OddThinking

I’ve got OddThinking up-to-date and spick-and-span ready for the new arrival of EmailShroud. I’ve updated all my WordPress plugins to their latest version.

“But which plugins do you recommend, Julian?” I hear you cry!

Well, OddThinking uses:

• PHP Markdown for a more natural text mark-up than HTML.
• Democracy for polling.
• Spam Karma to reduce Comment Spam.
• BAStats for usage tracking.
  • This includes the 255.255.255.255 unsigned column fix
• Subscribe2 to provide email equivalent of RSS to the feed-impaired.
• WordPress Version Check to ensure that I am on the latest version.
• WordPress Plugin Manager, helps keep track of many of the above plugins.
  • I was lucky enough to install before the author removed it from his site, but it doesn’t get much use these days.

My other blogs also use Static Front Page – with another minor hack to treat the static front pages as a page, not a post.

I never did get around to following up the search for a quality Google SiteMaps WordPress plugins, although I am sure they exist by now.

OddThinking uses the hand-made SomethinkOdd template. This is in spite its lukewarm reception from the colour-police! Trying a different color-scheme remains a future project.

EmailShroud 1.0.1 went public today, so, of course, OddThinking now uses it to prevent the harvesting of email addresses.

Now I am just sitting back and waiting for the Internet to prove how much it loves me. At the time of writing, the answer was still not at all, although, according to my logs, 13 suitors have already come to flirt.

So, am I the only webmaster who thinks we should call them “page hugs” instead of “page hits”?