Alvaro Degives-Mas

Statpress Reloaded is one of the alternative “internal” server-based stats plugins that work perfectly together with WP Super Cache (other stats generating options that are “external” – e.g. WP Stats, Google Analytics or Quantcast – work off their own respective servers).

Well, the links are inserted automatically throughout the body. No idea why they’re indexed by search engines in your case, though. Have you deactivated the “rel=nofollow” link qualification function, perhaps using another plugin? That’s about the only thing I can think of.

Ah, an old one which answers a question. Long live the search function.

Speaking of which: what’s really lame is to reflexively shoot from the hip and ask a question upfront and firsthand to the author, expecting a personal firsthand reply, in blithe disregard of any meaningful effort to figure out if, perhaps, someone else inquired about the possible uses for those funny round things placed at the ends of axes underneath horse carts. Spending 10 minutes quickly becomes 10 hours, and much more, and that is simply past the point of reasonable endurance. Fortunately you haven’t seen the page after page full of whiny know-betters insisting that their friendly regular Google and MSN bots from China and the Russian Federation really shouldn’t have been blocked by that nasty bad plugin. Good riddance to those pages. As it is, collaborative, volunteer projects are two-way contracts: the author is available to reasonable requests, while the users provide useful feedback and minimize being unshaven and unwashed PITAs, like the pests that BB keeps out.

Anyway.

There’s a fundamental difference between using (what I call) a remote blacklist and a local blacklist: the former implies a request (as brief and fast as it is, akin to DNS queries) while the latter just plain smacks the door in the face upon sight. So, if you’re particularly hard hit by bots, a local blacklist probably is the better short-term solution. Then again, neither of the two is an adequate solution for DDoS script kiddos, when they’re hellbent on making their two-bit sentiment felt. Plus, another downside of a local blocklist: it should to be regularly maintained, while a (remote) blacklist is usually very regularly updated.

Besides, neither local or remote blocklists won’t do you good against determined efforts aimed specifically at the site; it’s, just like BB and Akismet and Project Honeypot and others, a 99% solution, not a 100% one – obviously.

Peace (and bot-pests) out.

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Yes, at midnight UTC your blog’s “day” ends, too, according to WP Stats.

BTW: UTC = PST – 8 hours (so, UTC rollover occurs at 4:00pm PST)

Also, note that under Options > General settings you’ll see that WP itself also operates under UTC, which you can offset by whichever number of hours you’re at. This is somewhat different from some other plugins and scripts, that operate at the server’s timezone – from which you’d have to set the proper offset in hours relative to your local time. Finally: UTC doesn’t recognize / observe daylight saving time (DST), so during DST, UTC = PST – 9 hours

Of course, there are some other stats plugins that do work with the same offset you use (set) for your entire WP blog, under Options > General.

Frankly, I don’t understand why you’re asking about pages “versus” categories. They’re different ways of presenting content; if you have content by categories then yes, category links make sense. Else, no they don’t.

If you’re looking for something that helps building navigation menus, I’d suggest looking at the Multi-level Navigation Plugin which supports links (menu items) pointing to categories and such.

Having said that, you’re asking a question about organization of content of your site, in a forum dedicated to “plugins and hacks”, and yet you wonder why one day later nobody knows what to do with it… Don’t be too much surprised when you don’t get many nibbles asking for used cars in a bakery, either.

…and that makes three. Had to disable WP-Geo to keep the blog up.

Ljmac, first: kudos for still hanging in there with 9! I’m looking at my iMac now and think I might actually try and revive the beast… No idea WaCom still had a Mozilla 1.3.1 out there. But: it’s mighty old.

Having said that… Have you, by any chance, changed settings of WP Super Cache to half-on? Might explain the mysterious disappearance.