Server Changes
I finally retired my first domain name this past weekend. It was part of a necessary server change, and since open-dialogue.com hasn’t seen use in three or four years, I decided it was time to mothball it. I’m actually not too sorry to see it go. The focus of my web presence has changed significantly [...]
Thesis vs. WordPress
There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is distributed. There was a large discussion yesterday over Twitter between Chris and Matt Mullenweg, the owner of Automattic, the company that [...]
Closing Comments to Control Spam
About a week ago, I set WordPress to automatically close comments on posts over 90 days old on my Reclaimer website. Spam comments over there have become completely unreasonable lately, with Akismet catching and filtering out upwards of 300 spam a day. The vast majority ended up going into the Pending queue rather than the [...]
IntenseDebate
IntenseDebate: A commenting system that rocks! A little while back, I heard the news that Automattic, the folks who develop WordPress, acquired a couple of new services. One of these is called IntenseDebate, a dynamic commenting system that’s compatible with several different blogging platforms. Initially, I’d installed it on Reclaimer as a test drive but [...]
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ComicPress 2.5 and ComicPress Manager
It is through the efforts of two gentlemen that the existence of Reclaimer is possible. The first is Tyler Martin, who has created the beautifully designed ComicPress theme. Tyler’s design makes it eminently easier to produce a regular comic using the powerful WordPress platform. I’ve long been a fan of WordPress, and I’ve wanted to [...]
Reclaimer Redesign
Over the weekend, I spent some time with Photoshop, Filezilla, and a couple of my favorite text editors to put together a complete visual redesign on Reclaimer. I’ve picked up a few new Photoshop tricks in the last few weeks, and I upgraded to the latest ComicPress theme release for Reclaimer, so I figured it [...]
Nearly Hacked
So, apparently my blog underwent a minor attack last night. I woke up this morning to an email saying that my new blog had been set up at shamuswrites.com. Now this sent a slight cold chill down my back, since I clearly already have a blog here. The email gave the typical administrative username, but [...]
Subversioning Up
Well, at long last, I finally figured out the trick to installing Subversion on my server. As such, I’m working on switching most of my WordPress installations to Subversion in order to make it much easier and faster to upgrade in the future. I just switched this site to a Subversion-agreeable install, and I’m pretty [...]
Prologue Theme
WordPress and Twitter fans, rejoice! Now available: Prologue, a Twitterlike theme for WordPress that’s ideal for groups of 3-15 to post short updates to each other. Downside: if you don’t have access to SVN, you have to download each theme file separately, since the boys at Automattic neglected to bundle them in a tidy .zip [...]
