This site is currently hit by about 1 comment spam/second adding to a few thousand spammy comments/day. All of them, save one or two each day, are caught by Akismet though so while it does cost me bandwidth it’s not much of a problem. The rates are still worrying though there is some massive spamming bot at work here, is anybody else seeing these kind of numbers?
I just upgraded my Plazesmap Wordpress plugin to version 0.4 which upgrades the Google Maps API used to version 2. This will allow better satellite photos and map data where Google started offering these (parts of europe for instance).
Wordpress 2.0.2 was just released which seemed like a good time to upgrade this blog.
update: i seized the opportunity to install a new theme too. Since i’m doing lots of AJAX work lately i thought it appropriate to use the Durable theme which makes use of the Prototype library for a some nice effects. All my old plugins were moved to the new theme too and are now nicely tucked away in the top menu.
update2: The GoogleMaps JS does not always play nice with the durable theme which is too bad. I guess i’ll wait if Durable 0.3 fixes this and do some testing myself otherwise.
I just updated my Last.fm plugin. Get the latest version here: Last.fm Recent Tracks Wordpress plugin
The caching behaviour has been changed to account for the fact that Last.fm sends an empty list after an x amount of time in which no new tracks have been added to the Last.fm profile. Default behaviour was to display “no recent tracks” when this happens which i have changed so that it now keeps displaying the cached list of recent tracks until a new list is available from Last.fm. (It will still display “no recent tracks” when your profile was empty to start with or an error prevented the plugin from getting your new profile data.) This seemed to be the preffered behaviour for most people but if lots of people want the old behaviour too i might make it optional (shout if you do). Have fun.
I am not sure yet if it’s time to upgrade but we’ll know soon enough. I for one am waiting just a tiny bit longer. There aren’t any new features i need in 2.0 and i didn’t hear of anyone tackling the biggest problem of Wordpress; it’s rather inefficient use of the database.
A new version that fixes a bug with the Javascript in Internet Explorer was just fixed, if you use this plugin please download the new version.
Google’s Adsense program is now offering the Firefox referal program internationally which means you now get 1 euro for each person that downloads firefox after being referred by you. If you don’t already have an Adsense account with Google sign up by clicking this button:
For extra effectiveness try the Explorer Destroyer script that shows a special Firefox download page to Internet Explorer users only. If you don’t already have Firefox you should have already seen this in action on this very site.
I just released version 0.2 of the Wordpress PlazesMap plugin that displays a google map with your plazes location on your weblog.
This version handles the offline status better and displays plazes errors if the server returns any.
Want to know more about your site or blog? Want to know which keywords work and which ones don’t? Want to know how visitors to your site found you and what they visited in your site?
tip: if you have a wordpress blog just paste the code in your header.php file and all your pages will be tracked…
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