Dave’s Ramblings

I saw this advert on another site and decided to give it a shot… afterall what could it hurt?

My results… signed up and was approved in a day, and within 3 weeks earned my first paid link! Granted no tremendous windfall, but hey someone willing to pay me $25 a month per link just to have a text link on one of my PR5 blogs? In a month my domain registration and annual hosting fees are paid??!!?? Now the rest of the year it puts a little extra jingle in my pocket each month. It obviously won’t earn you a shiny new car, but an extra $100 a month in your pocket for a snippet of PHP code and a few outbound links seems to be pretty fair to me.

Time to start sprucing up a few more site and submit them now that my doubts have been lifted.

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While optimizing my databases and such I noticed that I had been making a fatal mistake with my WordPress database; marking comments as 'spam' through the comments moderation panel. This only marks the comment_approved feild in the row for that comment in the wp_comments table from '0' to 'spam'.

In over a year I'd accumilated over 12K rows just for spam that needed to be parsed each time a particular post/page was to be displayed, and dragging down the performance of my blog. Instead of marking spam as such, deleting them completely seems to be the route to take.

A quick query to run against your database in a utility such as phpMyAdmin follows to purge the tables of those entries for you;

Some tweaking may be needed far your particular setup, I'll be submitting this as a feature request to the kind folks at WordPress or if time permits creating a quick and dirty plugin.

Just testing a new code hi-lighter plugin before posting any more complex code snippets.

Finally found one that actually handles the code funtion properly with WP 2.0.2! The iG:Syntax Hiliter works flawlessly

With some114 or so bugfixes for version 2.0.0 the grab the latest version from Wordpress.

See what the holidays and such can do to time...Finally upgraded WordPress (probably the best blogging software out there today!) to version 2.0, what the heck it's only been out for 28 days now.  Normally I like to update things as quickly as possible, but as this upgrade does not address any security issues, it mostly cosmetic for background functions, combining everything into a fully intergrated Create a Post function makes things a simpler and with a 'rich text' GUI type interface that meansno more goofing around with multiple page loads to import images and such will make this blog a bit more enjoyable to write posts.. 

If you are still running 1.5 or older, I highly recommend updating to the lastest version.  The upgrade path is painless as always, upload the files and run the update script and your flying again. 

Additional features now intergrated tools like comment spam prevention will be interesting to see how well they function. I quickly tire of deleting 40+ spammy comments a day.