Akismet has caught 60,128 spam for you since you first installed it.
That is the (lucky) number of spams I have received so far. Within 16 months in existence, that’s translated to over 3,758 per months. Pretty huge for a blog like this.
Why on earth am I suddenly talking about spams? No la, it’s just that I’m doing some housekeeping, cleaning up the mess over here and there. Upgrading here and there. Plus minus putting a little touch up on the theme (I’m still feeling slightly lazy writing).
I don’t have the number, but based on the number of comments moderated, I feel that spammer has ‘dropped by’ more than usual. Like unmanned house, which tends to get exposed to burglary higher than manned house, the same fate goes to blogs, I guess.
It’s not really bothering me, but I’m glad that they are still willing to drop by even when I’m not around.. Lol. At least I got someone taking care of blogjer….
Besides, I found lots of comments like below pending approval (I moderate first time commentators). It is not marked as spams (indeed, since they’re not viewed as spams by Akismet), but it is valid comment in the form of spam.
hey nice post.
I will check it out.
interesting site it really learns me a lot…
Are you going to approve it? Well, to me, it depends.. if the post is about tutorial, foods, games, it definitely makes sense, but if the post is about disaster or announcement, the comments will be ‘buried’ right away. Imagine ‘I’ll try it out’ comment for ‘This is not Bill Gates’s daughter‘ post, funny rite. Try what???
For little blogs like this, i don’t think readers will care too much if their comment is deleted accidently, but be considerate..
It’s been more than 2 months since I last wrote a new post. What a long period huh? I’m not giving up blogging, it’s just a matter of how diligent I am writing here..
The silence is more or less impacting this blog. The rank, page views, visitors and RSS readers are dropping, but surprisingly, the earning is slightly increased. Imagine… if this passive income is 10 or 20 times more than i currently earn, haha, this post shouldn’t be posted this soon!
But, not everything went well. After this long ‘break’, I feel a little bit challenging finding ideas and put it on the post. Perhaps, my blogging skill is little bit rusty and need some time to get polished.
Having said that, so this post serves as a ‘warm-up’ before I shift to the next ‘gear’, but not so soon.
My apology for not replying emails or messages posted here or in my Facebook’s wall. I’m just too lazy to go through all my emails and my social media accounts.
To end this ‘warm-up’, enjoy the ‘Get Back’ video from The Beatles. It doesn’t really suit this post, but I found it rather interesting. (The lyric)
Pertama (first) as it named, is my first ever Wordpress theme. Created from scratch (except the CSS) based on WPdesigner tutorial and Wordpress codex notes, Pertama is a simple theme with almost no image and spot a white clean design, useful for personal blog.
Features
Widget-ready on the right sidebar and footer
Simple and clean design with 880px width
2 menu bar on the header for pages and categories
Search bar on the header to provide ease of searching
Additional widget - author and recent entries widget (as part of my experiment of using function.php and incorporating more plugin in the next release)
Pertama tested on Wordpress 2.3 up 2.6 without any compatibility issue. It displayed properly in IE7 and Firefox 2.2 and 3.0.1 as well
You’ll see more WP themes and other themes or template (especially for article directory) released in future, so stay tune!!
Oh yeah, it’s finally released. I guess some of you might grumbling. why Wordpress team is releasing a new version quite often lately. It’s barely 3 months after major release of 2.5, follow by bug fix version on 2.5.1. I know i know.. you’re tired of upgrading isn’t it. (especially when the WAU plugin doesn’t work)
I manage to install 2.6 in my personal blog using Wordpress Automatic Upgrade (WAU) plugin. The fully auto mode is not working and stuck on step # 2 (backup database) as the exec() function was disabled on my hosting. So I choose semi auto mode, skip the DB backup (not recommended if you have tonnes of content) and completed all steps in less than 5 minutes
User interface wise, there is not much different, except on the plugin and manage posts/pages menu. Both now has check box to select multiple option. Plugins also were now separated between active and inactive plugins. On the Plugin tab menu, there is a small red numbers indicating how many plugin is out dated
There are couple of interesting features on this release. For me, the top feature is non other than the post revisions where it keep a version of your saved draft, which can be viewed later. Oh wait, you can compare them and restore it anytime you want!
You also can preview the theme before activating it from the control panel. I was mistakenly interpreting this feature on my previous post that this is kinda like a theme preview plugin. (saying to myself: SWITCH and PREVIEW is not similar ZAKI!). I definitely need more English lesson.. lol
Then, there is GEARS support to speed up the blog loading espcially on the slow internet connection. It cached the CSS and javascript on the local disk.
What else?? The are new image control (caption, resize, a new gallery), customizing the gravatar, bookmarklet (called press this) bla bla bla and etc.
On the compatibility issue, Wordpress dev team has mentioned that most of the themes and plugins released for 2.5 should be compatible with 2.6. But I found that couple of plugins installed in my blog has a new update released for this version. Plugin dev should have more work now to ensure their plugin compatibility. Kudos to you guys!!
If you still uncertain to upgrade or not, or has not yet upgrade even to 2.5.1, perhaps the video and the full features list will help you to decide if you’re going for 2.6 now.
Not to be left behind by Six apart which lauch iPhone app last month during the WWDC 20083 G (the video) Wordpress is going to launch it’s own iPhone app soon, most likely when iPhone 3G on sale starting today (tomorrow in the US).
Watch the app in action on this video. I hope Wordpress will rolled out similar app for Windows Mobile or Symbian OS, which has huge present outside of the US
Silence is golden for spams?
Akismet has caught 60,128 spam for you since you first installed it.
That is the (lucky) number of spams I have received so far. Within 16 months in existence, that’s translated to over 3,758 per months. Pretty huge for a blog like this.
Why on earth am I suddenly talking about spams? No la, it’s just that I’m doing some housekeeping, cleaning up the mess over here and there. Upgrading here and there. Plus minus putting a little touch up on the theme (I’m still feeling slightly lazy writing).
I don’t have the number, but based on the number of comments moderated, I feel that spammer has ‘dropped by’ more than usual. Like unmanned house, which tends to get exposed to burglary higher than manned house, the same fate goes to blogs, I guess.
It’s not really bothering me, but I’m glad that they are still willing to drop by even when I’m not around.. Lol. At least I got someone taking care of blogjer….
Besides, I found lots of comments like below pending approval (I moderate first time commentators). It is not marked as spams (indeed, since they’re not viewed as spams by Akismet), but it is valid comment in the form of spam.
hey nice post.
I will check it out.
interesting site it really learns me a lot…
Are you going to approve it? Well, to me, it depends.. if the post is about tutorial, foods, games, it definitely makes sense, but if the post is about disaster or announcement, the comments will be ‘buried’ right away. Imagine ‘I’ll try it out’ comment for ‘This is not Bill Gates’s daughter‘ post, funny rite. Try what???
For little blogs like this, i don’t think readers will care too much if their comment is deleted accidently, but be considerate..