{"id":1573,"date":"2007-05-27T00:25:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/05\/27\/blog-adjustments-and-new-plugins\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T16:11:31","slug":"blog-adjustments-and-new-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/05\/blog-adjustments-and-new-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Adjustments and New Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VirusHead Blog changes and updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesterchan.net\/portfolio\/programming.php\">WP-EMail<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; You can email any post now. There&#8217;s a link at the bottom of each post that will open a pop-up window, and there&#8217;s a tally on the sidebar of the most emailed posts. At the moment, there is only one. I sent myself the Green Day post to test the system. It&#8217;s like butter.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/simpletagging.herewithme.fr\/\">Simple Tagging<\/a><\/strong>: I decided to go with the Simple Tagging Plugin rather than continue to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neato.co.nz\/ultimate-tag-warrior\/\">Ultimate Tag Warrior<\/a> &#8211; Simple Tagging is easier for me to use, and it has a lot of features that I really like. The Technorati tags link directly to the tag page at the &#8211; guess what &#8211; Technorati site, and the others link internally to a page of all the posts with the chosen tag. The extra features I like (and I&#8217;m not using all of them) are the ability to list a specified number of related posts, the little menu of suggested tags, and the auto-complete type-ahead dropdown menu to add tags. I never used the heavy Yahoo tag suggestions in UTW. I prefer to do my own indexing regardless of the popularity of key phrases.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us\/\">Bad Behavior<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve installed this plugin as a first line of defense against spambots. <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a> is already installed to pick up most of the rest. Some people were having trouble every once in a while with seeing the verification image used by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblog.ca\/?p=21\">Peter&#8217;s Custom Anti-Spam<\/a>. I love Peter&#8217;s plug-in, especially since you can add your own words as verifiers; I made up words for fun every once in a while. Still, it&#8217;s not worth it if anyone has trouble. I&#8217;ll see how well the Bad Behavior\/Akismet combination works out. At the moment, Bad Behavior has blocked 3659 access attempts in the last 7 days. The total can be, and is, displayed in the footer. <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/freepressblog.org\/plugins\/recentComments.html\">Recent Comments List<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; updated to version 1.9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see all the plugins that I&#8217;m using at any given time (care of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-plugins\/\">WP-Plugin List<\/a>) here.<\/p>\n<p>To Do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><s>Create a separate page with Simple Tagging tag cloud. I don&#8217;t really want it on the sidebar. I&#8217;ve read the documentation, but the page template they refer to simply doesn&#8217;t appear and I&#8217;m a little stymied. I&#8217;ll do a little more research on that.<\/s> Done 5\/27 &#8211; but I still need to play with the format.\n<li>Consolidate some of the tags &#8211; there are far too many and there is a lot of topic overlap. I still have some hundred or posts that don&#8217;t have tags at all.<\/li>\n<li>Now that this design is well and truly complete, I&#8217;m getting tired of it. It would be a real pain to change it now. I&#8217;m not using the WP widgets yet &#8211; everything has been hand-inserted except for the features that originally came with the SeaBeast theme. I would like it very much if I could figure out how to put the two sidebars on the left while keeping them SEO-friendly. I just prefer to read text that is on the right-hand side of the page.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment a little bit with web-friendly fonts. Is there a better one than I&#8217;m using?<\/li>\n<li><s>Figure out how to make the font a little smaller in the footer display of Bad Behavior<\/s>. Never mind. I just adjusted the code in the plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirusHead Blog changes and updates: WP-EMail &#8211; You can email any post now. There&#8217;s a link at the bottom of each post that will open a pop-up window, and there&#8217;s a tally on the sidebar of the most emailed posts. At the moment, there is only one. I sent myself the Green Day post to test the system. It&#8217;s like butter. Simple Tagging: I decided to go with the Simple Tagging Plugin rather than continue to use Ultimate Tag Warrior&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/05\/blog-adjustments-and-new-plugins\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,27],"tags":[2463,3748,3749,3196,3750,3751,3752,2474,3753,3754],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-toys","category-technology-and-science","category-virushead","tag-akismet","tag-bad-behavior","tag-peters-custom-anti-spam","tag-plugins","tag-recent-comments-list","tag-seabeast-theme","tag-simple-tagging","tag-wordpress-plugins","tag-wp","tag-wp-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}