As you may know, or have experienced, there were two issues of recent note on SPT. One was the loss of readership, down by about 50%. The second was the slow loading of the site’s pages for some if not most of the visitors. The loss of readers is something that I cannot directly explain [...]
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February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, Internet, WordPress, opinion
There’s something going on that I just don’t quite understand. Readership on the site has dropped off enough to concern me. After the last big dip from a few weeks ago, we’re there again. What the hell happened? I tried thinking back and wondered what seemingly small changes have I made that caused for large [...]
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December 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
Wait. Check the doors… I think we’re ok. SPT is surviving, nay, thriving during the throes of the holiday season. Readership is hovering around 600 per day and page views make all of me happy.
I have a nice daily routine set down for posting and the weekends are the most fun, reviewing some beers, putting [...]
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November 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, homebrew, opinion
We’re still here and still consecutive in posting. No interruptions so far. HostGator has been flawless and WordPress was upgraded to v2.8.6 which we have running right now. Everything remains the same, and that’s damn good.
I am delighted in the fact that readership to these friendly confines continues to inch upward. On a daily basis [...]
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November 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
Halloween has brought more visitors to our humble SPT borders, mostly looking for ideas on costumes at the eleventh hour. Good luck and thanks for visiting.
Two new recipients received SPT stickers in the mail this week. That is, if the USPS is still reliable in picking up and delivering mail. Chris in Texas and Miguel [...]
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October 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, homebrew, opinion
Here’s some news about this website as soon as I think of it: Oh, yeah…
WordPress has been updated to version 2.8.5 and we are there. It’s so nice that I can get the announcement of upgrades in the admin dashboard, click the button and after a few seconds, it’s there.
I’m planning on installing a new [...]
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October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
(Note: The pronouns, I and we are used interchangably within the following post. They denote the personal me with my thoughts, desires and ambitions, and the collective we, as a website compilation with your interests at heart.)
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Here’s the latest on the skinny of info of the dirt all about [...]
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September 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress
SixPackTech, with all its posts and invested hours of work, came down sometime in the early hours of this last Friday. Imagine what I was thinking when, fresh from a Friday shower, I checked in with SPT to see if the scheduled posts got published, only to find a the two sidebars and a message [...]
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September 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
We’re chuggin’ along with an increasing readership. Slow but sure. Last week’s results bring a smile.
The weather is changing. Soon I’ll be posting in the Manly Garage after starting a fire in the stove. Then, soon after that, it’ll be back in the house for the duration of the Illinois winter, publishing on the Mac [...]
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August 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Apple, Frankly speaking - Site Specific, Windows, WordPress, opinion
There was some recent hubbub about a security issue with WordPress wherein some hacker could hijack the Admin’s login and change it somehow. WP issued a security update and we incorporated it here sometime about Wednesday. We are all safe. Or so we think. SPT is now up to WP version 2.8.4.
There’s a new feature [...]
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August 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
A small problem has arisen wherein, on Saturday nights, right about the time I post the Brew Review, the hosting service slows to a crawl. Just visiting the site takes longer than usual. You sit and wait while the thing snaps out of it and finally loads. There’s something going on. I sent off a [...]
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August 2nd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Frankly speaking - Site Specific, WordPress, opinion
Ya know, there’s a lot of good stuff on this website. There are over 2,200 posts on SPT right now, tons of which are great, funny, educational but forgotten. This last week, I’ve been trying to find a relatively easy way to add an additional feature. Two come to mind:
Add a Related Posts feature [...]
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