I got tired of listening to Ender complain about how damn fugly our site was, so I switched up the theme. This is taking forever to edit, but I think it’s gotten to the point where I can take it out of Maintenance Mode (awesome plugin, btw). I’ll keep making changes, so please [...]
Category Archives: Site News
Hotlink Protection Is Off
10/3/2007 – 12:58 pm
I’ve always had good relations with our host at Surpass Hosting, and I would recommend them as a hosting provider to anyone. Their prices aren’t always the cheapest, but I’ve had great customer support. Anyway, just today I went on to use the cPanel and was thrilled to see they upgraded the interface [...]
More Tag In RSS
9/30/2007 – 10:58 pm
I don’t use the <!–more–> that often, but I just recently noticed that it will cause posts to cut off in the RSS feed (I believe this is on purpose). While the more tag is very useful for formatting how your page looks, it kinda defeats the purpose of offering a full feed. [...]
WP 2.3 RC1
9/23/2007 – 11:11 am
I couldn’t wait till tomorrow to upgrade, so rather than try out WP 2.3, I went ahead and installed the release candidate. I had been running WP 2.3 Beta 3 on my personal blog for a while, and it seemed stable. Upgrading from 2.2.3 to 2.3 RC1 actually went very smoothly, and I’ve [...]
Changes to Spoiler Tags
9/22/2007 – 10:07 pm
Readers
Since version 1.6, the Simple Spoiler plugin has supported forum formatting of the spoiler tags (i.e. [spoiler] and [/spoiler]) in addition to the HTML formatting of spoiler tags (<spoiler> and </spoiler>). I have disallowed the HTML formatting, and so Wordpress will once again eat all comment text within the HTML formatted spoiler tags. [...]
Breaking Even
9/14/2007 – 12:39 am
I’m really excited! From ad earnings this month, I think that Sea Slugs! Anime Blog will actually cover costs this year! While I understand that this is not really all that impressive considering that some bloggers can actually live comfortably off their blog earnings, this is still money that I can spend on [...]
Upgrading to WP v2.2.3
9/10/2007 – 12:17 am
Just one month after I finally upgraded to WP 2.2.2, I see this notice on the Dashboard:
2.2.3 is a security and bug-fix release for the 2.2 series. Since this is a security release, we suggest you upgrade immediately. Two of the fixes are high priority.
Find And Replace
9/4/2007 – 1:28 pm
So of course the UTF-8 conversion could not go off without a hitch. It seems that comments are sometimes not converted correctly, although everything else is. Normally, find and replace in MySQL databases is frowned upon, but because the gibberish is so unique (sorry to those who type entirely in gibberish), it is [...]
Now With More UTF
9/3/2007 – 10:49 pm
Unsatisfied with the previous 7 Unicode Transformation Formats, I recently converted the database to UTF-8. Before I get into the gory details, here’s all you need to know:
Back up your database, install this plugin, read the instructions, and follow the instructions. Everything will be done with the push of one button. There [...]
Helping Google’s Tentacles Caress Your Site
8/31/2007 – 4:53 pm
Google already knows a lot about you and your website. Why not help them take the last remaining fragments of your soul, in return for better search results and tracking? Here are 3 simple tools that let you improve your website from behind the scenes.
Trackbacks/Pingbacks Fixed
8/24/2007 – 1:38 pm
Even though the site was sending requests out correctly, it was odd how trackbacks never ever showed up in the comments section. Well, I finally found the solution:
I have added this to my .htaccess file:
<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>
At first I thought trackbacks were sorta useless, because I can see incoming links on my dashboard. [...]
Learning to Love RSS
8/23/2007 – 9:35 pm
Just a while back, commenter David asked about if Sea Slugs! Anime Blog would ever feature full RSS feeds and images. My response was rather dismal:
In the near future, I would have to say no. I’m open to change, but right now I think it makes it way too easy for feed scrapers [...]
Switching Up Spam Filters
8/23/2007 – 1:39 pm
Previously the site was running Spam Karma 2, and the somewhat redundant Akismet. While I think Akismet is a good idea, and it is nice to have a team behind an effort, I like Spam Karma 2 better. Spam Karma 2 gives me way more options, and is not subject to the poisoning [...]
