Tag Archives: Blog updates

Ok, maybe not an ENTIRE new theme…

Posted on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 by Ben L.

So I’m not going to make an entire new theme for my blog… I’ll just make a few tweaks to make the theme I have the best it can be without losing the theme’s feel. One of the first updates I’m doing is banning a certain user agent from my blog because I think they’re trying to DDoS me… I’ve had about 20 404 errors in my 404 log in a row yesterday from the same user agent.

But for now, let’s just hope that I’ve fixed the problem. One of the other things I am going to do to my theme is implement more colors into my comments css.

Old comments looked like this.

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WordPress 2.3.1

Posted on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 by Ben L.

Ok, I’ve updated, back to Runescape.  If you want info about this and the bugs it fixes, go here Continue reading →

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A New Theme

Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by Ben L.

I am thinking about making a custom theme for my blog, and I need some ideas. If it turns out well, I’ll open-source it and I might think about putting it on the WordPress theme catalog.

My ideas are:

  • Rounded corners
  • As few images as possible
  • Gravatar
  • Alternating comment colors
  • Official comments as a different color
  • Lots of customization that can be done without editing source code files
  • Multiple sidebars
  • I might think of more later

The ideas that have been suggested that I liked are:

  • Just stick with the old theme

Those that might make it, but aren’t top priority are:

Those that definitely won’t go in are:

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Gravatar

Posted on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 by Ben L.

I have implemented an avatar system into the blog. Since Automattic has aquired Gravatar, as soon as they have all of their setup done, all the WordPress.com users will have avatars on this blog. If anyone abuses this feature, I will ban them from the blog and delete all of their offending comments.

I’ve implemented this feature using PhotoMatt.net‘s two-lines-of-php method.

So, what are you waiting for? If you want an avatar on this site, go here and create one, my blog will do the rest of the work to get it.

P.S.  I implemented something else that has to do with comments, you get a cookie if you guess it! Continue reading →

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Googlebot is spamming me o.0

Posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 by Ben L.

I’m notified on every 404 error via an rss feed by my blog.  When googlebot started indexing non-existant pages, I got spammed.  The feature that I installed to be a notification of broken links turned into a way that googlebot (unknowingly) spammed me!

You can see this WordPress.org support forums topic for the way that I solved the problem.

~Ben Continue reading →

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