I haven’t posted a maintenance update since December it looks like. I don’t know what all I’ve changed before today, but here is what I did today:
- Updated Akismet to 2.1.6
- Akismet’s blocked over 5,500 spam comments and counting.
- Updated Google’s Sitemap Generator to 3.1.0.1
- Updated Simple Tags to 1.5.6
- Deleted several spam user accounts. I have no idea why they keep getting created so often, they aren’t leaving comments or spam anywhere.
- Added Feedburner site tracking code into posts
- Removed the feedburner redirection link from the titles in the rss feed
- Changed the feedburner location to http://feeds.thesh17.com/TheSh17
- Our #1 referring search term is “bioshock”
- Fixed a few bugs with the website loading
TheSh17 dot com and Zombiebait are both in need of some work. Anyone willing to help out? Send an email to johntash [at] gmail.com or leave a comment here.
posted by johntash at
1:40 am
Not much to write this time.
Wordpress has been updated to Version 2.3.1.
There was quite a few bugs fixed, but among them were:
- Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
their WordPress Address
Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
Link importer fixes
Oh and www.thesh17.com was moved to a new server recently. It really is a lot quicker now, so if you notice any problems. Post a comment here and let me know.
posted by johntash at
5:17 pm
I checked Google’s Webmaster Tools and saw a lot of 404 errors dealing with */Unknown
I have my 404 error page set up to email me whenever it gets hit and there’s always tons of
favicon.ico errors so I finally figured out the solution.
There’s a lot of 404 errors that look like this : “http://www.thesh17.com/wp/2007/04/17/hot-fuzz-from-the-people-who-made-shaun-of-the-dead/feed:http://www.thesh17.com/comments/feed/“
The following pages were reported as not being reachable but work fine now.
There’s 272 urls being restricted by the
robots.txt file and it cut my supplementary indexed pages down a lot. There’s 283 pages
indexed by Google now.
Disabled the Shoutbox on the sidebar.
Removed the tag and category pages from the sitemap.xml file since they were being blocked by robots.txt anyway.
Disabled the Text Link Ads plugin.
Removed the Vizu Poll in the sidebar.
There’s some other things I did too, but I was bored and felt like listing these.
posted by johntash at
3:00 pm
- I signed up for and started adding Text Link Ads to thesh17
- Installed the beer-me plugin.
- It’ll show a link at the bottom of every post to buy us beer. It’s better than asking for donations, right? A beer a day keeps thesh17.com running
- Signed up for the AdGridNetwork
- If it doesn’t bring any traffic to thesh17, I’ll probably remove it..
- It’s at the bottom of the sidebar. Yell at me if you don’t like it.
- DreamHost moved www.thesh17.com to a new host with less load so it shouldn’t take 5+ seconds to load the main page anymore.
- Our forums are getting filled with spam.
- I updated wordpress to 2.2 a few days ago.
- I changed a lot of things with the site’s design and code, but it’s still basically broke in anything other than firefox. I’ll give somebody a dollar to fix it.
- (edit)Fixed a few 404 errors with the category links and changed all of the category urls(not the tags)
- (edit)Changed the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files
posted by johntash at
8:32 pm
