Ein neues Kleidchen

Bis auf die falsch angezeigten Umlaute scheint hier in meinem Blog wieder alles korrekt zu laufen.
Ich habe mal wieder Lust gehabt, meinem Blog ein neues Kleidchen anzuziehen. Ein Herz fuer die Natur…und es ist schon seehr lange her, dass ich so schoenes gruenes Gras gesehen habe, denn hier ist alles vertrocknet, braun.

Nun laeuft mein Blog also unter dem amerikanischen Webhoster GoDaddy.
Ich habe viel Schlechtes ueber GoDaddy gelesen, aber Nathan hatte alle seine Webseiten bereits dort und ist bisher super zufrieden.
Der Grund warum ich umgezogen bin, ist der, dass mein ehemaliger deutscher Webhoster (all-inkl.com) leider keine andere Zahlungsmethode als Bankeinzug vom deutschen Konto anbietet. Fuer mich Ausgewanderte war das auf Dauer schwierig, da ich zwar noch ein deutsches Konto besitze, dort aber nichts mehr eingeht. Wie soll ich auf Dauer also meinen Webspace bezahlen? Ich brauchte einen Webhoster, der mich aus dem Ausland zahlen laesst….heisst also via Kreditkarte oder besser noch, via paypal.

Nun zahlt Nathan meinen webspace mit und ich bezahle ihn. Ist doch eine gute Loesung.
Nun muss ich nur noch herausbekommen, wie ich meine htaccess Datei zum Laufen kriege, denn Godaddy scheint diese nicht zu akzeptieren.
Es wird hinter den Kulissen noch ein wenig gewerkelt, aber es gibt auch wieder neuen Esprit fuers Bloggen. Juchei!

Test test hellooooo

Someone out there? Finally I can see my blog here again, after I figured out that my htaccess file was the reason to cause the 500 internal server error.

I’m running this blog now on php5, hm. I’ve read that all the .php file extensions need to be changed to .php5? I haven’t changed anything and it seems to work still?!

This is the test. If I can post this entry successfully, you can be sure I AM BACK!

UPDATE #1
Ok, it worked, but where are all my posts??? My archives are gone. I can see the posts in the database, but they are not showing up in my blog. Annoying little problems…

UPDATE #2
Oki, a few moments later and it’s all running, I can see all posts, the archives work. My inspiration lead me to the permalink structure, which needed a little update and mock around. Weird, now it is as it was before. Maybe the permalinks just needed a little attention.

UPDATE #3
Well…now I just saw my blog has trouble displaying the umlauts correctly. Sighhhhhh! I could just do a “search and replace” in my database…or use a plugin? Is there something that works with php5?

Nothing since

…I hooked up my blog with the ReCaptcha Anti-Comment-Spam tool provided as WordPress plugin. No single spam made it through into my moderation queue. Very nice. Less work, more blog fun. Happy Cola!

Now Working – ReCaptcha Against Comment Spam

Finally, I got the plugin WP-ReCaptcha working (there was a missing code line in my comments.php).
You can see the new tool when you’re commenting, underneath the comments field. Before your comment appears on my blog, you will need to type in two words as shown by the captcha.

I’m sorry for the little extra typing effort, but lately I got quite a few more spam comments than usual and it was getting on my nerves to always log into my blog to just deal with all these spams. The plugin shall now take care of (most of) it. I’ll see.
Also, this ReCaptcha sounds quite promising in fighting spam but also in doing something very helpful and clever: It helps digitising books and old newspapers. Read more about it.

Comment problem solved

Thanks Mau for telling me that it was not possible to comment on my blog for a few days. I installed a new Anti-Spam-Plugin (wp-recaptcha), but it didn’t work, meaning it didn’t show up underneath my comments field, but I forget to de-install it, therefore, even with the anti-spam method invisible, it didn’t allow any comments. Sorry for that!
Mau, it is the same anti-spam captcha that you use. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in my blog or I don’t know what went wrong. Too bad, because I get a lot of spam comments at the moment and was really looking forward to try out this promising help against the evil out there.