Mod_security Mint and Dreamhost
Mint and mod_security April 15th, 2008 Recently I came across a problem in Mint that I thought I’d share a solution to. Over the past month or so, I had noticed a huge drop off in traffic on my site. At first I figured this was due to the fact that I wasn’t writing anything interesting (certainly a possibility), but I also noticed a substantial drop in Google’s organic results too. After doing more research, I noticed that only a tiny fraction of my pages were actually logging page […]https://danielandrews.com/2008/04/15/modsecurity-mint-and-dreamhost/
WordPress 2.5
WordPress 2.5 has been released, and so far I am quite impressed. What’s new, you ask WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, cohttps://danielandrews.com/2008/03/30/wordpress-25/
Spam Switch
With the recent rash of Trackback spam, I finally bit the bullet and am now experimenting with Akismet in addition to Spam Karma. I'm not sure how well they work together, or, at this point, which plugin processes the comment first. Update: I'm trying Akismet on its own for now. Or, more precisely, Akismet as the sole second line of defense. Bad Behavior is still holding the front line. Update (Feb 14): I'm now back to using Spam Karma 2, but with a plugin that uses Akismet as one of the […]https://journal.kvibber.com/2008/02/spam-switch/