August 24, 2007

Plugins and StumbleUpon

Filed under: About this blog,Blogging,WordPress — HDW @ 12:57 pm

I’m changing my WordPress Plugins around. It sholdn’t affect site use, but you never know. I’ve dropped the Challenge plugin for instance. While it was working well, it was a little annoying. Spam Karma is more than capable of filtering out what comment spam I get. Essentially I was using the Challenge as a diagnostic tool to help identify a PHP time-out error. It ruled out the problem I suspected, but I found the problem anyway, so that’s taken care of.

I’m trying out StumbleUpon. It’s essentially a search engine with a randomness factor in it. You tell it general categories of things you like, and on demand it shows you interesting content in those areas. For any of you already using it, I’ve added a Stumble it! button for your use. Use it!

I’ve been slowly making changes to my blog theme, you may have noticed, but probably not. Pretty minor stuff for the most part. Trying various things to streamline the blog design and make it function smoother. It’s actually working very well, but there is always room for improvement.

3 Comments »

  1. I was goofing with that for a while then got too busy to keep it up. Is there a smaller button than the one below? I could put one on my stuff I guess, but I don’t like the button much.

    Comment by jan — August 25, 2007 @ 1:21 am

  2. Yes there are. In fact I’ll be decreasing the size of this one shortly. I’m still playing around with it.

    Comment by HDW — August 25, 2007 @ 8:25 am

  3. The text in the link is the default text for this site, the image is now 15 pixels square. A little better, don’t you think?

    Comment by HDW — August 25, 2007 @ 8:48 am

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