!) :-)

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