It’s nice to see companies feverishly updating their code and churning out releases on a regular basis, but COME ON WordPress!!! Do you seriously need a new update every week? It’s a bit of a hassle to be updating my blog and all the other clients that are running WordPress on my web server — all in the name of security.
I’m damned either way, because if I don’t upgrade these stupid things then I’ll be cursing when some script-kiddie acts all 31337 and hax my site….but I really hate spending the time almost on a weekly basis to upgrade these stupid things.
Oh well. Lets get it right the first time, shall we?
New Theme
After using the Black Minimalism K2 Theme for Wordpress for the better part of the year, I figured it was time for a change. If you normally read my blog via Google Reader or Bloglines, stop on by and take a look at my interface lift. As of right now, it’s nothing more than a simple template — but my hope is that I add some of my own touches to it in the coming days.
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Lately I’ve been getting bombarded with spam on my website blog, JDBaluch.com. Normally Akismet, the Wordpress plugin for flagging and removing spam, seems to catch most of the offending comments and keeps them quarantined out of my site but as of late, Akismet hasn’t really been doing a very good job. This weekend alone I received nearly 60 emails from my wordpress server notifying me of new incoming comments that WERE NOT being quarantined by Akismet. It got so bad, in fact, that I had to disable all email notifications for new comment delivery. This morning when I finally sat down to add a post or two and look at the health of my server, I noticed nearly 1200 new comments flagged by Akismet as spam.
Does anyone even look at spam? How successful of a marketing strategy is it for a company to blast comments for penis enlargement and illegal prescription pharmaceuticals all over the net — and especially on my page?! I just don’t get how it pays off, other than potentially increasing PageRank on Google’s search engine.
I truly hate spam.
Some of my friends and co-workers have been asking how I have integrated Flickr into each one of my blog posts so seamlessly. Well, first of all, what I have done is nothing new or ground-breaking. Here’s a quick tutorial to get you started down the right path. If you run into any snags along the way, feel free to comment this post and I’ll help you out!
- Get yourself a Flickr Account if you don’t already have one!
- Download the Lightbox2 plugin here!
- Inside flickr, set up the blogging service with the following layout
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
<a href="{photo_src}?phpMyAdmin=829c481222f7t332f3e5" rel="lightbox" title="{photo_title}"><img src="{photo_src_m}" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a>
<br />
<span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">
<a href="{photo_url}?phpMyAdmin=829c481222f7t332f3e5">{photo_title}</a>
</span>
</div>
{description}
<br clear="all" />
Yes, I’m using this as an excuse to play with my new code-block display rendering plugin. I’m sure there will be more to come.
