Here’s Flash making himself comfy on the bed. Apparently, blogging furmoms bore him.
Rainy Friday mornings are for catnaps
Force-correction of “WordPress”
I just noticed something. My WordPress install has auto-corrected every spelling of “WordPress” I have typed into a post, changing the “p” to an uppercase letter. Of course, I love this feature, since I’m a such a stickler for spelling and grammar. Apparently, a filter was added to WordPress 3.0 that auto-corrects all instances of the word. Of course, this “upgrade” isn’t without its detractors. Personally, I think it’s an effective means of keeping a brand name consistent and have no issues leaving the filter in place as long as it doesn’t impact the performance of my blogs. I hope they don’t remove it.
Disabling directory browsing
I had created a subdomain to route to the WordPress login on one of my sites, in order to make it easier to find the login page later on after I removed the link from the home page. However, created the subdomain created two things: a subdirectory within the WordPress install directory, and made it browsable. So if I plugged in www.mydomain.com/login, a browsable index page came up. Since this sort of behavior opens up the website to malicious visitors, I had to find a way to plug up the hole.
Fortunately, there was already an answer out there to the solution. Because I installed WordPress into its own directory, and not the root, I merely had to make some adjustments to the .htaccess files.
For both files located at the WordPress root and the login folder root, I just needed to add the following lines at the end of each file:
# BEGIN Disable Dir Browsing
Options All -Indexes
# END Disable Dir Browsing
I believe this code can be applied to any directory that needs its contents hidden from browsing, as long as an .htaccess file exists.
A quick look at the May front yard
Now we have another Victoria Blue salvia blooming on the far end of the front flower bed. So that makes for two flowering salvia farinacea that have returned from last year. There are yet 2 more young Victoria Blues that have been slow to come up. I don’t mind their slow return, which saves me from purchasing more, but the man wants that extra pop right now.
Talk about slow…the gardenia has new leaf sets, despite that it has lost about 75% of its foliage. It survived the bitter winter frost, which is amazing in itself. I don’t want to prune it back because there is evidence of new life on it. It’s going to be a very slow recovery.
One of the Confetti lantana is putting on a set of buds. Its sibling about a foot away has been more interested in trailing rather than flowering. I also had some criticism for the man for planting the vinca seedlings so close to each other. They grew into monsters last year, and I don’t expect it to be any different this year.
The man trimmed back our centerpiece loropetalum in this front bed, just to give it some shape for the rest of the year. I am interested in seeing it grow higher, but I won’t begrudge it a little width to shade the tiny impatiens seedlings at its feet. The man also hacked down the Hot Lips salvia…that thing has grown into a monster in the front bed and is in constant need of pruning. We did finally get another Hot lips planted next to the Autumn Twist azalea and expect the same vigorous growth this year.
Notice the verbena colors? Maybe I don’t need Mosaic after all. The Dallas Star daylilies are heavily laden with scapes!
Finally, my newest heuchera seems a little lonely in its corner of the shade bed, but I hope it will be happy there. It has a caladium bulb for a neighbor…although I can’t say that I don’t want to plant another hosta next to it.
Flowers & cuttings, pups & kitties
I took about 10 lemon thyme cuttings earlier this week. Made some more cuttings today of rosemary (x2), yellow salvia (x1), and tricolor sage. I got too impatient and yanked out one of the sages from the jiffy pot. It had a nice root on it, less than half an inch long. I should learn to just let it do its thing and give it about a month.
Did I mention the lime basil seedlings I found? They’re taking up residence next to the Thai and Pesto Perpetuo basils in the planter.
