Technical Aspects of Blogging
For someone who is interested in Internet technology, like me, the technical aspects of blogging can be as interesting as writing the content, at least when you are using a regular domain host and Wordpress. Unfortunately, it can also be frustrating too. Last night, to my dismay, one of my very first visitors, Stephanie West Allen, was unable to contact me.
It turns out that the problem was a badly-behaving Wordpress plugin known as Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior is a plugin designed to prevent link spam from known spammers and “splogs.” Apparently, Bad Behavior runs on a blacklist which refers back to the developer’s server. The developer migrated his websites to a new server, decommissioned the blacklist, and every site with Bad Behavior installed experienced lock outs (including site administrators - even I had trouble getting into my own site). There is a new version of the plugin which should solve that problem.
Another interesting thing I noticed is a usability issue: the Wordpress theme I was using didn’t have a trackback link for my entries. I found a solution to add it to my current theme, which makes the theme much more usable.
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