http://boakes.org nice of you to drop by. tea? Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:22:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://boakes.org/wordcampuk-breaks-even/ http://boakes.org/wordcampuk-breaks-even/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:49:14 +0000 Rich wordcamp wordcampuk wordpress http://boakes.org/?p=756 http://boakes.org/wordcampuk-breaks-even/feed/ http://boakes.org/wordcamp-uk/ http://boakes.org/wordcamp-uk/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 11:48:27 +0000 Rich wordcampuk wordpress http://boakes.org/?p=751 http://boakes.org/wordcamp-uk/feed/ http://boakes.org/b0rked/ http://boakes.org/b0rked/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:43:07 +0000 Rich hit approximately 25000 trackback spam messages fielded 7000 trackback requests trackback access log 1 24447 update 5 helped reduce the load too the sooner blame my helpfully rotated log files automatic htaccess level banning working home www boakes org logs grep c reduced the load average http://boakes.org/?p=740 http://boakes.org/b0rked/feed/ http://boakes.org/worst-offenders-for-wordpress-25/ http://boakes.org/worst-offenders-for-wordpress-25/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:26:55 +0000 Rich spam anti spam akismet wordpress worst offenders http://boakes.org/?p=738 http://boakes.org/worst-offenders-for-wordpress-25/feed/ http://boakes.org/akismet-billion/ http://boakes.org/akismet-billion/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:12:05 +0000 Rich akismet billion automattic spam anti spam comment spam http://boakes.org/akismet-billion/ Warning: apache_lookup_uri() [function.apache-lookup-uri]: Unable to include '/pics/2005/automattic/automattic' - error finding URI in /home/www/boakes.org/htdocs/mods/plugins/boakes-depicticon.php on line 65
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The plugin system on BBPress is still rather rudimentary (you create a folder called “my-plugins”) and any php that exists therein is considered to be an activated plugin. The good news here is, that (a) it works and (b) it’s so similar to the WordPress that many plugins will magically work without modification. [...]]]> http://boakes.org/analytics-bbpress/feed/ http://boakes.org/bbpress-released/ http://boakes.org/bbpress-released/#comments Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:25:58 +0000 Rich BBPress WordPress Forum Software Automattic Akismet http://boakes.org/bbpress-released/ http://boakes.org/bbpress-released/feed/