Alex has just released the new version 1.7 of WordPress Mobile edition (see here).

Just upgraded, so the mobile edition is uptodate again, although the prior version was working alright on the pda I tested it on (Kai‘s HP iPaq h6340).

Kitten has just released a new version of her Spaminotor (1.0rc6). You can get it in the WordPress Plugins directory (see here).

If you’re using WordPress 1.3 or above you will even have a admin-page to edit the settings – I don’t WordPress 1.2.2 here, but no worries, the normal configuration (edit the php-file directly) is still working like a charm :tup:

As you might have already seen: Ingoal.info has moved to a new host. As I already said in my previous post, Dreamhost has tripled both space and bandwith on all accounts. So I decided to cut some slack and move Ingoal’s Insight over to Dreamhost. That saves me an additional account and hence some money (around 50$/year) – nothing much, but hey, why spend money if you ain’t got to :wink:

It’s not that I was unsatisfied with TotalChoiceHosting or anything. I was really satisfied with both the performance of their servers and their customer service – it’s just that I’ve got more than 1.5GB of space and nearly 120GB of bandwith without use (until now!).

Alright, the DNS update seems to be done, I hope that you’re able to find me again. If you encounter any errors due to the server move feel free to reply to this post or contact me at ingoal[at]gmail[dot]com

It seems Google has updated the PageRank of Ingoal.info. The updated Page Rank is now 4 (instead of 3).

Way to go :mrgreen:

It’s been a long time since I added the WAP-version and I didn’t even link to it. So today I thought that I could add yet another edition, making Ingoal’s Insight… even more accessible, especially on the road.

So I added the WP-Mobile plugin and put up a new category in the right hand menu “editions” – there are now three of them: the standard xhtml one, the wap one and the mobile one (for pdas). Groovy stuff.

On the backend I embedded the WP grin plugin so now it’s no more smiley-writing, but smiley clicking :tup:

After reading that the new version 1.2.2 fixes some security bugs (see here), I thought it was a good idea to upgrade, especially due to the fact that I missed the 1.2.1 update.

Everything seems to be working just fine and everything is uptodate again. :tup:

Don’t worry, the spice girls aren’t back in town!

It’s just me trying out some new smilies. I’m really a fan of smilies and so used to them, via numerous forums, that I thought it’s about time that I added some essential ones to the standard WordPress-list. So here they are:

• 1. :rolleyes: – classic rolleyes-smiley
• 2. :goof: – goofy smiley
• 3. :badpc: – one of my all-time favourites, smash the bad pc
• 4. :santa: – just in time for christmas, the santa-smiley
• 5. :brickwall: – sometimes it’s just like you’re running into a brick-wall
• 6. :argue:
• 7. :tup: – thumbs up
• 8. :tdown: – thumbs down

Expect them to appear in future posts…

After installing it on November 30th (see here), I’m really more than satisfied with Kitten’s Spaminator! It really deserves the name Spaminator as it has terminated my spam problems.

So far it has killed more than 30 spam comments without killing real comments (which it just leaves to the WordPress moderation)!

So: thumbs up! I recommend it to every WordPress user!

Thanks to Adam‘s suggestion if decided to give Kitten’s Spaminator a try. It’s said to be (one of) the most effective comment span plugins available for WordPress. Very well, let’s see what it can do. In order to see if it’s really working successfully I’ve deactivate the auto-shutoff on comments, so commenting on posts older than 30 days is possible again from now on.

After seeing that recent trackback URIs were really hitting the right hand menu, it was time to update the style. Now they’re displayed a little smaller but won’t be messing with the design anymore.

Thanks to this tutorial it was done in under 30 seconds :-)

Alright. Enough is enough.

I’m really tired of getting comment spam after comment spam. Okay, most of it is already caught due to a good list of spam words, but it’s nontheless annoying having to moderate them. So now I’ve added a plugin which autocloses comments after 30 days (see here) – it’s kind of a bummer as there might be some people who would make decent comments on older posts, but you can’t please anyone I guess :-(

Update: Not perfect yet and something still missing, but enough for today – need to get some uni work done.

As you may have noticed I’m playing around with the header atm. I want to incorporate a pic and add some navigation, so don’t wonder if it’s looking a little awkward atm. “Work in progress” ;-)

In the process of posting about my newest addition of gravatar support I encountered some the “problem” that php code isn’t displayed all that nicely within posts. So I search a little and came up with PHPizer which is doing some nice php syntax highlighting now. Thumbs up to the author :-)

Update: To quote Homer Jay Simpson “D’oh” (or “Nein” like he says in the german version)! This whole error message thing was just caused by some blanks after the closing statement. Everything fixed now :-)
(1:30am) – time to catch some sleep now

Now I’m getting some nasty errors everytime I post a comment or submit a post. This isn’t looking all that good.

Example:

So, if you encounter that error or similiar please just ignore it and go back to ingoal.info your comment was submitted and will appear (right away if it doesn’t need to be moderated). I’ll try to fix this asap!

Note to self: not always a good idea to start upgrades in the middle of the night :-(

After reading about it all around the web, especially on Chu Yeow’s blog I thought maybe I should support this, too. So I downloaded the WordPress plugin and followed the instructions. It was up and running in no time. Nontheless I still had some problems due to the fact that as soon as you enter one no-default parameter it starts to mess up the validation of your document (or at least of my document).

So I went on and hacked a little:

Original version:

[php]
…
if($rating && $rating != ”)
$out .= “&rating=”.$rating;
if($size && $size != ”)
$out .=”&size=”.$size;
if($default && $default != ”)
$out .= “&default=”.urlencode($default);
if($border && $border != ”)
$out .= “&border=”.$border;
…
[/php]

Version with correction:

[php] …
if($rating && $rating != ”)
$out .= “&rating=”.$rating;
if($size && $size != ”)
$out .=”&size=”.$size;
if($default && $default != ”)
$out .= “&default=”.urlencode($default);
if($border && $border != ”)
$out .= “&border=”.$border;
…
[/php]

As those arguments weren’t escaped properly I had 20 errors – now 0

So, check out the comment of any post now and you will find the gravatar of the comment author if (s)he has got one or the standard gravatar I created (will maybe be replaced later on with something “cooler”).

If you don’t know what a Gravatar is yet check out gravatar.com and get yours ;-)