Does your blog have a 404 Page? Do you know what one is? And even if you can answer yes to both questions, are you making the most of it? Page Not Found A 404 error is what’s generated when somebody searches for a page on your blog that is no longer there, or indeed [...]

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Wherever you are, have a good one and don’t eat too much! Red Christmas by krisdecurtis

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My earlier post on reaching 5000 spam comments captured by Akismet raised some interest, as several commenters with blogs of similar ages have suffered more like 30,000 spams and asked what my plugins were. So, in approximate order of how they intercept spam, here they are: Bad Behavior: This one stops spam before it reaches [...]

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David has recently returned from a long break to find some tool has stolen his domain name by methods as yet unknown. As a result, he’s got his blog back up at DavidAirey.co.uk, as it was the .com that was stolen. So, if you’ve linked to David in the past, or have him in your [...]

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In a year and three days. When you consider that I also employ two other plugins that catch spam before it reaches Akismet, the true total may be 5 times higher than that – all that bandwidth and time wasted. I can’t believe that there’s so many morons in the world who actually click on [...]

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No, it’s not because of Googles insular approach to link leaving, but because of this: See the Blogger comment box? An unexpandable and unscrollable  box where over half of the comment field is obscured, and you have to hope there’s no typos. Is this happening to anyone else? It’s happened in the last week or [...]

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Birthday Cake by DeeM Amazingly enough it’s been one year (yesterday in fact) since I started this blog. Although it never really did go completely as planned – I envisioned contributions from dozens of different bloggers, with a few regulars – I found enough to talk about myself, and for a while built up a [...]

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As you can see, Blog-Op has finally been graced with a new theme – well, it is nearly a year old! It’s based on Talian-10, and I’ve just tweaked a few elements here and there, to try and customise it a little. I think all of the features are there, although I can see a [...]

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Those of you who use the excellent WordPress plugin Bad Behavior, should upgrade to version 2.0.11 straightaway. This is because the author has recently made some changes to his server which means that BB can get a little ‘over-zealous’ and not only prevent anyone from leaving comments on your blog, but can also prevent you [...]

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Those time-served readers of mine who have been making the despairing trek to this blog over the last year will be well aware of the problems I had with my previous webhost ANHosting, who are part of MidPhase. Dreadful downtime, often days at a time, catastrophic hardware failures, ‘upgrades’ to the server which took my [...]

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