Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

Dec30

Wordpress Database Error Page and Search Engines

WordPress 2.3.2 is now available and with it comes the new ability to create your own custom database error page.

This is a nice feature in my opinion, as not only does it hide possibly sensitive information about your database it also allows you to create a friendly error message for the less computer savvy among us. A possible example would be a simple message telling the user that something has gone wrong and they should check back later. It’s as easy as creating your custom error page and uploading it to /wp-content/db-error.php

Then I got thinking. What about our old friend Mr Search Engine?

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May03

Project Honey Pot and http:BL

After reading this article at Weblog Tools Collection I’ve installed a honey pot on this site and added Jano’s http:BL wordpress plugin to take advantage of http:BL.

The installation of said honeypot was a breeze and if you host your own site I recommend installing your own honeypot. More details are available at Project Honey Pot.

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Jan11

Wordpress 2.0.6

I’m a little behind with this one, still recovering from too much turkey methinks. Wordpress 2.0.6 has been released and while upgrading I’ve made a few changes and been fiddling with the design (coming soon).

The most important (and visible) one is the banishing of WWW. As always a change like this this may break things and / or bring about the end of humanity as we know it. If you spot anything amiss feel free to let me know.

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Aug24

Technorati Incoming Links Widget

Current Version: 0.62

This widget will display your blog’s incoming links from Technorati in your sidebar in a similar way to what you see on the Wordpress dashboard. You can see it in action on my sidebar.

To use it you will need the Wordpress widgets plugin with a widgets compatible theme and a Technorati API key.

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