Blog v1.1

Written by Tudor Vlad on Tuesday, 27 of February, 2007 at 22:18

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It’s been awhile since my last post. Since that I’ve been through a lot. And I learned a lot.

But enough with that, welcome to my improved blog. Although it’s not quite finished, I took my time to personalize it according to my taste. I hope you like it too.

I must say it was only now that I realized how powerful this Wordpress is. It is well designed, powerful, secure, extensible and easy. Real easy! My original decision to use WP due to cheaper hosting for PHP, although I would have preferred ASP, proved to be a great decision.

I setup this blog about 5 months ago. It was simple and quick, but I had assistance from a pro, my colleague Tudor. He really helped me configuring my anti-spam filter, i.e. a CAPTCHA plugin called AuthImage. This plugin worked well for about 4 months, but after that a lot of spam started to pass.

Because I really hate spam, I decided it was time to work on my blog. I searched for a new anti-spam solution and found it immediately on the Wordpress Support. Apparently CAPTCHA is no longer an efficient method to stop SPAM and an better solution would be to use BadBehaviour with the already installed plugin Akismet ( it comes with the default WP kit, all you need is a code from Wordpress ). The best thing about this solution is that it no longer requires for a check code from the user. An it works!

Another visible modification is the theme. I found this great theme called Fallseason. FallSeason^1.0 is a free, lightweight, tableless, fluid W3C-compliant WordPress Theme by Sadish Bala, based on a design by NodeThirtyThree. A little customization and voila.

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