Status for today with the site

I’m preparing some more banners (main-banner) and I added all the Google-Adsense code to the openads installation. I do not use the ‘upgraded’ phpads/openads installation anymore but installed the new version. (see openads 2.3 hell)

I’ve found out that my issues (not updating newly inserted ads) are related to  /var/cache what is not deleted/updated by the openads configuration.

Right now I have 5 zones where I can add various forms of banners / logo’s / ads .. very kewl to experiment with ..

Hacked :-(

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My Erotica weblog [nsfw] was compromised by some Turkish Fans .. They were so nice to add an index.html to my site .. Probably due to some buggy old WordPress Installation I used .. (meanwhile upgraded) .. I cannot imagine they used something else to upload their index.html .. I even could not find a lot of information about those turkish fans …

Hit the image to see what kind of Graffiti they left on the site ..

Openads 2.3 Hell

Openads 2.3 is a hell to use .. it’s new, it’s fresh, it’s a  huge update compared to 2.0 and after installing and using it: it’s a hell on cache level.

I have a lot of ‘single’ banners with single zone and when I try to embed it I see all kinds of other banners displayed .. After searching for ours it seems that when deleting the cache folder the ads / images are displayed correctly. This is really a mess and terrible and absolutely not seen in a previous version of Openads ..

:: Update ::

message to self: when removing the cache files: hell becomes heaven.  Issues seems to be solved that way. Thanks for the update Oliver.

Less is more!

A new Theme, Removed many plugins .. speed up the pages, archive change, google-ads better positioned. Updated openads, but 2.3 version has a severe ‘cache’ problem (cache is not deleted after updating zones etc.. ) ..

Now some background stuff to add again: google-analytics & some other stuff ..

Message to Self: WordPress 2.2.2 array fix

WordPress 2.2.2 has a very strange bug on some servers. After installing the 2.2.x branch successfully you try to configure in the wp-admin menu some settings and all settings show ‘array’ . Archhhh ..

after very long waiting finally found a working solution in the wordpress forum:
Try edit /wp-includes/plugin.php [Line : 102], inside remove_filter function.
Change :

unset($GLOBALS['wp_filter'][$tag][$priority][serialize($function_to_remove)]);
To : $wp_filter[$tag][$priority][serialize($function_to_remove)] = array();
unset( $wp_filter[$tag][$priority][serialize($function_to_remove)] );

this fix in the plugin.php file will fix all the ‘array’ appearances and you can work with the new WordPress 2.2.x version.
So message to self: try to upgrade this weekend to 2.2.2 where plugins and theme keeps unaltered ;-)

Weblog Speed ..

Change the Archives from Monthly to Yearly (hey .. I’m blogging 7 years) .. cause all those months were taking too much systemresources when it was taken out of the database .. .. I’m still listening to old friends .. <G>