WindyWeather photo site has been running CPG 1.4.x for quite some time and it seemed time to update the site. So after a 1.5GB download of the database [85MB of SQL], all the old code in case the new one failed, and the albums that I had not backed up before, and then testing the new version on a test server, the photo site is now running the latest. Whew. That only took 5 hours.

BTW, I also updated WordPress, after a complete backup of the database in two different ways. That took about 1/2 hour since WordPress does an in-place backup, which Coppermine does not support.

Sigh.

The CPG theme has changed because the old theme I modified did not work well on the new CPG. I may get around to getting a darker theme going sometime, but it is apparently so difficult to get CPG themes to work that there are very few out there.

Also you may notice two things about my CPG site:

1. I have turned off registrations. I did this a while ago to keep the bots from signing up users. It took me about 1/2 hour to delete the 46 pages of bogus users that had accumulated over the years. Also anybody that had not visited the site in 2 years, and wasn’t a friend, was deleted from the user list. Contact me if you want access.
2. The GoStats logo appears at the bottom of the site. I added a little link to GoStats to keep track of who is visiting the site. This is way better than the link tracking that CPG provides. At some point I may turn off the CPG tracking since it is now about 1/2 of the database for the 7000 tracking records.

Cheers,

- windy

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Comments have been disabled for a very long time on this site due to spam. I’m going to try a new Captcha plugin called reCAPTCHA to stem the tide of spam. Here goes a comment enabled post, which will be hidden from the main page. The bots should find it, but not be able to leave comments. We’ll see.

The WP-Cumulus plug-in displays a tag / topic cloud using flash. Here we go:

Is that cool or what??

I didn’t have any tags assigned, but it’s willing to cloud my topics, er Categories. So no worries.

Enjoy,

Windy

Category Display

Here is the category display from the joomla database.

Here are some avatars.

I updated the theme to Nebula 3.0 by Gx3. I was using a previous modified version of the same theme before. The new theme has some advantages like the expandable sections. Still not widget savvy though apparently. I need to update this theme to support the series plugin.

Cheers

- windy

I’ve just upgraded WordPress on my site to the latest. If you notice any problems, please let me know at djduffy at Windyweather dot net.

There are many advantages, including better management pages and many other enhancements. Also I look forward to “automatic upgrades” which are supported in recent releases. As I installed this upgrade, I automatically upgraded several of the plug-ins whose sites support this automatic upgrade feature.

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The WindyWeather site is now up on Lunar Pages. After being with Godaddy for several years, the performance began to get slower and slower. It was taking literally minutes to post an article on WordPress. After an hour with Godaddy support and no satisfaction for why performance was so bad, I looked for other hosting services. (more…)

Script of Act II Macbeth
The play by William Shakespeare

Introduction
This section contains the script of Act II of Macbeth the play by William Shakespeare. The enduring works of William Shakespeare feature many famous and well loved characters. Make a note of any unusual words that you encounter whilst reading the script of Macbeth and check their definition in the Shakespeare Dictionary The script of Macbeth is extremely long. To reduce the time to load the script of the play, and for ease in accessing specific sections of the script, we have separated the text of Macbeth into Acts. Please click Macbeth Script to access further Acts.

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Script of Act I Macbeth
The play by William Shakespeare

Introduction
This section contains the script of Act I of Macbeth the play by William Shakespeare. The enduring works of William Shakespeare feature many famous and well loved characters. Make a note of any unusual words that you encounter whilst reading the script of Macbeth and check their definition in the Shakespeare Dictionary The script of Macbeth is extremely long. To reduce the time to load the script of the play, and for ease in accessing specific sections of the script, we have separated the text of Macbeth into Acts. Please click Macbeth Script to access further Acts.
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On 6 April 2008, this site, when it was on another hosting service, was attacked and an <iFrame tag appended to every php and html file on the site. The <iFrame tag pointed back to the following domains:

cdpuvbhfzz(dot)com
ccfelomvhk(dot)com

The attack was apparently perpetrated because two php.ini parameters were left that allow exploits:
allow_url_fopen = on
register_globals = on

These settings have now been changed to OFF.
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This is a test of embedded flash in a WP page.

This is more text in the post after the Flash.

And yet more text in Bold.

The key to having this work without messing up the WP theme is to surround the object tag in a div tag.

Google has help and services for Webmasters. Among the things they provide and encourage are sitemaps. However, it’s not as complex as it all seems. WordPress and coppermine, and many other CMSs have scripts that generate these sitemaps. There are tools that run from your computer too, but these can’t know the internal structure of the site database, and so they are inefficient or don’t work for dynamic sites like WordPress and Coppermine.

Sitemaps tell google about the content of sites that have dynamic content. You can find out more about services for Webmasters at google. You will need to log into an account to see these pages, but accounts are free.

You will want to look at this page to find plugins or programs to build sitemaps for your site. For example, there is a plugin for WordPress to build sitemaps – WordPress Sitemap Plug-in.

There is also a php file to build sitemaps for Coppermine.

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I’ve upgraded the site to WordPress 2.x. All the features, the theme and plug-in’s were tested on a standalone linux system before the switch on the main site.
Enjoy. Although you shouldn’t see any difference at all.

d

Here’s a post that trackback’s the first post.

Here is the first post.

What are these trackback links anyway.

A post in a blog 1 that refers to a post in blog 2 automatically gets a link in the post in blog 2. Does that make sense? The cross links show up as comments in the referring posts.

Here are some articles to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/03/what_is_trackback_part_one/

Here’s another post in this blog: Trackback Two

First in a series of test posts to test the series plugin.
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