I originally started this domain to be a forum for all the “Battling-Series” of blogs but, the spam is unmanageable in its current configuration - using phpBB … I know it’s not the latest version that has been released (I’m running phpBB v2.0.19 and the latest version is phpBB v2.0.22) but, this is what my issues are:

* I’m using a tool script to delete all the spam users to ban their IP or username etc .. but, it doesn’t delete the posts. So - I get a lot of “Deleted” posts. This takes too much time to delete and ban once and for all.

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Well .. I’ve upgraded 29 blogs to wordpress version 2.1 ..

There’s been two upgrades since I’ve started this process, with the latest version 2.1.2 really just a quick fix of a hacked upgrade 2.1.1 ..

But - if I don’t beef up my upgrades soon .. there might be a version 3 by the time I get around to things!

So, I’ve started to mass backup my data tonight and despite that will probably take about two more days full time backing the files and MySQL database .. I WILL FINISH the upgrades by Saturday morning! (more…)

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* MyBlogLog - my PetLvr Member Profile

I was “HOT” for about 10 seconds yesterday February 24th .. probably because of my comment on their blog about limiting the joining of communities to 15 per day .. and my subsequent post about that

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It started with a private message from Hans Chung of PostReach in my Ryze Network account .. and it made me look.

The concept is not new to me. On 62-151.com .. 1800HART.com/picks/ … CurlingBlog.com and The-Singers.com .. I’ve inserted code that shows visitors news headlines everyday when they show up to the site. No news is added to my archives or seen in the RSS Feeds, but for the few amount of people that do come by through their bookmarks, at least they will see something new - if I’m not current on my postings.

So - I am now testing the PostReach code on 8 of my sites .. all on the Battling-Series of blogs. Feel free to check them out .. (and hit refresh) .. to see what a Guest Post could look like. Maybe you might want to sign up too?

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* I have upgraded from wordpress version 2.0.0 to wordpress version 2.1

I have successfully upgraded both Battling-Cancer.com blog and Battling-HeartandStroke.com blog simultaneously, without incident.

Although, I should say that I started just before dinner - and went to eat in the middle of the upgrade, then watched “The Amazing Race - All-Stars” before remembering that I was in the middle of TWO separate upgrades!

Wooops.. But, uh .. well they are both up and running now .. because “The Apprentice” was on next! :p

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* I have upgraded from wordpress version 2.0.0 to wordpress version 2.1

I have successfully upgraded Battling-Addiction.com blog to the latest wordpress version 2.1

There are a few things that I have to still configure, like the Links page - but, this applies to all of these Battling-Series of blogs that I have updated and didn’t notice before.

I will fix this later in the week .. as this will be my last upgrade for a while .. offline work beckens me.

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* I have upgraded from wordpress version 2.0.0 to wordpress version 2.1

I have successfully upgraded the Battling-Obesity.com blog today, to the latest version of wordpress 2.1

There was a slight issue that occurred caused by my DSL connection which was a little shaky today (it’s been windy here - if that’s the reason). I’ve come to a routine to updating my blogs, as in the following order:

* I post an entry to let people know that I’m in the process of upgrading
* I backup the entire domain and all of the files to my local drive via FTP
* I backup the MySQL database two ways .. first through the Manage/Backup and email me a copy, and by directly going into the cPanel, myPHPadmin and backing it up manually to save on my own computer
* I print the Plugins page
* I deactivate all of the plugins
* In my cPanel, I go to the File Manager and delete ../wp-admin/ .. /wp-includes/ .. and if exists, the ../wp-content/cache/ folders. I also delete the files inside any backup folders, but don’t bother to delete the folders
* I leave all of the root files by the way
* I FTP the c:\2.1\wordpress\*.* folder and files from my computer to the blog’s root folder
* I go to Options/Permalinks and update
* I manually activate all the plugins that were activated before (and upgraded already in my c:\2.1 folders) from the print out
* I’ve got a list of plugins that I shouldn’t keep activated and versions and double check, plus activate a few new plugins that I’ve grown to like
* I go through the options - and make sure my Feedburner feed and plugin work. I have to go to Feedburner.com in my account and usually have to edit the feed details, re:ping and re:synch
* While I’m at feedburner, I’ve been deactivating the summary feed, enabling the statistics, making sure my HART-caricature is the default logo on all feeds, and just looking around really.
* I go through the rest of the Options and make sure every one is correctly configured
* Browse and view the blog and test the links, the pages, the permalinks, and see if any errors exist
* I then pretty much lose interest and just post the “I’m Finished” type of post, without thoroughly testing anything other than a visual view. But, once I start posting I will note if something doesn’t work properly.

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* I have upgraded from wordpress version 2.0.0 to wordpress version 2.1

I have successfully updated Battling-Schizophrenia.com blog from wordpress version 2.0 to wordpress 2.1. The update took 1 hour and 13 minutes, including backups … which was longer than the #4th upgrade because this time i REMEMBERED to deactivate the plugins first! Also, there was a more considerable amount of plugins used in the Battling-Series.

Everything went according to plan .. and, as far as the versions of the remaining blogs in the HART-Empire Network .. I’ve have updated at least one blog from 5 out of the 6 different versions of wordpress that I am running “out there” .. being versions

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Tags: upgrade, wordpress, 2.1, version

I must have spent about two hours today cleaning up our two forums ..

* PetLvr.com/forum/
* Battling-Forums.com/

… deleting spam, banning IPs, deleting spam, deleting spam …

I seem to have two types of problems.

(1) Spam registrations .. I guess to promote their website? These people aren’t posting ..

(2) Guest spam postings .. over and over with relatively the same spam sites with different names ..

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Back in December 2005, Ruth and I were discussing the future of the HART-Empire Network. It was time to grow. Now, there are basically two simple ways for this “Network of Blogs” to grow …

* Acquire New Members with multiple blogs
* Introduce New Blogs from existing members

While these are both planned and viable options, but we kind of agreed that for the moment … introducing new blogs was the way to go. So we decided to join forces on this new venture..

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