I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet.
But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.
Thoughts on WordPress Official Plugins Directory
When I first read last week that Wordpress had launched an official plugins directory I was excited. There are lots of good plugins out there that are not in any sort of searchable database other than a search engine. However, the Wordpress plugin directory isn’t living up to my excitations yet.
WordPress – Extra Text Editing
A client asked me today for more control in their Wordpress control panel. Specifically, when posting they wanted to control the font sizes, colors and do a bit more. As a designer I always freak at that question as I think the code is going to be filled with massive amounts of font tags and out of order strong tags and ohhh the madness. But, then again, maybe I’m overreacting.
WordPress Blog as an OpenID
OpenID ? WordPress.com Wow this is really smart. You can now use your WordPress blog as an OpenID.
From Simon:
"Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold?
WordPress Pros and Cons
After installing Wordpress 2.1 my experiences have been both good and bad. There are a few things I LOVE about the updated blogging software, but there are also a few things that bug me.
Latest WordPress Bugfixes
If you upgraded to or installed the new WordPress version 2.1 that was released last month, you’ll be interested in a major bugfix released today:
[…] Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. It’s available for immediate download on our download page.
Subscribing to Categories in WordPress
One nice feature in Wordpress is the ability to have a feed for each category.
Watch Your Steps Before Upgrading to WordPress 2.1
I ran into issues while trying to upgrade a Wordpress 2.0.7 installation to the new Wordpress 2.1 release.
WordPress Updates And Other Blog News
In case you haven’t heard, WordPress released another update – called Ella (after Ella Fitzgerald) – that promotes the blogging software up to the 2.1 level. The update includes a number of new feature introductions like autosave, increased use of AJAX and a spell checking function for the visual editor. According to the WordPress blog, […]
Favorite WordPress Tricks and Plugins
After having Problogger.net’s – Darren Rowse on my show and Matt Mullenweg (wordpress creator) on the show last week I thought I would keep with the blog theme and share my favorite tricks and plugins that I do with my blog.