https://minimal.org.uk/categories/wordpress/ Recent content in wordpress on minimal.org.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb ian Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:45:19 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2014/11/08/securing-my-witterings-cloudflare-universal-ssl-and-wordpress/ Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:45:19 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2014/11/08/securing-my-witterings-cloudflare-universal-ssl-and-wordpress/ Ok, a bit unfair – my mind has clearly been infected by skimming one too many clickbait headlines: I am sorry. I use CloudFlare for most of my non-temporary sites so I can skimp on hosting. I’m pretty sure that’s not the tagline they push, but it works well and gets rid of those annoying image loading lags for the most part with very little effort from me. I’d been ignoring the Universal SSL stuff as I just don’t have the need for their commercial CDN, but that’s changed with the recent move to enable it for all customers, although just visiting https://minimal. https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/wordpress-lighttpd-and-http-500-errors/ Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:35:13 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2013/04/21/wordpress-lighttpd-and-http-500-errors/ So this has been driving me potty, but thanks to this bug report and lots of checkbox clicking it turns out that the Google Sitemap plugin v2.7 from BestWebSoft breaks the admin backend, but the plugin from Arne Brachhold works properly. Still, not impressed at the 100% opaque 500 response from WP: impossible to debug from browser logs turned up to the max 🙁 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/27/new-theme-for-mobile-viewers/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:02:50 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2009/04/27/new-theme-for-mobile-viewers/ I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need more work. If you’re looking at this site from an iPod Touch, iPhone or Android device, you should now get a much more compact ‘just-the-facts’ style view, courtesy of WPTouch. If you have any problems, or think the layout could still stand to be improved, do let me know in the comments. https://minimal.org.uk/2008/11/01/blog-upgrade/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:34:28 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2008/11/01/blog-upgrade/ Crikey. That was a bit of work – moving from WordPress 1.2 with a huge number of hacks into the latest-and-greatest version, but even though it was pretty much working, software from May 2004 (!) was starting to show in terms of flexibility and general slickness. I’ve added some static pages for things like my reviews and Aperture hacks as they seem to be the most popular content, and I’m slowly going through the old posts to clean up bad quote marks, odd foreign characters and broken image links. https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/01/ah-so-thats-what-they-do-next-then/ Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:22:43 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/02/01/ah-so-thats-what-they-do-next-then/ Ok, commenting is effectively disabled, so this morning there are 15 trackback spam links… Just in case anyone wondered what ‘they’ do next, and yes, for the moment Trackback has been disabled (if it turns out to be an exploit rather than a real Trackback, then it’ll be back on again once it’s patched). https://minimal.org.uk/2005/01/31/saved-by-javascript-what-a-turn-up/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:49:15 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2005/01/31/saved-by-javascript-what-a-turn-up/ Given that I have always tried as hard as I can to make browsing my site (in all its incarnations) as similar as possible in both the latest standards compliant browser(s) as well as lynx/links (without resorting to browser idents, thankyouverymuch) it’s with regret that I now announce that I’ve added JavaScript to my site, and you’ll not be able to leave a comment without it being enabled 🙁 For some unknown reason, denying every single spam comment and throwing the IP’s into a banned list just doesn’t stop them – they (the bots, or possibly the spammers) are just so dumb they keep trying. https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/05/blocking-odd-comment-only-posts/ Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:24:16 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/08/05/blocking-odd-comment-only-posts/ For some reason, visitors to this site seem to love clicking on one or more smiley faces and then sending it as a comment. I’ve no idea why, except perhaps that they feel my site doesn’t have enough images, but if you’d like to have a little more information to go on before deciding to approve/decline the comment then adding the following lines to wp-comments-post.php will help. Basically, the poster has to put something in one of the three fields besides the comment for it to be considered for approval – no it’s not foolproof, but I’d like to see at least a name to go on before deciding if the icon-only post is relevant, or the result of some random clickage) https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/29/comment-moderation-feedback/ Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:06:22 +0000 https://minimal.org.uk/2004/06/29/comment-moderation-feedback/ Comment moderation is handy, but it’s annoying from a non-spammers point of view when it appears that the submission has simply vanished. My solution is to add an extra function to wp-includes/template-function-comments.php and a couple of lines in the wp-comments.php file that show a placeholder for pending comments with the time and date of submission (to help prevent abuse such as links in place of a user name there is nothing shown that was typed by the commenter).