Category: WordPress
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BackWPup “Free” – WordPress Backup Plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ Schedule complete automatic backups of your WordPress installation. Decide which content will be stored (Dropbox, S3…). This is the free version. I am using it to store a filesystem directory at my webspace provider’s site.
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I am so glad: the blogs on my self-hosted WordPress site seem to work smoothly again
This allows me again, to “publish” whatever it “needs” to publish i.e. whatever I “can’t” tell anyone personally, because “they” are not interested or because telling people “personally” is far too intrusive. That may sound sad, but I got used to it and I almost don’t care any more; and this way some of my…
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after some upgrading on my WordPress site I only got blank pages from my blogs and the entire site
This kind of trouble started during the weekend, outside the office hours of my web space provider. Once I called them (during their office hours), they provided me with the respective lines from the apache log, and I was able to get my problem solved rather quickly. The “jetpack” directory was rather incomplete – maybe…
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upgrading my selfhosted WordPress’s core to 3.9 – initially that was a mere disaster
After the upgrade my blogs were not available any longer. It looked like a serious database problem. I felt in disaster mode for days (because I went on a holiday and I did not immediately have the time to solve the issue). It wasn’t really a big deal, but I wasn’t able to find this…
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since I have activated “Jetpack Comments” with WordPress, I have had almost no SPAM comments, and those look mostly Swedish
Well, it looks Swedish to me, if there are a lot of “å” involved (well, it’s actually more than that) – but that may also be Norwegian or Danish. It’s still just a little peculiar. I wonder, whether I will find out one day, why it is like that.
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after installing “Jetpack by WordPress.com” and activating “Jetpack Comments” I have zero new SPAM comments on my blogs
I don’t really understand, how “Jetpack Comments” gets this SPAM protection done, but it’s effective. “Jetpack Comments” allows commenters to refer to their Twitter/Google+/Facebook identy, but they don’t enforce that. Still I just have zero new SPAM comments.
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my self-hosted WordPress adminstrative area tells me, that “future security updates will be applied automatically” – and I don’t like, that they don’t ask me
I’m impressed – in a rather negative way. I am not able to disable automatic “security updates” within my own WordPress installation. Of course, I like offers for security updates. But I want to be able to decide myself, whether and when to apply them.
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WP Tavern: What Is The Future Of Comments In WordPress?
http://wptavern.com/what-is-the-future-of-comments-in-wordpress http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Upon reading this article I installed Jetpack and activated Jetpack Comments, so that I can enjoy their authorization system for commenting on my blog articles. Update: I would really like to restrict commenting to users with valid registrations on the very social networks I accepted here for commenting. I hope that makes all this…
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WordPress: is there a “Publish+Close” button?
I would very much appreciate this, as I would really like to close an article w/o having to wait, until the entire publishing procedure in my browser tab has finally completed. Of course, this only applies to “successful completion”.
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how to prevent WordPress blog SPAM?
As long as I blogged with Blogger.com, blog SPAM never was a serious issue. Now with my self-hosted WordPress blog(s), that became a very serious issue all of a sudden. Yes, I should just not worry, and just reserve a small weekly (or maybe daily) time-window for moderating the comments – yes, I enforced strict…