monkinetic weblog | redmonk.net

Nothing really visible from out there, but redmonk.net is now running Wordpress 2.0. Yummy.

I’ve updated WordPress on this site to 1.5.1.2, and SpamKarma to version 2b9. I’m re-enabling comments for non-registered users, and opened up trackbacks again.

Do your worst, spammers.

I’m trying out a new plugin, from coffe2code, called Dynamic Text Replace. It’s a simple macro plugin for |WordPress|.

Google link: ::google(”steve ivy”,”Google me”)::

Amazon link: ::amazon(”0596009283/truerwords-20″,”Seth contributed to Firefox Hacks”)::

IMDB link: Jodi and I rented ::imdb(”garden state”,”Garden State”):: recently.

Wikipedia link: Yesterday I linked to ::wikipedia(”Pavaroti”,”Pavaroti”)::

So, that’s kinda neat.

Ryan Boren, |WordPress| developer extraorinaire, posted an article describing how themes are contructed for the upcoming release of WordPress 1.3. Will be useful sometime next summer when I find time to upgrade.

Hehe. I should tell Matt.

I’ve been seeing some performance losses on this site recently, between the search engines and the spambots, and more load on the T1 I’m behind, so (on Seth’s excellent suggestion) I hacked |WordPress| to never send no-cache headers (which it was sending on requests of every kind). You should see a bit more zippiness from the site now.

Someone asked for a proper diff of my changes to upload.php in |WordPress|, so here it is:

upload_additions.diff

I’m a diff/merge idiot, so you’re on your own in using it.