Oct 4
Eppur si muove
If you can see this, I have moved to new hosting for this website. Full writeup coming later, given all the agonising I did about this: tl;dr version is “wordpress, with tsohost.co.uk, plus a bunch of static stuff”. Also: DNS is hassle, hosting is hassle, converting fifteen old versions of documents to something modern is hassle, and I am glad it is now done.
Now is when you all complain about the theme (as is traditional), but I like it. More importantly: advise me, O Internet, on WordPress plugins that I should be running.
4 thoughts on “Eppur si muove”
Excellent Nothing wrong with pictures of cake! Theme is clear, although font looks a bit scratchy on this monitor.
I always run NoSpamNX and Askimet and have almost no problems with spam comments, either rejections of legitimate one (not that I get that many comments anyway to judge) or bad apples getting through. I expect the first is possibly redundant with the latter but I don’t care: I just install them both and cheer. Also I don’t have to have the annoying thing with the drunken letters.
…or use moderation.
Stuff I have installed on Aquarionics, and reasons why you might find it useful:
FeedBurner FeedSmith – Turns RSS feeds into Feedburner feeds, which caches them better.
Akismet – Spam is horrid
Google Analytics Dashboard – Spark graphs on the dashboard for recent post hit rates
Wordbooker – Posts entries to a Facebook page and then syncs comments made on that page back to your site.
Super Cache – Because WP is not good at load.
I keep it simple with just Akismet and WP-super cache. ‘Advanced excerpts’ is good if you want more HTML allowed in your listings.