psybertron

Anyone got an Akismet fix that simple detects Rusian / Cyrillic spam (rather than simply block all .ru comments ?) Bit of a sledgehammer ?

I’m using 2.6.2 on http://www.psybertron.org (hosted by dreamhost). I am having severe performance problems. Dreamhost assure me nothing is unusual at their end.

I have deactivated (and deleted) all plug-ins (except Akismet). Apart from upgrading to 2.6.2 a month or so ago, the only change was to inlcude a collapsing archives plug-in .. which I’ve since disabled.

I used to be OK with 4 or 5 seconds for the main blog page to load, but now it’s never less than 10 and often 15/20 or even timing out. I’m on a fast connection where simple pages even with large (non-active) content seem to load very fast.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks Michael, that’s more like it. The Category:Functions page is a good start and it links to the Category:Template_Tags page as a sub-category.

One supplementary question … something I was also trying to figure out. My question was about which bits of PHP were in the wp-includes folder and which were in the wp-content, themes and plug-ins folders ?

I’m guessing after reading the two links provided, that despite the original intent, it doesn’t much matter which folder they’re in, they will be found so long as my (customized) copy of WordPress PHP’s is on my server in one of those folders, whether it originated in the template or a theme or whatever ?

As I said, just enough to be dangerous 😉

Michael, could I address this to you as moderator.

I’m kinda with the original question … that WP does provide an amazing mix of quick & easy with powerful & sophisticated … but I wouldn’t want it any other way. I know enough PHP to be dangerous … to customise a few specifics, or fix a problem between two plug-in / widgets, which I find I do need to do occasionally, despite the fact I’ve been blogging succesfully for 7 years, that last 2 or 3 with WP.

SIMPLE QUESTION – is there a WP PHP Reference guide that includes “definitions” of the functions and variables ?

PHPXREF is comprehensive, but has no definitions. Is my only alternative reverese-engineering / trial-and-error ?

VeraBass, where do I invoke “No Self Ping”, and what does it do ?

Like, I want the self-pings in my blog database, they are evolving internal links, added value. What I don’t want is to have them reported in the Dashboard as “incoming” links.

I’ve just upgraded to 2.3.1 and I notice the incoming links section of the dashboard page now includes links (internal cross-refernces) from myself to myself within the same domain / URL.

That’s illogical captain. Please fix it so they are “incoming” links only.

I have the same problem.

My RSS feed link doesn’t work – but for a similar reason – the standard set of links in my site’s theme has the wrong syntax for the link.

Been mystified about that for ages. Should be able to fix now.