OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Online Photo DB: Stage 6e – Another look at WordPress and PhotoQ

This post is part of the Online Photo Database project documentation. Learn more about the project’s current status. These notes on WordPress and PhotoQ are based on some additional evaluation I just performed. They should be read in conjunction with my previous notes on using WordPress and PhotoQ as a photo database solution. I went […]

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Online Photo DB: WordPress mini-evaluation

Evaluating WordPress‘s readiness to become the CMS behind an online photo database is not a trivial task.

Here are my mini-evaluations of five potential plugins.

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WordPress Plugin Idea: Prevent Undermining by Social News sites

I have a great idea for another plugin for WordPress

It detects when people are redirected from Reddit.

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OddThinking Feed Problems

OddThinking is apparently suffering from a bug in WordPress.

If you can’t see this post, then you may have the problem it is talking about.

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Trackback tricks

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

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Compact Monthly Archive Widget – 1.0 Released

The Compact Monthly Archive (CMA) Widget has just been released at 1.0.

This widget has been on the sidebar on the left of OddThinking for 9 months, but now it is available for you own WordPress blog.

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Categories: About OddThinking,S/W Dev
Tags: cma, plugin, software, widget, WordPress

EmailShroud 2.2 is now available

With XHTML validity, new JavaScript, better caching and the first new palindromic version number since 1.0.1.

Click on the EmailShroud 2.2 link on the menu on the left, or go the long way round.

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Recent Down-Times, An Exploration

Recently (since the move to a new server a few months ago), Somethinkodd.com has been down for a couple of minutes, many many times.

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Blog Software Upgrades

Just a quick note to explain that I have upgraded OddThinking to WordPress 2.2.1.

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Fixed: Avoiding Email Spam Leads to Comment Spam

Short version: OddThinking occasionally gets some weird off-topic comments on the EmailShroud page. I have taken some action, and I am hoping it will stop now.

Longer more interesting version follows…

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