Bitsblog Tech Note: Membership is Turned Off

After removing around 500 junk addresses today, mostly with Russian and PolishIP addresses attached, I’ve decided to turn off applications for membership at BitsBlog.  I’ve noticed an uptick in these of late as if someone’s trying to take advantage of

Been doing a lot of stuff in the background today.

Updated a few plugins, tape backups, added some functionality, did some database cleaning.

Out of all of that, about the only thing you’ll see… you may not even have noticed…

We’re running on WordPress 2.7 now. All seems fine.

Update:(Bit)

I do have to say, the thing is running a lot faster, particularly the author’s dashboard, though I miss the way the CrazyHorse interface worked. I guess it’s like

Those of you who blog with WordPress will understand this. The rest of you will not understand this. Just go on with your lives, citizens.

I installed two plugins last night, that apparently don’t get along.

1: Title Capitalization

2:

After crushing about 300 spam comments, today, I decided the highest priority is to get THAT nonsense under control. So, I’ve added an anti-spam tool in the comments.  Yeah, I know it’s a pain, but look; My database is showing

Decided I had such good luck with the theme changeout, that I’d press my luck and attempt the WordPress Upgarde to v2.6.1. All seems well.

As I told you would happen, the WordPress folks released version 2.6.

This actually happened a few days ago.

I’ve got it up and running, and it looks fine so far.

I must say the guy  doing the ayuo-upgrade software

BitsBlog has been having problems with the XML-Sitemap plugin, for the last couple of months. This is a plugin that creates a comlete site listing for Google and other search engines, so they know what’s going on here. saves them

Some of you may have noted elements of the blog that were missing around 7pm to 730pm eastern tonight.

I had a software update blow up on me, and I had to revert to tape. We never went down outright,

One of the things I’ve always liked about WordPress is the ability to post-date posts. In other words, I can post stuff and tell the system not to release the post until later… even days later. Obviously, this can solve

Upgraded to 2.51 tonight. Auto-upgrade still isn’t ready for prime time, but long as you know it’s gonna crash, it does OK. It actually got 90% done, this time, so the last auto-upgrade patch does work a bit better.

Played

Yeah, THAT figures.

While this site was offline because of the server move…. (and I must admit the performance appears to be better at first glance) it turns out that WordPress has released a new version, too, and the

Fellow Swamp Stomper Conservative Reader has a new look tonight, (Sharp!)  and is one of WordPress’s newest converts. Wander over and graze, and say hello.

I no more than get the WordPress software update completed, yesterday… I swear… no more than 10 minutes, and the next update comes in, and it’s an urgent one. Some kind of security bug has been discovered on the version