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 some [...]

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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 site [...]

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The main reason that I removed the Blogcatalog & MyBlogLog widgets from this blog was because they would frequently prevent the blog from loading. Although it was more the fault of my theme, which loads the sidebars first (and is not easily fixed), it was a fact that if the widget didn’t load, nor did [...]

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I was tagged about 300 years ago by both Maurice and K from ShanKri-La with the blog improvement meme, and thought I’d better get around to doing it before they forget all about it……
A post with this title should probably be about two thousand points long, but I shall attempt to keep it down to [...]

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If you’ve been blogging more than a month, then you must have experienced it:
“What am I going to blog about today?”
You sit there. You stare at the screen. Nope, not even a title. Perhaps a run through your feeds will help? Half an hour later, you return, and still nothing. Now the (self-imposed) pressure is [...]

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Well for me anyway.
One of the big flaws about WordPress admin, that seems to go unchecked from version to version, is that each admin element requires a separate pageload.  For example, to moderate my Akismet spam list, before going to Better Comments Manager to reply to comments meant:

Clicking on comments=1 pageload.
Click on Akismet=2nd pageload.
If there’s [...]

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As your WordPress blog ages, your archives increase month by month, and begin stretching down your sidebar. A lot of people then remove them, which I find frustrating as a reader, as when I discover a new blog I like to have an easy way to read back through their old posts.
If you’d like to [...]

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I’m not kidding either, especially if you’re a blogger yourself.
David Airey, the Graphic Designer, whose blog covers this subject and much more relevant to all bloggers, is holding a contest to celebrate the first anniversary of his site. He states that the value of the total prize pool is around $4000, but in all honesty, [...]

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I was just asked this question in a comment by David Airey:
I’m trying to improve the search feature on my blog. I was using the ’search everything’ plugin, to incorporate text in comments, but in the end I’m thinking this might be a bad idea - because the search then pulls in more random posts.
And [...]

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Feeling absolutely incapable of writing anything worthwhile, I’m sticking to reading right now: Here’s some of the best articles I’ve found in the last few days:

Simon at the eminently readable Pingable.org asks us to consider 10 writing errors that makes your blog less good. Leaving aside the debatable grammar of that title (sorry Simon…..) there’s [...]

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