Category: wordpress

Securing my witterings: Cloudflare Universal SSL and WordPress

Ok, a bit unfair – my mind has clearly been infected by skimming one too many clickbait headlines: I am sorry. I use CloudFlare for most of my…

WordPress, lighttpd and HTTP 500 errors

So this has been driving me potty, but thanks to this bug report and lots of checkbox clicking it turns out that the Google Sitemap plugin v2.7 from…

new theme for mobile viewers

I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need…

blog upgrade

Crikey. That was a bit of work – moving from WordPress 1.2 with a huge number of hacks into the latest-and-greatest version, but even though it was pretty…

ah, so that’s what they do next, then

Ok, commenting is effectively disabled, so this morning there are 15 trackback spam links… Just in case anyone wondered what ‘they’ do next, and yes, for the moment…

saved by javascript – what a turn up…

Given that I have always tried as hard as I can to make browsing my site (in all its incarnations) as similar as possible in both the latest…

blocking odd ‘comment only’ posts

For some reason, visitors to this site seem to love clicking on one or more smiley faces and then sending it as a comment. I’ve no idea why,…

comment moderation feedback

Comment moderation is handy, but it’s annoying from a non-spammers point of view when it appears that the submission has simply vanished. My solution is to add an…