WordPress 2.5: no, thank you all the same, at least not yet


Well, I wrote a reasonably detailed critique of WP 2.5 Release Candidate 1 this morning and it’s now gone. I nearly lost my entire blog but after several hours of trying different means to get my SQL database backup to upload, a temporary hijack of the site front page with a gambling URL, and all kinds of swearing, I eventually had to do a fresh install of WP 2.3.3, reactivate my database maintenance plugin, and do an import using that. It took only seconds. I wish I’d tried that before going near the phpMyAdmin tool, which chugged for hours and froze repeatedly because of the database being so big (not that I’m bragging, you understand, ho hum).

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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Stop all trackbacks to your WordPress blog


If you’re a Wordpress blogger and you grow ever more tired of the rising tide of irrelevant, copyright-infringing splogs sending trackback notifications to your posts and pages to let you and the world know they’ve stolen your content and prefixed it with something along the lines of ‘Archimedes wrote this interesting post today…’ or ‘We came across this excellent post by Doctor Ruth today…’ then it’s time for drastic measures. That is, assuming you don’t blog as Archimedes, Doctor Ruth, asdsffdgg, or any of the bot-created names you find popping up on your site within minutes of having posted something new.

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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