Known spammer IP addresses
Saturday, 20. September 2008 20:08 - daniel - Blogs - 0 Comments
These IP addresses were spamming stopmetal.de for the last few days. I may want to add the to your blacklist too.
66.232.96.0/19 noc4hosts.com
195.190.13.0/24 steephost.com
66.197.128.0/17 hostnoc.net
124.217.224.0/18 piradius.net
200.63.42.136 panamaserver.com
58.65.232.0/21 hostfresh.com
Minor tweaks
Friday, 25. July 2008 2:55 - daniel - Blogs - 1 Comment
I tweaked a few things here and there. For example
- Trackbacks should work again.
- Gravatars are available now. I'll probably release the sourcecode for this soon.
- I made a few bugfixes behind the curtains, like a new version of the spaw editor and file uploads finally work again.
- I'm currently working on a new release candidate for yabs, the software that powers this site. Maybe you'll see a update soon, but don't count on it.
Akismet and persistent connections
Sunday, 24. February 2008 22:10 - daniel - Blogs - 0 Comments
The delays that sometimes occurred when submitting comments are apparently caused by an incorrect implementation of an HTTP/1.1 socket in the Aksimet PHP5 class.
The class didn't send a Connection: Close header to the Akismet server. The Server was keeping the connection open and delayed future request. By either switching to HTTP/1.0 (doesn't support persistent connections) or sending a Connection: Close header that problem is solved.
This also affected my Akismet plugin for yabs. There is already a updated version online, just override the old files and upgrade in the admin panel.
Akismet 1.0.2
Thanks to Jan who found this problem.
Wordpress and permalinks without mod_rewrite
Thursday, 6. September 2007 22:21 - daniel - Blogs - 2 Comments
Even if your webhost doesn't let you use mod_rewrite, you can get nice URL with a simple hack. Mosty webhosts let you configure custom error pages. That means, if a visitors tries to access a page that doesn't exist, you can show him your special 404 page instead of the apache default.
We will use this for our permalinks. If you enable permalinks and mod_rewrite doesn't work, all you'll see is a 404 page. We'll now create custom error handlers for 404 to display index.php instead. Every time a visitor opens a permalink, he will trigger this custom error handler and he'll see the correct site. Wordpress doesn't care, if mod_rewrite or our custom error handler has redirected this user.
All you need to do is this:
Switch Wordpress to your preferred permalink structure.
Either write this into your .htaccess file (and delete everything that was in there):
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
ErrorDocument 403 /index.php
ErrorDocument 401 /index.php
or, if you have a management panel like confixx or syscp, you can configure error documents there:
You should add this to your index.php file, right after the <?php in a new line
header( 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK' );
Some plug-ins
Sunday, 12. August 2007 17:55 - daniel - Blogs - 1 Comment
I just released yabs 0.8.0beta4 and here is the comment location plug-in as promised.
comment_country
The plug-ins tries to guess from witch country a comment is coming from. It checks hostip.info for the IP and if hostip.info doesn't know the domain, it checks the hostname for the TLD code.
Download
akismet
Akismet.com is a anti spam service. Comments will be send to the aksimet.com server for checking and if the comments contain spam, they will be send to moderation. You need a akismet API key from wordpress.com for this to work.
Download
danis_gallery
Gallery plug-in, featuring asynchronous uploads and lightbox for displaying.
Download
danis_gallery_widget
Add-on for danis_gallery. It displays a random image in the sidebar. Requires danis_gallery
Download
example
Example plug-in, shows how to program filters, hooks and widgets.
Download
You can find all of them here.