Thu Tu’s Blog

I decided to join the Do Follow movement, which is… the opposite of the No Follow movement. The nofollow attribute was intended to discourage comment spammers by telling search engines not to trust links posted by visitors in blogs and forums. However, the spam problem has not gotten any better.
Despite the relentless efforts by spammers [...]

I installed the Search Everywhere Plugin in the hopes of enabling Wordpress search to find posts that have been tagged with Jerome Keywords Plugin. Alas, it didn’t have that capability built-in, nor could I find an available solution, so I tweaked the Search Everywhere code to search tags for results. I based the code modifications [...]

I’ve been using Akismet since I started using Wordpress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]

After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my Wordpress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant.
Cons to using or switching to pretty urls

I like the flexibility [...]

As much as I love the functionality of the Google Blog Bar in my blog, there is a limitation. Since my code to add the Blog Bar uses the post’s category for the keyword search, if the category is something like “Miscellaneous Musings/Moments“, there will be no results because the Blog Bar searches through the [...]

I’ve installed a Wordpress plugin that will switch the theme to a Wii Friendly theme when the user-agent is Wii. Thanks to Winksite for the Wordpress Wii Edition plugin.

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.
But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.
Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment [...]