I have modified my blog so that it now is my main page:
http://staff.washington.edu/dcox
rather than a sub page. The files still live in the sub page, so the old URLs should continue to work, but I think I will be ‘hiding’ where the files live from now on, as that will ease updates in the future.
This move was done by following the instructions that Jacob pointed out to me under the “options” menu of the workdpress admin pages.
I set up this blog 2 days ago. Yesterday I added content. Last night, I got SPAM comments. *sigh*
I do not (yet) want to set up user authentication for this blog, as I do not expect it to be a heavy site for back and forth communication. But I also do not want to get exciting emails that someone wants to chat with me about something I find interesting, only to find some exciting opportunity that is not fit for conversation in this venue.
As with most of my web based problems, I went and complained to Craig. He found the WordPress plugin for reCAPTCHA. I have been wanting to do something with reCAPTCHA for a while now, but I have not had a reason. reCAPTCHA is one of those “prove you are a human by tying in the word hidden in the squiggle above” things. The nice thing about reCAPTCHA is that it is doing a good deed every time you use it. The words that you type into it to prove your humanity are used to digitize old books that OCR software is having a problem with.
Everyone (but the spammers) wins.
The wordpress plugin can be found at:
This is a test to see if the ‘mobileadmin’ plugin will let me use an iPhone to make a fresh post to this blog. The default confit would not let me type into the content area. This plugin seems to do the trick though.
I am attempting to move over to a real blog environment. WordPress is the supported (sort of) solution here on campus. After spending an hour or so figuring out all the bits (mostly MySQL and PHPMyAdmin) I think I am up and running. Now I just have to figure out what blogging is really all about, and how I might use it. I hope this will help me to make more posts than I did with my last system. I will move the old content into this new environment as well, just so it is not lost.