In order to fight comment spam on our blogs, we were using reCaptcha. It's not the funnest thing in the world, so I removed it in favor of akismet. Akismet is a cloud-based solution (ie. they host the stuff that decided whether it is spam, and we just check each time a comment is posted). […]
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It took a bit of work, but our site is now running the latest wordpress. This means that anything that is available for wordpress (check out wordpress.org for plugins/themes) is available for our site. This wasn’t the case in the past. They were two separate tools, and the MU version (MU = multi-user) was always […]
So I was doing the annual stuff for our website, and decided we should move it to a permanent place. My house was working well enough, but my internet speed isn’t made for hosting websites. Add in the fact that I am (*was*) hosting like 6 sites, an email server, and an irc server, and […]
Wiki is up!
Posted in Website on May 3rd, 2008
So, I mentioned in a comment on Dad’s latest post that I was going to setup a wiki for us. It is here and all setup. Go take a look at http://wiki.briggsfam.com/ to see it. The purpose is to have a place that has a bunch of How-to’s or Tutorials on how to get your […]
Forums are up!
Posted in Website on Jan 16th, 2008
So, Rebecca’s recipe sharing got me thinking, and I’ve been wanting to get forums up for some time, so without further ado, the Briggsfam.com Forums are up. You can go to http://forums.briggsfam.com or http://recipes.briggsfam.com to get to them. You will need to register and answer a simple mathematical question to be able to see them, […]
Google can eat my shorts.
Posted in Website on Nov 7th, 2007
Well, not really, but it sounded good. For anyone interested, I told google to remove us from their search engine. I couldn’t find anywhere on yahoo to request it, but they should all no longer be cataloguing anything we do. I put in something that tells their robots (and that is what they are called, […]
Video posting now working
Posted in Website on Sep 16th, 2007
So, you can now post videos to your blogs. Once I show Annelise how to convert our home videos to a more compressed format, she will be uploading like crazy, so just watch out. Essentially, most video hosting sites (like youtube, or whatever) give you a few lines of code to copy/paste into a webpage […]
So I added each of you (the adults) as “Authors” on Briggsfam.com. Keep in mind, Briggsfam.com refers to this frontpage blog. Each of your own blogs has the same capabilities, should you want to give someone else different rights. This is a good page that describes the roles used in WordPress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Summary_of_Roles So, I gave […]
Picture Gallery and more site tweaks
Posted in Website on Jul 30th, 2007
So I added a button there on the horizontal menu that says “Pictures.” Click it and see what wonders it contains. I am sure we can really get that baby packed with stuff. Maybe even make multiple sub-galleries, one per trip or what have you. Moreover, with some prodding from Dad, I modified the page […]
New look and feel
Posted in Website on Jul 29th, 2007
Ok, so I decided to choose a new theme for the main blog at Briggsfam.com. You will also notice that the center column lists all of our blog’s latest post. It doesn’t do anything but display the blog name, the post title, when it was posted and a link to read that post. I did […]