Random thoughts and observations
I received an email from my web host Site5 while I was at the cricket on Tuesday, saying this site had been suspended because it was using too many system resources (CPU and memory) for shared hosting.
“Your account is consuming about 10.66% of CPU resources on a shared server, which is not a fair share. We had no choice but to block the web access of following script to stabilize the server,” the message said.
Not that anyone would have noticed, because it was all behind the scenes, I have been undertaking some maintenance tasks on this website over the past few weeks.
Firstly, I switched theme to the Genesis Framework, but retained the previous color scheme using the Streamline child theme.
That required me to revise some SEO settings. I also started adding “featured images” to old posts so they show up in archives and related post links using nrelate.
I’ve been taking a look tonight at PivotX blogging software. It’s the successor of Pivot, which was a flatfile system I used here many years ago around 2002 before shifting to WordPress. PivotX is partly built with jQuery, Smarty, TinyMCE, PHP and MySQL. I’ve got no intention of abandoning WordPress, but it’s interesting to experiment with alternatives like sNews and PivotX. WordPress is such a large community now; there are so many themes and plugins to choose from. My first impressions of returning to PivotX are mostly positive.
I can’t remember when I installed Akismet on this site, but it was probably six or seven years ago. The latest stats show that Akismet has blocked 81,016 spam comments for an accuracy rate of 99.83 percent. Good work! Tweet Pin It
WordPress 3, using the Twenty Ten theme, has a new feature for handling “asides”. This is a test post to see how they appear. Tweet Pin It
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