Thursday 22nd September 2005
Spam spam spam
Wow, I’ve just checked the little calendar on the front page of my own weblog, and it looks like I don’t actually post here half as often as I think I do. But seeing as payday (tomorrow!) comes round remarkably quickly too, I guess I’ve just got a general not-keeping-track-of-things problem. Oh well.
But I am really busy, both at work and during the rest of the time, so there’s not much lazing around or trying to find something to pass the time. At the moment, in amongst everything else I do, I’m trying to upgrade the version of Wordpress that this blog runs on. To do so, I’ve decided to write my own theme module for the new version, instead of just hacking my way through the code to make this version look like it does. Hopefully it’ll make it easier to upgrade next time - my cavalier approach means I have no idea what code I changed originally.
My hand is being forced by the return of the stupid spammers. Currently the spam comments are all being moderated, but I’m getting fed up deleting them twice a day. Hopefully the upgrade will sort it all out.
Wow. What a boring post. Still, you get what you pay for…
just do a diff on the original source code with the code of GravityStorm.
diff -r is your friend here.
Comment by Sam — 24/9/2005 @ 10:24 pm
I’m using the current gravitystorm css, along with the current end result, more as an “inspiration” on how to do things since it’s just a mess. And a diff isn’t really going to help much, seeing as I just changed the weblog stylesheet to @include the gravitystorm one, and made changes to that (not keeping any backups or history, of course!). This time, however, I’m trying to follow the “best” way of doing things, and create a wordpress “theme” module, which should make it easier to upgrade.
Comment by Andy — 25/9/2005 @ 11:05 am
[…] I’ve finally got round to upgrading the software that powers this weblog. That’s been a long time coming too. So if you notice anything wrong (or badly styled) let me know. I’ve also got all the spam-filtering plugins disabled; I want to see how well the new version copes by itself. It’s like putting your head in a lions mouth to see if he’s hungry… […]
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