WordPress

I have been running my blog with a self-hosted WordPress install for almost two decades, and I finally decided to move to a static website solution. The relatively rapid shift was triggered by a WordPress update that caused trouble with the paths to images throughout my blog. However, since my site was hacked a couple of years ago, I have pondered alternative solutions for running the blog. I have been tired of all the updates and security issues with a server-based content management system and figured that a static website solution would be more straightforward in the long run. My first web pages were based on plain HTML files, so I considered going back to such an old-school approach. However, there are many static web page solutions, so I decided to try a few different options. Here, I will discuss why I ended up with Hugo for my new page. ...

About 6 months ago I had a serious spam attack here in my blog, and received more than 60 000 spam comments in a few days. For that reason I decided to turn off the option to comment on blogs, but I never managed to get rid of all the comments that was already in my system. The WordPress admin system only allows for deleting 20 comments at a time, so that didn’t seem like the way to go. ...

I just downgraded from Wordpress 2.7 to 2.6.5 after living with an extremely slow web page for some weeks. There are lots of discussions about why Wordpress 2.7 is so slow, and it boils down to some compatibility problems with the server it is running on. I don’t have time to investigate this further, so I decided to roll back instead and wait for next version of Wordpress instead.