Spam

Michael Dale

Argh. Too much spam is getting through again; even with Akismet. So I'm in the process of writing a new spam class. The aim is to build a comment score (similar to email spam filtering programs) based on the following:

• Email Address/Name/Website


• Comment Body (number of links etc)


• If the user is registered


• If the user has successfully posted a comment before


• white and black lists


• response from akismet


• how old and how many comments a post has

So hopefully I can cut down the spam.

Bluetrait Blog or Software?

Michael Dale

I suspect trying to have both a blog called Bluetrait and a piece of blog software called Bluetrait is a bad idea...

Bluetrait Wish List

Michael Dale

Things I'd like to add:

• gettext


• better plugin support (add_task, update checker, bluetrait version checking)


• categories


• upgrades to event management


• upgrades to spam system


• full UTF-8


• per-user time zone support


• caching


• faster/smaller

PHP 5.2

Michael Dale

Sorry I broke the server for a bit while upgrading to PHP 5.2. It is all working now. :)


Nup it is still a bit broken. *goes to fix*.

Bluetrait 0.4.9

Michael Dale

Bluetrait 0.4.9 is now out. This version provides some bug fixes over BETA 1 (Think of it as BETA 1 Release 2).


The following have been fixed from BETA 1:

• If upgrading from an old version, the version number in the database is not changed with the upgrade. An error message is triggered saying that the upgrade failed.


• Upgrade will not detect version 0.4.7 as a valid upgrade path.


• You are not be able to log in if the site is install in http://localhost/. You require a fully qualified domain name

The full change log can be seen here.

WordPress.com Golden Ticket

Michael Dale

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.

We're now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!

So yeah I thought I should give it a try, here. I don't plan on moving to it, but I will see how it runs (and hey, it's free bandwidth!).

EDIT: I've also got an invite, if anyone is interested.

bluetrait

Michael Dale

I haven't had the chance to work on the code for this site for a while, been pretty busy with uni. Anyway I have a week off (some Faculty of IT thing, not uni wide) which is cool. I did a touch up on some code tonight. I'm now running version 0.3.9 of my code. 0.3.8 added the following:

• Trackback support


• Newer version of FCKeditor (which still sucks a bit)


• Small fixes to work on unix systems


• Some backend support for PostgreSQL (although this will take sometime to complete)


• Some other general fixes

I'd like to release something at version 0.4.0 but we'll see. If I release it at that version it probably still isn't ready for general use. But I'll get there slowly.

Using wordpress

Michael Dale

If I were to use wordpress, I'd use this.

Much faster.

Wordpress 1.5

Michael Dale

Wordpress 1.5 has been released and can be downloaded here

WordPress 1.2.2 is available

Michael Dale

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WordPress 1.2.2 is now officially available for download. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues and is recommended for all 1.2 users. There have only been minor changes since the last release, so if you’re upgrading from any 1.2 version you can follow the normal upgrade instructions.

Here’s a few of the things we’ve addressed in this release:

* Login problems
* A security fix for a specific IIS/PHP combination
* Last-modified header bug
* An issue with the way site moves were handled
* Email encoding issues

Sorry this took longer to get out than some people thought it should, a couple of issues came up at the same time and we wanted to roll everything into one release so you wouldn’t have to upgrade multiple times. If you have any problems please let us know in the support forums.
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The download can be found here: http://wordpress.org/download/