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Browsing Reddit a couple of days ago I came across an interesting comment in r/Wordpress, where I knew about the Comment Blocklist for WordPress, a resource comprised by phrases, patterns and keywords commonly used by comment bots and spammers in their comments, which can arguably replace plugins like Akismet by Automattic. Created in 2011 by…

It’s been some time now that I learned about Pikapods, a fully managed service which seems to be just nice for individual users like myself, interested in hosting open source apps, and paying as you go. They even give you a $5 welcome credit for you to try their service totally free. Well, WordPress, used…

I have finally done it. After the recent disaster where I lost everything I had posted here before, today I finally finished recovering the last posts I had maintained as drafts. One of these posts is from April 2023 and talks about video game Easter eggs. The other one, written in Brazilian Portuguese in July…

I took advantage of the All Souls’ Day holiday we’re having this week to improve the inner works of the site. One of the improvements was installing the Search Regex WordPress plugin, which I have since used to search and replace old URL permalinks with the new structure I created since the disaster happened. There’s…

My problem with WordPress in general is that I never seem to be satisfied with the theme I’m using. Since I started using it again, I went with the most excellent Autonomie theme — but then, as of lately, the theme bug bit me again and I went looking for alternatives, which to my liking,…

After the recent loss of all the posts contained in this site, I’ve progressed with recovering most of what was lost. So much so that from the original long posts that I had published only 2 now remain as drafts — and as I intend to recapture their associated images yet during this week so…