Woooo hooo! Jim and I gave each other a high speed connection for Christmas. It’s now installed, and I can now surf other knit blogs! (Many load incredibly slowly on modem. 
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I subscribed to “blogroll” and I’ve been clicking to add sites to my blog roll; visitors will notice blogs references appearing haphazardly over the next week. Right now, I’m taking some time to visit randomly. I added a random option to all my knit rings. Now, I scrolled to the bottom of my blog, and click the “random” option. It hit and miss, but it beats, hitting “next” visiting a blog, then trying to find the ring button!
I’m discovering at least 50% of “knitting” have less than 10% knitting content or don’t post regularly. I’ve decided my policy for my knitting site blog roll is this: I find a blog that is posting a large percentage of knitting content right now, and which loads reasonably quickly, I’ll add it to my blog roll. I like pictures, discussions of techniques, patterns and yarn. Double bonus points for mentioning machine knitting! I’ll reorganize later.
Some visitors will notice a few other new things. I installed a “recent comments” and a “recent posts” links. These use Word-Press plug-ins, which I googled to find. I also installed WordPress plug-in to filter spam. It’s called called “hashcash” . This should make it very difficult for spambots to post. Since the spam filter seems to work, I’ll be rolling back my “autoclose comments” to 30 days. I also need to reduce the number of words in my spam words list. It previously included “craps” (because many spam messages advertise gambling) Unfortunately, “scraps” contains the string “craps”. Yep, I said “scraps of yarn” and was moderated. Sigh….
If your comment is moderated, I apologize! I check my spam list to find the culprit every time some normal comment is moderated.
That’s all for this blog about blogging. Back to our regularly scheduled knitting content.
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I use WordPress as well and will look into the “hashcash” but you mentioned something about an autoclose comments. Is that also a plug in, or is it just a part of WordPress? I haven’t found it. But, I’m not well versed in PHP. Also, is there a trick for your subcategoried to display as they should, under their parents? When I’ve set up a subcategory it is just appearing in alpha order even though it is a subcategory. I’m WordPress challenged I guess…
Comment by Kristi (1 comments.) — 1/20/2005 @ 12:27 pm
Hi Kristy,
autoclose comments is not, officially, a plug in. It’s a php file, and you put it in the folder where you keep all your blog software. (Mine is ../blog as you can see from my directory name above.)
I named my first version “manualClose.php” and put a link to my version in my links. (I later changed the date and named it manualClose30.php I did that because I was afraid I was goofing stuff up kept the original as back up :).)
I “discovered” the subcategories are “just there” in wordpress. Go look at your “categories” edit one and pull down some menus. You’ll see!
Comment by lucia — 1/20/2005 @ 12:38 pm