blogging

retiring a wordpress blog

I wanted to retire a WordPress-based site, converting everything to static HTML. My first idea was to mirror the site with wget (or any other web downloader)...
October 19, 2010

subscribe to comments

Wordpress plugin ``Subscribe to Comments 2.1'' allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. I think it improves usabi...
January 16, 2008

russian (any) language in wordpress

I tried to setup a new wordpress blog. To my unpleasant surprise, I got a problem with cyrillic letters. They just didn't work, being displayed as junk or as...
November 25, 2007

casting WPAds to a widget

Some time ago I discovered that the WordPress blog sidebar can be * completely dynamic and * configured through the admin interface. It's very convenient, an...
September 28, 2007

invent categories and tags easily

My antispam blog passed 25+ posts, it was enough introduce the categories. But when I started to categorize the posts, I stuck with it. After inventing four ...
September 26, 2007

an evil jump to the Google’s first page

For my goals, the query "phpbb spam" should return Textual Confirmation and Links Rejector tools on the first page. No luck so far, but I managed a nice tric...
August 19, 2007

putting advertisement blocks on a blog

Earlier, my AdSense ads were hardcoded into my WP template files. But now I want to experiment with other ads. I need to rotate the ads often, and the old so...
August 18, 2007

downloading log files

The best place to analyze log files is the local computer, not the server: 1) Log files grow fast, taking all the server space 2) Queries might be CPU-intens...
August 16, 2007

tracking site visitors

There might be a delay between the first visit and the desired action (subscirbing to RSS, purchasing software, etc). An usual web site log often isn't enoug...
August 13, 2007

web site statistics is a myth

There is a lot of software to display statistics of a web site. But all that tables and graphics are of no use for me. I just don't know what to do with this...
August 13, 2007

towards monetarization

I've decided to get money from my sites. No, I don't desperately need money. Actually, what I want to fix is the following. I see that my resources can bring...
August 09, 2007

using curl to make trackbacks

From "Poor Man's Trackback": $ curl -d url=[my entry's URL] [trackback URL] You can also specify the title, excerpt, and blog_name using additional -d parame...
July 30, 2007

better way to add a plugin

Installation instructions of many WordPress plugin contains recommendation to add something like this to a theme: <?php tla_ads(); ?> Actually, the Ri...
July 25, 2007

How to stop WordPress spam

My blog is protected by Advanced Textual Confirmation. * No more spam. * No complains from the visitors. ATC is a generic tool, suitable for any PHP script....
March 19, 2007

wordpress 2.1

I've upgraded wordpress to the version 2.1. It wasn't very easy because the authors have broken incompatibility with older versions, therefore my tweaked the...
February 01, 2007

publishing code in WordPress

WordPress blog engine automatically adds typography to postings. For example, it changes two dashes to the long dash, changes the usual quotes to different s...
June 02, 2006

wordpress and html meta keywords

WordPress, the current blogging system I use, doesn't support keywords for pages. Although search engines now don't believe in them, I still like to have the...
May 01, 2005

blog was down

Yesterday evening, trying to write the previous post, I found that my blog isn't working. It's the third computer failire in the last days (here are the firs...
March 22, 2005

testing quotes

WordPress (this blog engine) changes quotes (") to (\"). Let see if php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off php_flag magic_quotes_runtime off have fixed the problem....
March 09, 2005