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WordPress 2.0 no comment count with SK2

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0 with my Life Notes blog and noticed that the comments stopped counting. I found in a wordpress troubleshoot that it may be caused by incompatibility with Spam Karma 2 and indeed after I deactivated SK2 new comments shows up in count. In the trouble shoot it says to [...]

Life Notes going Live! (my new blog)

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I opened my new blog Life Notes. This is where I’ll be posting the more non technical stuff.

WPG2 settings for gallery on another vhost

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

I installed the WordPress Gallery2 plugin for my other blog. The default installation does not quite work for me since my gallery is accessed via a different vhost even though they’re both on the same machine, i.e., http://blog.ibao.net/notes points to /var/www/ibao.net/blog/notes and http://gallery.ibao.net points to /var/www/ibao.net/gallery.

To get around it I specified the “Embedded Path prefix” [...]

My del.icio.us tag & linkrolls

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Add the following script to include del.icio.us linkroll to a webpage:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/anniec?count=10;title=my%20del.icio.us”></script>
<noscript><a href=”http://del.icio.us/anniec”>my del.icio.us</a></noscript>

and tags:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://del.icio.us/feeds/js/tags/anniec?count=20;size=12-35;color=66ff33-006633;title=my%20del.icio.us%20tags”></script>

WordPress 1.5 hack to search custom field values

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I previously installed the RustAside & RustLinkOff plugins to add sidenotes and links to my blog enty. Got it to work beautifully except that the content is not searchable. I found this Search Meta Hack that makes search queries look at custom field values in addition to post content. The patch didn’t apply cleanly so [...]

Spam filter for WordPress

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

I recently installed the Spam Karma 2.0 plugin to purge spammers. It looks rather sophisticated. I will give an update on how it fairs after a couple of weeks.