If you are a WordPress Theme Creator who offers free themes from your website, I warn you there is a snake in our little corner of the web. I won’t give the asshat a link but you should check to see if any of the themes you’ve worked so hard to create are being used [...]

Even with the limits imposed by WordPress on the best xhtml/css source ordered negative margin layouts, there is still a lot you can do to customize a WordPress Theme. Whether you make your columns LOOK like columns, or instead box out the side column lists by adding borders to all sides, whether you round the [...]

I am a happy camper. Not only has the deluge of comment spams slowed to a very manageable trickle, but the very few that do come in go into moderation where I can deal with them properly. This means that I’m down to a nice 10 or so personal and business emails in my mailbox [...]

And despite rumors that it sometimes has that effect, Bad Behavior hasn’t melted down my host’s server, nor have I gotten any Montastic notices about server outages. Bad Behavior isn’t blocking 100%, but it is down to around 5 a day, from the over 100 it was, so that’s definitely a huge improvement. I’m still [...]

Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer let 49 comment spams through overnight, despite the “default list” being beefed up considerably by the accumulated list of IP numbers and domains I’d added to it. Didn’t matter. Not only that, but some of the comments were from IP numbers on the list, or from keywords on the list, so that [...]