A couple of weeks ago I added this new Word Press plug-in, WP-Ban to my site. This plug is by Lester Chan and I might also add he has a number of other awesome Word Press plug-ins.

WP-Ban gives you the ability to ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer URL from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referrer URL tries to visit your blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. It also gives you statistics on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild card matching too.

So far I have blocked 70 attempts from banned IPs.

The beauty of this plug-in is that when they are banned their comments don’t show up and and you don’t have to worry with deleting them…very time saving

I have blocked some IPs and they are still sneaking through…it maybe a user problem (mainly me) but I will continue to play with the features to learn how it works. All in all I’m pretty happy with this new plug-in. Great work Lester  Chan!

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What the heck have I been doing? Well I’ve been busy creating a new site, Pour Me A Shot.com, which features free shot drink recipes and information on bartending. I have owned this domain name for five years and FINALLY got around to building the site, mainly because I couldn’t decide on a format for the site. I checked out a couple of CMS and found them confusing as hell and decided on Word Press.

I am….well guess you might say, a retired mixologist (bartender)….atleast since hurricane, Katrina. I worked at Gulf  Beach Resort in Biloxi, MS and my last day was the day before Katrina. The bar/hotel was located on the beach and destroyed by the hurricane. I miss the 7th floor bar, Sapphire’s, which was totally glassed in and gave you the most awesome view of the coast and of course, I miss the people.

Bartending is a fun job and a way to make money on a daily basis (tips). The Pour Me A Shot site has been very fun to design and kinda makes me want to jump back behind the bar again

I just finished  an eBook,The Sexy Little Cocktails and Shooters Book, which is available for download and it’s FREE. It contains 115 risque, romantic and outrageous drink recipes.

Pour Me A Shot  is also on Twitter and if you can follow us @PourMeAShot. The Pour Me A Shot MySpacesite is is up and running, but you add us as a friend, our URL http://www.myspace.com/TheOfficialPourMeAShot.

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I have installed WordPress 2.7 on this blog and a new blog. As soon as I get the kinks worked out of everything I will be back to posting.

Some of my old plugins weren’t compatible with the new version of WordPress, so I have had to delete some and install new ones. Right now my tags aren’t linking to posts and a few other annoying things.

All in all I do like the new dashboard on 2.7 and I’m glad that I’ve upgraded. Perhaps in the next day or so I will have everything set up the way I want it on this blog.

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Well I am still tinkering with WordPress and trying to learn what it can and can’t do. I have been adding, testing and deleting different widgets and plugins. There are a few quirky little things I’m not happy about concerning WordPress such as the way the comments are formatted.

If you will just bear with me during this process I should have all the changes and additions I need to make done by the end of the week. Now if you come back to my site and all it’s blank or it has disappeared, perhaps it has fallen into some mysterious dark hole in cyberspace or I have simply hit the wrong button.

Purchasing a WordPress book is on my to do list.

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Recently I installed the Odiogo WordPress plugin and it is awesome and FREE (it’s funded by advertising)! What does all this mean? Well as a reader of this blog, you can click the listen now button above the blog post and it will be read to you. Cool, huh? You can also go to my Odiogo Page and click subscribe and you will be able to listen to my blog content on the go on your iPod, MP3 player or cell phone.

When you click on my Odiogo Page you will have a couple of different ways that you can subscribe to my blog. You can subscribe through iTunes or Juice, or you can choose a web reader, such as: MyYahoo, NetVibes, Google, My MSN, NewsGator, or My AOL. Another option is to copy and paste this link into your favorite podcast client:
http://podcasts.odiogo.com/renee-thronson-com/podcasts-xml.php

If you would like to share this blog with a friend you may do so with Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg or Technorati on the Odiogo Page.

If you are a blogger and would like to voice enable your blog, Signup now for Odiogo and make your textual content podcast-ready—It’s FREE!

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I have just uploaded a Privacy Policy for my blog. The Privacy Policy for WordPress plugin was obtained from Eric Giguere’s Synclastic.com.

If you use Google Adsense Ads or Google Search Boxes on your web site as of February 2008, you are required to display a privacy policy.

This plugin automates the creation of an Adsense compliant privacy policy. Installing and creating the privacy policy was quick and painless. Requirements: Self hosted WordPress 2.0 or higher. The wording is generic enough to be used with most sites even those without Google Adsense.

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I changed the font sizes making them a little bigger and easier to read for people like myself. But now if you’re younger and still have 20/20 vision, you will be able to go about your business in your computer room, perhaps do some filing, tidy up a bit and you’ll be able to view the blog from across the room

The blog headers have been changed to lovely contrasting colors. I have made the switch successfully from the girly theme to a dark and sexy theme. I love it. Now if I can just keep my hands off of it I might be able to write something of substance.

The contact form works but I still have to complete the My Web Pages and Free Stuff pages and of course add some sponsors.

BTW this lovely free WordPress theme is courtesy of Sam Karathanos. Sam’s designs rock!!!!

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Well I have changed the theme and now the text wraps around the pictures, Yeah! Next I need to figure out how to set up RSS (another new thing to learn) and then on to tweaking this WordPress blog theme and I’ll be ready to roll.

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I have spend the past two days working on this blog theme, adding widgets, and plugins and changing settings. At this point I hate Word Press and CSS and blogging seems to be a whole lotta work.

I have managed to post some information on the About Page. The text on this page is supposed to wrap around the photos and it doesn’t. I have emailed the company that designed the theme that I am using to see if perhaps they can tell me how to fix this.

Of course I would add a picture to this post…and it would probably be of someone with their head exploding or pulling their hair out of their head..but it would not be formatted with wrap around text

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