Enemy of Entropy

Singing the Joys of WordPress

22 June 2008, 1:55 am. 3 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Education, Geekery, Health.

I have to say, I do love the fact that Word­Press allows me to write posts and sched­ule them to post them­selves to cover days when I don’t feel up to blog­ging. I’ve been hav­ing a lot of trou­ble view­ing the mon­i­tor lately – my eyes feel like they’re danc­ing and noth­ing stays in focus, lead­ing to migraines very quickly. That is not a good thing when I’m in the last week of classes for the semes­ter!

I get a lot of spam com­ments on this blog, but over 99% of them are caught by Defen­sio. That’s a real fig­ure, not an esti­mate! See?
Defensio Statistics for Technomom.com

Many of those are truly dis­gust­ing, even with­out ever fol­low­ing a link. If I could find a way to auto­mat­i­cally dis­able com­ments on any post over a cer­tain age, I think the quan­tity would go way down. I don’t want to do that man­u­ally, though, and I haven’t found a plu­gin that will do it auto­mat­i­cally. I did make a post in the WP forums ask­ing about one, hop­ing that I just missed some­thing that is already available.

3 Comments »

  1. avatar Hope. 22 June 2008, 7:51 pm

    I’m sorry you’re hav­ing vision trou­ble, sweetie!

  2. avatar Don. 19 August 2008, 5:27 pm

    I’m just get­ting into using WP and i was hop­ing to get your feed­back into the dif­fer­ence of using WP verse Dru­pal, any sug­ges­tions to using one over the other?

  3. avatar cyn. 19 August 2008, 9:28 pm

    I don’t have exten­sive expe­ri­ence with Dru­pal, but I have used it. I def­i­nitely pre­fer Word­Press for blog­ging. Dru­pal would still be bet­ter for some projects, but it is more com­plex, and I’d hes­i­tate to set up a site using it and hand it over to a non-​​technical per­son. I feel pretty safe doing the same with a WP installation.

 

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