{"id":8047,"date":"2015-09-01T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:41:04","slug":"blog-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/blog-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog refresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear reader,<\/p>\n<p>If you ever visited my blog in the past and you see this, you should&#8217;ve noticed a pretty significant difference in appearance that happened the other day here.<\/p>\n<p>When I kicked off my blog here on the site back in <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/blogging-blogging\/\">August 2007<\/a> and moved my blogging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advogato.org\/person\/bagder\/\">advogato<\/a> to self-host, I installed WordPress and I&#8217;ve been happy with it since then from a usability stand-point. I crafted a look based on an existing theme and left it at that.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, WordPress has had its hefty amount of security problems over and over again and I&#8217;ve also suffered from them myself a couple of times, and a few times I ended up patching it manually more than once. At one point when I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version it didn&#8217;t work to upgrade anymore and I postpone it for later.<\/p>\n<p>Time passed, I tried again without success and then more time passed.<\/p>\n<p>I finally fixed the issues I had with upgrading. With a series of manual fiddling I finally managed to upgrade to the latest WordPress and when doing so my old theme was considered broken\/incompatible so I threw that out and started fresh with a new theme. This new one is based on one of the simple default ones WordPress ships for free. I&#8217;ve mostly just made it slightly wider and edited the looks somewhat. I don&#8217;t need fancy. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to keep up with WordPress better this time.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I added a captcha that now forces users to solve an easy math problem to submit anything to the blog to help me fight spam, and perhaps even more to solve a problem I have with spambots creating new users. I removed over 3300 users yesterday that never posted anything that has been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.\u00a0 Now back to our regular programming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear reader, If you ever visited my blog in the past and you see this, you should&#8217;ve noticed a pretty significant difference in appearance that happened the other day here. When I kicked off my blog here on the site back in August 2007 and moved my blogging from advogato to self-host, I installed WordPress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/blog-refresh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog refresh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[430,180,60],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-floss","tag-advogato","tag-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}