Suzi’s Blog

I really do love WordPress – I like the appearance, the functionality, the control I have; in fact, there is hardly anything I don’t like about WordPress… notice I said hardly.

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I finally took some actual action and activated Akismet. I partly want to get rid of the spam, and partly just want to see if this will actually work. There are other methods (including a suggestion made in a comment to me by a kind stranger) and other anti-spam plugins, but quite a few people have sung the praises of this one so I’ll give it a try.

Because of this, comments and pings can now be sent without waiting for me to validate them (unless your message is mistaken as spam and then you’ll need to have a little patience).

We’ll see how this goes. I really don’t like having to moderate every comment or turn on required name and email as I appreciate the speed and anonymity of the internet.

I’d just like to note that so far, in the brief time this plugin has been active for, it’s found 43 spam and only got two of those wrong.

I found myself looking back at old posts I’d made and I actually found quite a few based upon my blog, site and whatnot even though they were under a category about me. They don’t really make sense there in my opinion… which is why I created a new category so I can discuss all my website crap away from my personal life crap.

More to come soon.

I’ve been continuing to get blog spam and it’s very annoying, so I’ve altered my blog posts so that comments need to be firstly approved before they appear…

I’m posting about this for two reasons. Firstly so anyone that cares won’t be concerned if their comments don’t appear straight away, and secondly so that my friends will test it out for me so I know the settings are working. Much appreciated.

Maybe I’ll change it back in the future, but it’s too much of a hassle at the moment.

P.S – Hope everyone is getting ready for the festive season! Flopsy says hello to everyone!

Over the last two weeks I’ve received over 15 spam comments on two blog entries (old ones at that). A lot get caught before anyone ever gets a chance to see them, but some get through and I have to manually get rid of them. Suffice to say it’s a pain.

Anyway, until I find a better way to deal with it I’m denying comments to posts with spam replies. If you find any blog posts that you can’t give feedback on, that’s the reason why.

No doubt they’ll move on to another entry, but at least that would be some variety. I have other ideas if this keeps happening, but we’ll see what happens.

Thanks to the ever amazing email provider that is Runbox, I now have new webspace. It’s got nifty features that my present one (Honest Networks) doesn’t have, although the one I do have has many merits also.

I definitely do not want to get rid of HN by any means and intend to keep my domain here, however I have a 2nd domain I use just for email (with Runbox) which I can now use as a website too. As I said, it has some great features I’d like to take advantage of and, as it comes with my email, it seems a shame to waste it.

The question though is what do I put on the new website? Do I split the site I have? Think of something new?

Suggestions are welcome…

If you’d just take a moment to look at My Favourite Tunes Page, you may recognise the starting of something I had before. You wouldn’t be mistaken.

I’ve decided to ditch a page on my website (namely my Music Playlist) and let it fit snugly on a page within my blog.

It took me a while to get things sorted and arrange it where I wanted it to go, but now that’s done I think I’ll take a break and add the rest of the songs sometime later today.