My blog is now built with Hugo and has a new look
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I have finally updated to the latest version of Wordpress and detected several different spam attempts in my blog.

• The index.php and wp-content/index.php files contained a couple of unwanted links (their size should be less than 100 bytes).
• One of my posts had some invisible links added at its end. One to a chinese site, disguised with the unescape Javascript function and others hidden by setting the style to display: none.

For some time now I wanted to change my weblog to a server based one. I did no extensive research, but what I read about WordPress made my try it first locally and then for good. So far I’m happy with it.

To get the nice permanent links (like http://pesche.schlau.ch/2005/04/14/wordpress-and-new-hosting-provider/), the web server (if it is an Apache httpd) has to support mod_rewrite. After some failed tries I mailed my hosting provider (hosttech.ch) if they could enable mod_rewrite. This is the answer I got:

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