{"id":442,"date":"2007-11-06T11:22:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/11\/06\/upgrade-blues\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T05:52:14","slug":"upgrade-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/upgrade-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a\u00a0few things related to the upgrade to 2.3.1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been getting hammered by comment spam for the past couple of months, and MadMan advised me to install Akismet and Bad Behavior. Akismet was already installed, so I installed Bad Behavior.<br \/>\nBad Behavior is a WordPress plugin which detects all incoming comments and tracbacks, and checks them against a blacklist of spammers. If there&#8217;s a blacklist match, it just serves up a 403 page to the spambot. Enthused, I set it to strict mode.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, all IP addresses assigned by Reliance Infocom (including mine) are on a spam blacklist. As a result, <em>I<\/em> couldn&#8217;t write comments. Or create new posts. What makes it really fun is that Bad Behavior doesn&#8217;t allow blacklisted IPs to do <em>anything<\/em> that requires submitting a form &#8211; including turning strict mode off. So I was locked out of my own blog until Madhu kindly logged in for me and turned strict mode off.<\/li>\n<li>The blogroll in the left sidebar has the white background only in the lower half. I will have to fix this by editing the .gif background file. This will require much careful fiddling about in Paint.<\/li>\n<li>The blogroll also no longer contains the link category headings (though links are still <em>sorted<\/em> by category). I&#8217;ll probably be able to restore the headings by mucking about a little with the PHP. This needs to be done at leisure, with enough time to debug, so it may not happen for a while. Bear with me until then.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;Email Aadisht&#8217; page had stopped working because I accidentally deleted my contact form plugin. It&#8217;s working again now.<\/li>\n<li>The del.icio.us links widget will be back again soon. Soon = tonight if I get home early enough and fresh enough. Otherwise, by Thursday.<\/li>\n<li>Tags!<\/li>\n<li>The new theme lets you hide the widgets by clicking on the green circle. This is stupendous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a\u00a0few things related to the upgrade to 2.3.1. I&#8217;ve been getting hammered by comment spam for the past couple of months, and MadMan advised me to install Akismet and Bad Behavior. Akismet was already installed, so I installed Bad Behavior. Bad Behavior is a WordPress plugin which detects all incoming comments and tracbacks, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,216,655,1682,2241,2445],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","tag-64","tag-bad-behavior","tag-design","tag-plugins","tag-theme","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-78","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}