Hi, I've noticed that one of the blogs that I maintain has been compromised recently. This setup is based on Serendipity 1.4.1 with PHP 5.2.13, running on a Debian shared hosting server.
The index.php has been altered (starting with an "eval(base64_decode" ...), and the same has happened to other ...

Hi Garvin! I'm really glad to see that the idea of counting only the GET requests as visits can be useful, and that it has been commited to the svn repository.

During the last few days, I've been thinking about other possible solutions to the problem of counters getting increased by bots and ...

I think that in order to get an http:BL key you must be an active supporter of the Honeypot Project. However, this has already been done in the Spam Protector (RBL) plugin (serendipity_event_spamblock_rbl), which allows you to provide an http:BL key if you have one.

Unfortunately, when a blog has ...

Here are some ideas for improving the Karma plugin (and more specifically, the way it tracks visits)


Avoid counting spammers as visitors . Every time a spammer access an article, it is counted as visit. I think that http:bl could be used to filter those hits so that they don't get counted. From ...

Hi, thanks a lot for that tip! I hadn't notice that $debug was defined in more than one place, and it looks like I had enabled it at the wrong one. After enabling $debug at the right place, I published another post and these are the results that I got after the pings were sent:

Sending XML-RPC ...

Garvin, thank you very much for your answer. It's more than clear now :)

I've been thinking about this issue, and I believe that you're right when you say that pinging before having new contents available has a minimum impact.

After all, every time you save a new future post, s9y will send a ping ...

Garvin, thank you for you explanation. I can see now that there's no problem at all in submitting a new sitemap, even when there aren't new contents published.

However, what happens with blog pings?

In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its ...

Since I enabled the Announce Entries plugin, I was never able to ping Technorati. Has anyone had the same problem? Here's the error message that shows up when a new entry is saved:

Sending XML-RPC ping to host rpc.technorati.com...Failure(Reason: Invalid return payload: enable debugging to examine ...

I've just saved a new entry with a future date (an article that should go live tomorrow), and not only a new sitemap was submitted (which I guess is wrong, since the blog hasn't changed yet) but also pings were sent.

Sent sitemap sitemap to www.google.com.
Sent sitemap sitemap to submissions.ask ...

Hi Garvin!

I was wondering about the future posts/trackbacks issue, when I foud Mekk's post.

I was running s9y 1.3.1 until now, but having seen that you commited that patch on August, I decided to upgrade to 1.4.1.

The upgrade worked flawlessly, but I'm still unsure about how trackbacks work with ...

When you link a post to another post inside your blog, Karma counts the trackback analysis as a visit. I think it shouldn't, since that's a visit coming from an automated process (from inside your own blog).

If you take a look at your web server logs, you'll find something like this after ...