Stressful Fun
Perhaps this is just me putting a negative spin on things, once again. But I can’t help but feel that fun things in life almost always come at cost, mostly, stress. Very much inspired by August, the holiday spirit in the air. It had me thinking, or rather, living myself. The excitement of a vacation, […]
One Thing Can Make A Difference
I was browsing through archives the other day, looking for some inspiration, until I stumbled across the very first post I’d ever written. I can vaguely remember it now. I’d spent a few weeks getting things online, having a domain set-up – a free one at the time, mapping it to the right place. I […]
…And Relax
It’s certainly been a fair few weeks since I last posted something, to leave it so long was certainly not the plan! Surprisingly, I appear to be busy with… nothing. A strange scenario, is something I’m pretty certain on. Swiftly moving on, I though I’d give you a quick recap of what I’ve actually been […]
You’re Always On The Internet
“You’re always on Twitter”, “You Tweet too much” “You’re a Twitter addict”, phrases I hear on a regular basis, perhaps too regular in fact. But, all too true. I am on Twitter a lot of the time. My reasoning excuse for it, as follows. You see, when I was growing up through my teen years, […]
Reduced Spam Comments: Part Two
Last week I posted about how to remove the URL field in WordPress, to (hopefully) reduce the number of Spam comments. Now this worked for me, the first few days spam was certainly reduced. Then it started to pick up again, and I’d noticed something odd. The spam comments had URLs in them1! Giving me […]
Reduce Spam Comments
A few weeks back now, I disabled the ability for social login on my comments. As briefly touched upon, they used an iFrame, which wasn’t exactly great from a performance side of things, especially those on mobile. However, since doing so, that resulted in the default WordPress comments, which sadly resulted in an increment in […]
Related Posts by Tags
I’m either noticing it more, or it’s becoming more common… that “thing” being “Related Posts”. You can see it on a few blogs these days, you reach the end of an article to be prompted by a list of posts which are (supposedly) similar to what you’ve just read. A pretty nifty feature. In fact, […]
A Lost Meaning
The theme of Easter is definitely around this weekend, I’m sure for a handful of people it’s for the four-day weekend they’re getting too. Other’s, probably the chocolate. Who doesn’t love an excuse to love chocolate? But the reason it should be, is religion. Like Christmas, Easter is a religious event. Sadly though, I feel […]
Not So Social Comments
A couple of days ago I switched over comments (more comment enhancements to come soon!), meaning the ability to login via social networks was removed. I won’t go into details about why I did this (It used an iframe – not good for performance!). Admittedly since doing this spam has increased… but it’s being caught […]