A Frustrating Journey
There’s been a lot of press recently about increased attacks on WordPress sites, and I run WordPress. At first I considered it BS since it seemed ike a standard brute force attack. Not that I didn’t think attacks were going on, a view of logs on my own small servers shows attacks all the time. But Brian Krebs published an article about it and I figure he has a better BS detector than me in these matters. So maybe there has been an increase. I figure I’m pretty safe, I [...] Read the rest »
Everyone got into the patch game recently. Microsoft patch Tuesday sent a half dozen or more patches to PCs. Windows 2011 got some care with a a rollup patch. Then my web server had updates for evey major component. Naturally, it's this site, down last, but where the problems began. Read the rest »
Continuing the series of posts about what I use, this one covers what keeps this website running. Read the rest »
I moved to a new web server this past weekend. I'm still using Linode but I switched from Ubuntu to Debian as the OS and made some configuration changes to Apache. The move was a relatively smooth process. This is my move checklist along with some other comments. Read the rest »
Most year-end awards are for commercial products. But there's some good free stuff out there that's free but worth paying for so it stays around. Read the rest »
When visiting the admin panel recently I noticed a message that the WordPress Stats plugin would only get future updates via the Jetpack plugin. Both are from Automattic, the folks who run WordPress.com. JetPack is a bundle of many plugins from Automattic. I have an instant aversion to bundles like this so I'll be moving that site off of WordPress Stats. I've no idea when the lack of a separate upgrade will cause me problems but I'll chose one of the options I'm testing on this site. Read on to see what I've been test driving... Read the rest »
Like clockwork, the first maintenance release after last week’s release of WordPress 3.2 has happened, WordPress 3.2.1 has been released. No info on what’s new as the change log is sill empty. The update is available through the admin panel (although I updated through svn). I already updated this site and my others. No database changes were made and a simple update to the files was all that was needed. Read the rest »
With the site redesign I figure it’s a good time to run through the WordPress plugins that I use. Previously I had kept the number of plugins to a minimum, looking for simplicity. Even though I've added some new plugins, I also eliminated some so I'm still at 15 plugins after the site redesign. Here's the 15 plugins I use. Read the rest »
Well, my weekend redesign/server move seemed to go well. But then I did a couple posts and tried to implement a few tweaks and things began to go downhill. My main problem was I picked the wrong theme for how I wanted to maintain this site. I used WP-Clear by Solostream which was a theme I liked the look of and it had some nice features. It wasn’t a bad theme and it actually suited the reason I picked it. The problem was – I had the wrong priorities. I’d [...] Read the rest »
WordPress 3.2 has been released. Promoted as improving performance and streamlining WordPress. The update closed 402 tickets in the WordPress trac database. Read the rest »