Great Firewall of China
As you may have heard, China is firewalling sites on the Internet they feel do not conform to their content standards. There’s a website called Great Firewall of China (greatfirewallofchina.org) which allows you to test whether a website is available from inside China. According to that site, my blog is not available from China, which is a bit puzzling. According to something I found on the WordPress dashboard, there are other WordPress-based blogs that appear to be inaccessible. The Great Firewall of China website also says that there could be “technical reasons” why their service can’t confirm a website, rather than Chinese policy blocking access to my blog.
I know some people heading to China in a few weeks. I’ll have to see if one of them can access it from inside China.
AKA Keeper of Maps, I'm a geocacher who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
My blog is not blocked 🙂 http://www.squidzone.ca
It may be a WordPress’ism causing their service to fail to be able to connect. Or I’ve pissed off China. *shrug*
You want irony? Our company’s web proxy blocks access to that site.
BTW: You need to fix your css so that each comment appears on its own row. I put the following in my style.css:
.gravclear {
clear:both;
height:1px;
overflow:hidden;
}
and then in comments.php, after the
I put a
That should be “<?php comment_text() ?>” and “<div class=”gravclear”></div>”.
Thanks, Paul. I’ve fiddled with it a bit, but it’s still not 100% correct. I think I’m going to have to overhaul my comments.php altogether to sort it out.
Neat. My blog is available.