Matt Bernier

Recently, I have noticed a bit of ingenuity on the part of spam bots that are hitting my blog sites.  They have been posting jokes, one-liners actually, to my comments.  They also have links to viagra and cialis so I do not approve them. Here are a couple examples: Did you hear about the dyslexic rabbi? He was walking around everywhere saying, “Yo!” How do you circumcise a whale? Send down fore-skin divers. What do you call bedtime stories for boats? Ferry tales. What kind of flowers grow in outer space? Sunflowers. Why wouldn’t the dishwasher’s gloves fit? Because he had Dishpan Hands! What happens when a ghost haunts a theater? The actors get stage fright. Why do bagpipers walk… » Read More

The easiest way to put a digg tag on every page of your blog, is to use WordPress widgets. Go to the widgets, add a text widget and paste the following code in: <script type="text/javascript"> digg_url = document.location.href; </script> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Then, go to your homepage and refresh!  If your page is in Digg you will see how many times it has been dugg. If not it will say “submit”. Then, if someone likes it or you want to put the article into digg, then just click the badge! Good Luck! Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

I ran into a problem with one of the blogs that I manage, there was no way to upgrade a plugin. It just wouldn’t get past the FTP information form.  I put the correct FTP information in, and that failed too. I was out of options, so I went searching and found a plugin called “One Click Plugin Updater“. This plugin actually saved me a ton of work, and trouble in the future because it has some amazing features.  First of which, is that if you have any plugins that need to be upgraded, it will upgrade all of them at the same time.  Secondly, it bypasses the craziness that WordPress runs into, which would cause you to have to… » Read More