Category Archives: site

maintenance, additions, anything about running this site

Plugin Advice

Posted on Thursday 23 June 2011 by cherylcolan

I don’t think Dr. Oblivion (wherever he may be) or Jim Groom mentioned  having a plugin to back up your WordPress database. Ideally you’ll want to know how to do it via your cPanel or php mySQL but the wp-db-backup … Continue reading →

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Bleepity Bleep Booop

Posted on Thursday 23 June 2011 by cherylcolan

In case you’re confused by the post title, that’s me swearing. Back in April sometime, this site suffered one of those evil eval(base64_decode hacks. I cleaned up as best I could but today I realized I had left some of … Continue reading →

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whole lotta mess up in here

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 by cherylcolan

Yeah, my site is a wreck. I’ve hoped to redesign it every summer since I launched but I’ve let other gigs get in the way. My theme isn’t even widget-aware. I had to manually edit the sidebar.php file to insert … Continue reading →

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Why Watch Server Stats?

Posted on Friday 3 August 2007 by cherylcolan

There are tons of reasons to pay attention to your server stats, but today’s favorite is this: Your server stats can alert you the myriad ways that bad people are trying to hack into your site and use it for … Continue reading →

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Fixed

Posted on Tuesday 19 June 2007 by cherylcolan

So, during Pixelodeon, I intended to movlog here, but instead I had to set up Cherylodeon, because Blip.tv couldn’t auto-post to my WordPress blog. Last night some old dog wrote about having the same problem with Flickr. So I started … Continue reading →

Posted in Blip.tv, blog, blogging, Flickr, site, WordPress | 2 Comments