Brief tech update
Tags: blog, geekiness, plugins, wordpress July 15th, 2010Urk. The spam comments have grown so numerous (hundreds in a few days) that I can no longer check them individually. Hope this doesn’t affect legit commenters here. (and I guess I ought to feel flattered at the attention).
The LJ crossposting is misbehaving a little–it sometimes turns itself off for no particular reason. Some fiddling will inevitably happen…
Also running into a few issues with scheduled posts, which might end up in double posts until I work out the system.
But, overall, the brand new WordPress seems spiffy (and I like the new colour scheme for the CMS backend. Much easier on the eyes).
Does anyone know if there are tools for managing tags and categories? Specifically, I wanted to merge several tags into one automatically, and/or migrate tags to categories. Any ways to do this which don’t involve massive amounts of love labour?
July 15th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I use ‘Merge Tags’ plugin to merge tags, it should work fine.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Jeremy put an Akismet spam filter on my Word Press blog and it blocks pretty much everything. You might want to check it out.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Ove: oooh, thanks so much! I didn’t know this existed.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Askimet was installed by default on my WordPress (though I had no idea wordpress picked up so much spam…). I was referring to what it was picking up (I came back from a 5-day break and it was, er, full of hundreds of spam comments, which is a world record). I’m always worried that it will tag stuff as spam mistakenly, so I used to check individual comments, but with 300+ of them, there’s no way I’m doing this…