Entries Tagged as ‘WordPress’

10 May 2008

End of the road for Blogger?

For more than a year now I’ve had a blog on Blogger and one on WordPress, and have posted about equally on both. I found it hard to decide which platform I preferred, but this just about clinches it.
Tried to log in to my Blogger blog a few minutes ago, and got this charming message:

We’re [...]

10 April 2008

Where do visitors to this blog come from?

It’s quite interesting to see where visitors come from:

Num
Perc.
Country Name

168
38.27%
United States

123
28.02%
South Africa

30
6.83%
United Kingdom

22
5.01%
Unknown
-

22
5.01%
Australia

14
3.19%
Mauritius

9
2.05%
Canada

6
1.37%
Germany

5
1.14%
Romania

4
0.91%
Netherlands

3
0.68%
Greece

3
0.68%
India

2
0.46%
Belgium

2
0.46%
France

2
0.46%
Italy

2
0.46%
Philippines

2
0.46%
New Zealand

2
0.46%
Singapore

2
0.46%
Indonesia

On a previous occasion there was a surprisingly high proportion of visitors from Muslim countries. This time what is surprising is the relatively high proportion from a small country like Mauritius.
What is also interesting is that this blog (Khanya) gets a much [...]

7 March 2008

Something weird at WordPress?

Something weird seems to be going on at WordPress.
My blog statistics  for yesterday have disappeared, and comments that I’m sure were here yesterday have vanished, and the posts of the last few days are listed as if they had recently been edited. They don’t look as if they’ve been hacked, but some comments are gone.

12 February 2008

Anniversary of Khanya blog

The 13th February 2008 is the first anniversary of this blog.
Here are the statistics for its first year of operation:
Blog Stats
Total Views: 20,844
Best Day Ever: 176 — Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Views today: 142
Totals
Posts: 223
Comments: 476
Categories: 64
Tags: 621
Spam
Akismet has protected your site from 17,334 spam comments.
Some favourite posts
Here are some of my favourite posts over the [...]

10 January 2008

WordPress and MyBlogLog

According to the MyBlogLog widget on the right, the most frequent visitors to this blog are Eric, rafer, Reesa10 and SteveHo.
Strangely enough, they also seem to be the most frequent visitors to other WordPress blogs as well, except that they aren’t — because if you click on them, you will find that it is other [...]

4 November 2007

WordPress promoting porn?

On the WordPress login page I find something described as a “hawt post”.
Does anyone know what “hawt” means?
It doesn’t appear in my dictionary, so it doesn’t appear to be an English word.
A Google search for “hawt” brings up a porn site.
Does that mean that these “hawt” posts are related to porn? Why does WordPress see [...]

11 September 2007

Blogger versus WordPress

After six months I still haven’t made up my mind whether to switch completely from Blogger to WordPress.
Some of the things in Blogger have been fixed (clicking on interests, books, films etc in people’s profiles works again), but with word press I’m seeing this message more and more often:
Server Error
The following error occurred: [code=SERVER_RESPONSE_RESET] [...]

23 July 2007

WordPress posting temporarily suspended

WordPress and Blogger seem to be having a competition to see how many features won’t work.
I have temporarily supsended posting here, and will post mainly on my other blog Notes from Underground at least until the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget is displaying properly again.

20 July 2007

WordPress woes

I started this blog 5 months ago as an experiment.
Many people in my blogroll had announced that they were switching from Blogger to WordPress, and so I thought I would try WordPress and see if it worked ant better, since so many features in Blogger Beta had stopped working (and they still don’t work).
But some [...]

20 April 2007

Back to original WordPress theme

For a few weeks I tried a different WordPress theme, with three columns, but decided to return to the old one, because so much stuff seemed to be duplicated in the two right-hand columns.
But this one still doesn’t seem to allow trackbacks, so I’ll carry on looking.