justDIY Project Log

I’ve upgraded to WP 2.05, luckily, nothing went wrong!

Also, comments are enabled again, testing some new spam countermeasures … lets see how it goes!

Due to a huge influx of spam in my comment moderation queue, I have disabled comment posting for the time being.

Once I get educated on combating wordpress comment spam, I’ll turn them back on, until then, feel free to email me your comments, and I will post them on a comments page or something.

Some time has passed since my last post, and for that I am sorry.   I like to write about my technical endeavors, however, I’ve been feeling “out of time” lately.   Its not that I work late or anything like that, time just seems to disappear.   I get home from work around 6, catch up on personal emails and some news, then its time for dinner, and before I know it, it’s 11 pm!  Where did those 5 hours go!?

I have a list of things to write about, and I’ll be taking a little time off from the daily grind over the  Independence Day holiday to catch up on stuff.  Hopefully I can get some of these things written down, and make room in the ‘ol brain for keeping better track of time.

On a maintenance note, I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading my wordpress to 2.0.2.   The constant stream of spam which I hope to keep hidden from my readers has prompted this move.  I have some new spam-fighting plug-ins working behind the scenes, hopefully they won’t interfere with valid comments.

Sorry if I interrupted anyone’s reading … don’t you like my shoot from the hip method of working on live site code, instead of some backup / test site?

I have added a link to the end of each posting, allowing readers to easily bookmark posts they would like to share with the del.icio.us community.

I have added some new plugins for wordpress that lets me get a better idea of which posts are popular and which have never been read at all.

Readers, you will notice on the sidebar, there is now a “Most Popular” section. It will list out the overall most popular when viewing the main page or viewing individual posts / pages. If you go into the monthly or category archives, it will list out the most popular posts for that month or category.

Each post also has a popularity readout at the end of the post… this is probably going away, once I find where that little bit of code was added.

I have also added a plugin that lets me track referrers, links, enter pages, exit pages, etc. I don’t think the readers can see any of the stats it produces. I may make a stats page for everyone once I get to understand these plugins a bit better.

For post popularity I am using Alex King’s Popularity Contest
For the general http stats I am using Anders Holte Nielsen’s Counterize