Advantage of WordPress.com

Harder for someone to hijack one’s domain as has happened today over at my non-WordPress.com blog. Wonder if I’ll ever get it back. All those years of blogging, gone. I’ve gone from being shocked and angry to just plain sad, crying over my loss.

It wasn’t even a high-traffic blog. It was a low-traffic mostly of late cat blog with a little commentary, no advertisements, nothing to set it apart as being a domain worth taking. And yet it was hijacked.

Why are people so cruel?

Update: Was a severe misconfiguration in Apache. Why are people so dumb? Severe was an understatement, gargantuan error. All fixed now.

And I took steps to lessen the chance of it being actually hijacked since it wasn’t. Don’t want a repeat. Of course, that won’t stop the techs from making those errors.

Goodies

Discovered I can drag and drop modules in Dashboard. Also minimize both the modules and the sidebar. Dashboard is way more informative, even shows where I have commented. Comment moderation is much easier too, keyboard shortcuts even so Mac-like.

And I am using very little disk space here so I can upload more pics, lots more pics. Except I have even more unused disk space over at Dreamhost where my main blog is hosted.

I also changed my Gravatar, didn’t even have to log in separate. Cool.

Wow!

WordPress.com is using 2.7. Cool. It has a feature to close comments on old posts which I find very desirable. I’ve only updated the test blog to 2.7. Me chicken.

Discovered it when I decided to post on my difficulty commenting on a blog on Blogger. I was logged in on Blogger yet couldn’t comment. Tried in two browsers. Even tried Name/URL, no luck. Finally able to comment using my WordPress.com ID in Safari. Weird.

Anyway, if anyone is curious who iMog is, it is I, Mog of mindofmog.net. Might be obvious from the links or the pic of Meowza who is quite recognizable.

Changes

Not to this blog, satisfied with the theme but to my other blogs. Testing plugins there and more slowly themes. I do like to change things around every now and then.

Theme Header Image

Made one with the site name on it keeping Meowza with his adorable tummy. Apparently when one changes the header image one loses the site name. Odd.

However, I was able to try out several variations on the image and delete the ones I didn’t want to use. That was painless.

Ah Ha!

I now can set a size for the thumbnails here, trying the square thumbs, looks more thumbnailish. Also was able to upload a header image for this theme. Hopefully, it looks ok. Looks like I can pick sizes of images to insert, thumbnail, medium or full size. Not even going to try full size as pics are big.

Doesn’t look bad at all, ok so 2.5 here is an improvement.

They Upgraded

The admin UI is the same as WP 2.5 now. Well, except for their customization. Looks good.

Images

Ok, it’s tiny thumbnails here, no other choices. This be Meowza.

Hmmm

Fair amount of widgets but doesn’t accept Blogrolling blogrolls. Unfortunate. And time consuming to add them one link at a time.

Hello world!

I needed a WordPress.com API key so I could run Akismet as Spam Karma didn’t work right in 2.5 so I have a blog here. As I have a blog at Blogger and LiveJournal and there is someplace else that I was checking out but don’t have a clue where it’s been so long.

My main blog is Mind of Mog where I post most of my stuff. Might post something here too, thinking about it.

It’s not the same here.