I’m experimenting with an advertisement. This is the idea:
- Earn enough money to pay for the traffic and hosting (also see here)
- Place only the related ads
- Keep them as unobtrusive but yet visible as possible
Your suggestions are very welcome.
Category: LikeRa.Com
Comments RSS and AntiSPAM
- Comments RSS feed is working again! It was wp-sticky what broke it. Works fine with v1.10. Yooooohhhoooooo!!!!! Please, subscribe again!
- I’ve implemented a couple of AntiSPAM precaution measures. Let me know if anything is broken.
User registration is broken
The WordPress upgrade to v2.3 has broken the user registration. It does not send username/password back. Please drop me an e-mail (likera on likera.com) and I’ll send you your temporary password manually.
Update 31 Oct, 23:31: The problem has been fixed by the latest upgrade. If you tried to register before the upgrade but did not receive the password by mail, please drop me a mail and I’ll set it manually.
RSS for comments does not work
Don’t know why… Tried everything. It’s definitely not a theme related problem ( I tried the default one with the same result). Neither does it look like a plugin incompatibility (disabled them one by one to no avail) :-\
Photobucket bans plugs
Photobucket service found photos of some plugs violating its policy. I’m going through the site and replacing the broken images. Ridiculous… You can buy this stuff at “Media-Markt” nowadays! Did you know? Vibrators of various forms, colours and power! In the same section as tooth brushes! But publishing photos of them is prohibited…
It reminds me that famous double moral. In some places you can be pornofilmed since you’re 16, but can’t watch the films until you’re 21.
I wonder what’s gonna happen with the rest of the images…
WordPress upgrade
I will be upgrading WordPress today. During the upgrade no blogs will be reachable.
Update Sep 26 00:37. Upgraded!
Update Sep 26 01:25. The tagging is not working correctly. Need to update the theme files. Tomorrow …
Update Sep 26 10:47. Looks like the registration does not work. Whistle here if you have problems.
Update Sep 26 12:16. WordPress can’t send mail. This is why the registration does not work. Investigating … I can set the passwords manually, though.
Update Sep 26 14:52. WordPress DOES send mail, but apparently my hoster causes some delays. The problem is that wordpress (like p-wee pointed out, many thanks to him!) send empty messages without password in them. If you need to activate your account just send me an email and I’ll set your password manually. Investigating further …
Update Sep 26 21:40. The Tags and the Tags Cloud have been fixed!
What’s going on?
- Developing and testing non-frame fully “DIV” version of the site with DHTML menu (I’m not sure if I replace frames with DIVs’, though. Too much trouble … )
- Reformatting all documents to fully conform new web-design concept
- Preparing WordPress (Blog software) for the upgrade on Monday
Donations are welcome
After a lot of hesitation and mental speculations the pragmatic part of me has taken over. I gave up and added the “Donate” section. I’ve started thinking of donations since Aurora’s question “Why do I need it [the site]?”. My thoughts returned when my site was taken off the air because of the enormous traffic.
Despite lots of new ideas and huge amount of old materials the motivation is sinking. I can’t keep up with coding, upgrading, processing, publishing, composing, promoting, maintaining, paying, answering, studying, following discussions and working full-time to pay for all the mentioned hassle.
Being perfectionist? Getting old? Pissed off? Trying to bite what I can’t swallow? Dunno… Probably, like Aurora, I need support and encouragement to keep posting and updating frequently enough…
Off to get some sleep…
Added a security code for comments
The amount of spam is growing with every hour, so I had to implement a security code. Just like on many other public blog-sites.
Please accept my apologies for any possible inconvenience.
Update: 18 Sep 13:51. Didn’t help. Disabled.
Update: 18 Sep 23:11. Fixed the script. The comments are allowed again.
Multilingual plug-in
I’m testing a new multilingual plug-in called Polyglot. It allows posting in several languages (not that I speak any…) what makes blogging funnier but more time consuming. Some things are not properly tuned and may look plainly broken (like RSS). But I’m working on that.