{"id":240,"date":"2008-10-20T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:00:15","slug":"wordpress-plugins-are-some-pretty-slick-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wordpress-plugins-are-some-pretty-slick-software\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#038; plugins are some pretty slick software&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago now I decided to stop hosting any sort of public web service (like this web site) on my home computers. Residential broadband connections were still a bit flakey, upload speeds were low, and as cool as it may be to have total control over things&#8230; I didn&#8217;t want to deal with mundane day-to-day maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>So I bought a few years of dirt-cheap hosting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\">GoDaddy<\/a> and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. This made it easy to post new info (since the browser is also the text editor in WordPress), and the GoDaddy people take care of keeping everything online. <\/p>\n<p>Then I started to get comment spam. So I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a> plugin&#8230; and although I&#8217;ve continued to receive over 8000 spam comments&#8230; none have been posted.<\/p>\n<p>Then as I started to post more info and pics to the page&#8230; I got worried about unrecoverable failures. So I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.designpraxis.at\/plugins\/backupwordpress\/\">BackupWordPress<\/a> plugin, which performs a backup and emails a compressed copy to my Gmail account daily.<\/p>\n<p>Then I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocaoimh.ie\/wp-super-cache\/\">WP Super Cache<\/a> plugin: just because I like the idea of caching and compressing content to make the most of the precious commodity (bandwidth) while burning off the resource that&#8217;s effectively free (CPU time).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, about 30 minutes ago, I found a WordPress plugin that became my new best friend. I hadn&#8217;t upgraded WP in almost 2 years&#8230; just because I thought it would be too much of a hassle&#8230; even though I knew I was running a version with bugs and known vulnerabilities (perhaps one reason I had so much comment spam). <a href=\"http:\/\/\">WordPress Automatic Upgrade<\/a> did all the heavy lifting for me: now I&#8217;m running the latest version and all my posts and pics have remained intact!<\/p>\n<p>All this software is 100% free to use, and has a vibrant community surrounding it. Although I haven&#8217;t tried any of the competitors of WP, I think WordPress is a great tool for making your own little home on the web!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago now I decided to stop hosting any sort of public web service (like this web site) on my home computers. Residential broadband connections were still a bit flakey, upload speeds were low, and as cool as <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wordpress-plugins-are-some-pretty-slick-software\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  WordPress &#038; plugins are some pretty slick software&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}