Changes to the site

08 April 2005

I have been making a few changes to the site, mainly inspired by Toms Blog, where he has posted instructions on how to change Wordpress to display the sidebar differently when in the pages section. I emailed Tom when I noticed how he had it setup, I really liked the idea as it kind of gives you a seperate blog/personal website but all managed within the same CMS.

So, I am currently trying to put Toms suggestions into practise, I have the theory but have only managed to cock it up so far!

Also, I have added a short recommendation for Blacknight in the sidebar. People are always quick to setup hate websites and start net action campaigns when companies are doing bad things and providing bad service, but there aren’t enough people giving praise to good service. To that end I decided to give them a quick recommendation as they have been the best company I’ve dealt with via the net so far.

Comments

  1. David Smalley Says:
    April 08, 2005 at 07:29 PM I finally managed to implement Toms method for changing the sidebar when in the pages section of the site. Only problem is I lose the grey background for the sidebar, no matter, I will investigate further when I get time. I have also added a plugin to show the browser and OS being used by commenters, and a plugin to show the current/total visitors to the site.
  2. Tom Raftery Says:
    April 11, 2005 at 11:53 AM David, that's probably due to a missing closing div Tom
  3. Tom Raftery Says:
    April 11, 2005 at 11:55 AM Wohoo! I got a tricolour not a Union Jack on my comment this time. Ah!, The little things which can make me happy! Thanks, Tom.
  4. Tom Raftery Says:
    April 11, 2005 at 11:57 AM Btw, the last two comments triggered the Spam Karma captcha - this is a pain in the ass 'cos the code is hard to make out, and it is not as if the previous comments mentioned any suspicious terms of had links... I'd consider reducing the sensitivity of SK or even disabling it altogether. You shouldn't need it. Tom
  5. David Smalley Says:
    April 11, 2005 at 03:35 PM I've actually been finding SpamKarma working really well, it's never asked me for a captcha, but it is catching ~50 spam comments per week. I've reduced the sensitivity as most of the spam it catches is blatant.

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