Sun 25 Sep 2005
Last December I started playing around with WordPress software as an alternative to using Blogger.com to produce this blog. Shortly after I began, comment spammers made it impossible to keep the blog open, so I gave up.
Inspired recently by Rob, I downloaded and installed the latest version of WordPress and found it can do what I want. I first installed a comment spam blocker, Spam Karma 2 to keep the blog-scum away. Next I downloaded a few themes which can now be swapped out with a single mouse click.
Best of all, the new version allows publishing multiple pages and multiple blogs. I’m sure the old version did, too, but I never learned how.
It won’t be long before I can switch to WordPress. In the mean time, take a look at the development blog. I’ll swap out the themes every few days to see what looks good.
September 26th, 2005 at 2:49 am
cool. i can’t leave a comment on the dev blog becuase it says I have to log in. i’m not sure what id and password it’s looking for.
September 26th, 2005 at 10:15 am
I set it so that you must login before leaving a comment – because of all the spam comments I had before.
But if doing that was unclear to you, then I am sure it will be unclear to 99% of everyone else.
I just tried to set it so anyone can comment, but I can’t seem to find the magic check box.
In the mean time, you can register as a user with this blog from that login screen. You create your own userid and password. That is a total pain, especially since it would only work for this blog.