Category Archives: Site News

I’m going to make a second attempt to migrate Troppo to the new server this weekend.
I have two alternative strategies to look at. One involves chopping bits out of Wordpress that prevent the export/import system from working in the way I want them to.
The other involves a few hours of tedious SQL munging.
You may see [...] Continue reading →

Today (Saturday) I will be moving Troppo to a new server. During the day you will see intermittent connectivity. Once we’ve moved across I’ll update this announcement.
Update: Ahem. The move will take longer than anticipated — it will probably happen Sunday instead.
Update 2: To prevent people being from being upset by their bon mots [...] Continue reading →

Given that Troppo has relaxed its comments policy, some of you may be puzzled as to why your comments weren’t being posted.
Well there’s two things. First, the Akismet anti-spam service still sometimes comes up with false positives which need to be fetched from the spam bin.
The second thing is that the Wordpress default is to [...] Continue reading →

Feel free to express your hatred, dread etc etc below.
Update: Just to add insult to injury, our server internet connection failed for about an hour. Continue reading →

Good old Spam Karma 2 has been trundled off to the glue factory. Ever since its maintainer threw in the towel because of the vague vagaries of Wordpress, SK2 has been living on borrowed time.
A few days ago the ever observant James A, sometime commenter here at Troppo, remarked that comment subscriptions seemed to be [...] Continue reading →

Our hosts, the University Computer Club, have advised that there will be some downtime today between 11am and 12.15pm WA Standard Time. I hope you can all nurse yourselves through your Troppo withdrawals for this brief interlude.
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