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8 weeks worth of spam is approximately 7795 comments, that’s close to 140 spam comments per day. Chances are that I’ll have to moderate them one by one, as the “Awaiting Moderation”-page times out when trying to bulk moderate the comments. Jolly…

Not long ago, at work, we were painfully close to losing 2.5TB of data belonging to our users due to two faulty disks in the RAID. With two faulty disks in the array, you’ve basically lost everything and with that amount of data, the problem is not having a recent enough backup (which we did), [...]

After updating all my local development installations of WordPress by hand, using wget and whatnot, I figured the time was right to start using subversion instead. And what a treat! Just a simple
svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .
and before you know it; your blog is shining and up-to-date. What’s even more nifty, is that you can do [...]

I created this small plugin that makes, at least in my opinion, programming easier as it allows for faster interpretation when sharing code by colour coding the code.

When searching a WordPress blog the pages and the comments are not included. What good is a search engine then, if it doesn’t include the site in its entirety?

Google have a lot of useful tools that can make a whole lot of difference if used properly. Google Sitemap is one such tool. By pointing Google to the content of your site chances are that some of the content that their crawlers otherwise wouldn’t find is discovered. There are several other benefits from it as well, the lesson to learn is that listening to Google is key.

Comment spam, as mentioned earlier, turned into a real problem for this site. During a day more than 50 spam comments were held back for moderation. The solution? Our friend, the .htaccess-file

Not long ago, four weeks to be painstakingly accurate, I bought Mint. Odd as it may sound, but watching the various statistics that Mint, with some additional Peppers, collects is actually quite satisfying. It gives me a benchmark on how good my posts are, to a certain extent at least and I have a better [...]

The famous Kubrick theme’s predecessor, K2, is now ready for localization and I’ve made a Norwegian translation for it.

The hard-working WordPress team was made aware of a XSS-issue in their 2.x release.