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I'm no longer supporting WordPress but I wanted to mention this as I had been suggesting this WordPress plugin to folks in the WordPress Multiuser forums previously.

It's been announced that the wp-forums plugin is hackable and a security risk.  Considering that the author hasn't been around much, don't expect a fix for it any time soon.

I, for one, have been suggesting folks use Simple Forum instead.  There's no import route though for you to use.

Been playing with the stats over at daria.be today.

Worked out that the Akismet plugin has stopped a total of 213,090 comment spams from reaching the blogs.

That's a lot.

Check out the count updated on the front page of daria.be under the Site Stats header.

Check out the new Dashboard Menu we have over at daria.be. Wish the picture had come out crisper though. Instructions are here if you want to include it within your own WordPress multiuser setup.

Mohammed Suleiman gives us the WordPress MultiUser Avatar Plugin. I'm working on getting this to work on daria.be asap.

Always want a tag cloud for your wordpress.com blog? Engtech gives us a Tag Cloud Generator for your wp.com blog. Runs on Windows, Mac or Linux. It'll give you output that you can copy and paste into a text widget or a Page within your blog. Be sure to read all of the documentation as Engtech goes out of his way to answer any questions that you may have. There's also a list of advanced options for you to try.

And if you're using regular WordPress, just grab one of the many tag cloud generators that are available.

I've gotten a lot done during the last few days over at daria.be, my own WordPress Multiuser installation. Here's some highlights:

• Updated the blogging software to a more recent version as well as the support forum software.
• Worked out the bugs with the stat program and made sure everybody was set up for it.
• Upgraded a number of the plugins like Akismet. I still have to do the individual forums for each blog though.
• Fixed the issue with offsitte posting clients like Blogdesk not working.
• Worked out custom header images for a number of themes like Benevolence and Sapphire. I hope to get to more of them soon.
• Added some themes like Cutline and Greenery.
• Added in an option to display a banner to one.org.
• And worked out a method to host domains for individual blogs.

Its been a busy week. Feel free to check out daria.be today. :)

Greets:

Per a request over at daria.be, I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin and am making it available for download. It places the one.org banner in the upper right of your blog and provides a link to their site. All you have to do is drop the oneorg.php file into your /wp-content/plugins/ subdirectory and activate the plugin within your Dashboard. It also work on the WordPress Multiuser platform if you make plugins optional for your end users.

Hope this helps,

-drmike

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For the longest time, I've had issues with trying to optimize the huge MySQL datatables that exist over at daria.be. With over 6,000 tables, pulling up the database in something like phpMyAdmin wasn't working too well. Took about 20 minutes just to load it up.

My host found a script on line that goes though table by table and optimizes it if needbe. It runs through all of the databases accessable by the MySQL user so it whould work on multidatabase installs of WPMu as well.

The code for the most part comes from here with some modifications made by myself to allow for the WPMu system. Instructions are included within the php file.

Download it from here. Should work on non-WPMu setups as well. Anything with large numbers of MySQL data tables.

Just a quick mention that WP-ShortStat got an upgrade a few days ago. I just noticed it.

New features copied from the site:

new database format, about half the size of the old format
added blogger.com to detected search engines
fix for broken referer
added debug version which shows all errors
some internal fixes (uninitialized variables, ...)
disabled old country detection code

There's also a MySQL script for reducing the size of the tables for it. That will be a big help for me over at daria.be. The script doesn't work for me though. I'll have to fiddle with it.

This one gets requested over on the Wordpress Support Forums ever so often. There's a wonderful service called Sitemeter that does free tracking of websites for you. The issue is though with WordPress.com, you can't have user inputted Javascripts as they're a security risk. (No matter what some folks say on the forums, they are.) So you were stuck with putting in the simple version which really just tracks the IP address of your visitor. Other things like browser types, OSes, etc couldn't be tracked.

Well, I wrote a WordPress widget that allowed a user to just put in their username from over at Site Meter (ie s11user) and have WordPress drop that into the Javascript itself. No javascript input by the user but they get to have the benefits of it. :)

Hope this helps,
-drmike

Download it from here. Drop it into your plugins subdirectory (If you're on WPMU, have your Site Admin drop it into your mu-plugins subdirectory.) Should show up on your Dashboard -> Presentation -> Sidebar widgets page.

edit: Friendly reminder about my laptop collection and my wishlist.

Update: Well I learned my lesson in releasing something to the WP community. Last time I do that. I've gone ahead and deleted this widget. I've tried to help folks who were having issues and followed up with their questions but folks wanted me to play guessing games and didn't want to give me any information so that I could help them. They just wasted my time and theirs. I also didn't care for those bad mouthing me elsewhere while not even asking for assistance or even reading the instructions.