Hoosgot a good use for hoosgot.com? David Sifry has a new site. It should be useful for information retrieval after use goes up, and the initial blog-linkings calms down.
“Hoosgot (pronounced “Who’s Got…”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up here in Hoosgot. It is inspired by the Lazyweb, so invoking the lazyweb works too! ”
Via: PhotoMatt
Just upgraded to WP 2.1.3. I’m getting used to it now. Make sure you back-up your data base, and don’t delete your wp-config.php and your current theme files.
This is a composite of two photos, one exposed for the sky and one for the building. I’m experimenting with going with the photos for the blog having a 600 pixel width. This may mean some of you having to scroll to see the full photo.
Akismet does a great job of correctly identifying spam comments, and it hasn’t given a false positive in the 8K spams so far. But if an Akismet server goes down for a second, damn page-long link-monsters sneak through, sneaky bastards they. I have a zero tolerance policy for such nonsense. Thus human moderation before comments appear is again featured on the GammaBlog. Human promises of frequent moderation, are in my thoughts.
Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.
I upgraded to 2.1.1 before it was attacked, but I upgraded anyway. Went smoothly.
Here’s the Word Press plugins that I’m currently using:
Category Tagging 2.3. It is easy to use. The one thing that confused me was how to change the date formatting and, number of posts displayed etc. You do it by editing category-tagging.php in you plugins folder. I’m using this plugin to display related posts from the past year within the single post pages.
For example if you go to this page, at the bottom of the post you will find a set of five random links to posts from the past year in the street art category. This is because I excluded the photo category from being used for the selection, and there are only photos and streetart in the categories for this post. If I hadn’t excluded the photo category, a much less related list would display. Reload the page and different posts come up.
Akismet 2.0 is a cooperative comment spam filtering system. I’ve been using it for about five days now and it hasn’t blocked any legitimate comments and has blocked over 670 spams. You are able to check the blocked items to reassure yourself there are not any genuine comments. It is working so well that I’ve been able to turn off moderation on the comments. If it does let a questionable comment through, it most likely will be in the moderation queue and then when you mark it as spam, it informs Akismet and presumedly it will be blocked from other users.
Get Recent Comments 1.5.4 This is what I am using to display the recent comments in the sidebar to the left.
The recent posts list on the left is a widget included with the Tiga-06 Word Press theme.
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