I recently installed the WP-Cache plugin in order to reduce the server load due to PlausibleAccuracy’s massive (double digit!) traffic.  Because of this, it may take some time for the “Latest Post” and “Latest Comment” feeds on the front page to update.

This was more of a proactive move than a strictly necessary one.  I’d rather have things squared away on the back end just in case.

It was actually a really easy upgrade.  The new backend will take some getting used to.

Off to scour the wordpress codex and figure out how to program a mini latest comments feed for the front page.  I’ll probably edit this post when it’s done (hopefully in short order, unless I run into major problems).

EDIT: I think I’ve gotten a comment feed working on the front page.

Ever since John Wilbanks had emailed me to say that his comment didn’t show up on the site, I’ve been wondering what happened to it.  Today I sifted through the mass of crap in the Akismet filter that comes with Wordpress and found several comments (his as well as a couple from McDawg) that were erroneously getting tagged as spam.

If you have been bitten by the filter, or think your comments are disappearing into the ether, feel free to contact me and I’ll try to get it fixed.  Comments are my favorite part of blogging, and I don’t want anyone to feel slighted.

As long as I’m talking about site news, I should mention that Wordpress 2.5 is out now, and I’ll probably be updating the blog over the weekend.  Hopefully there will be limited interruption, but I’ve done enough upgrades to know better.  As part of the upgrade I plan on adding a “latest comment” feed to the front page, just below the “latest blog post” item that is currently there.

I’ve got a “Tumblelog” over at Tumblr.com as well as a Twitter account. I wanted to somehow include both of these in this blog without directly integrating them with the Wordpress blog itself. I decided that this should be possible to accomplish by using a Wordpress Page with a customized template.

Googling didn’t turn up any pre-made solutions, so I decided to hack something together myself. I’m posting it here in case anyone else might find it of use. (more…)

There are instructions for doing this on the web, but for some reason it took me just a bit of tweaking to get them to work in Wordpress 2.3.3.

First create a new page (in my case I called it “Home”) and include the static content. For this site it’s the welcome message you see on the front page.

Next create an empty page (I called it “Blog”)

Now go to Options–>Reading and make it look like this:

Now, http://yoursite.com/ will link to the static page, and http://yoursite.com/blog/ will go to the latest posts.