Mashable.com has published an article that highlights 7 Tools For Fighting Spam In WordPress. The list of plugins includes:
Akismet
Bad Behavior
Defensio.com
Simple CAPTCHA
Simple Trackback Validation
Spam Karma 2
WP Spam Hitman
From my own experience, Akismet has been the only spam fighting tool I’ve needed to use on this blog. Akismet seems to pick up just about everything that is [...]
February 10th, 2008 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
The folks over at Wired.com sure know how to come up with interesting InfoGraphics which turn complicated datasets into beautiful visual aids. This is no exception. Wired.com has put together a nifty InfoGraphic of how a blog post travels the interweb. The graphic starts off with a post being written and then published on a [...]
January 30th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
According to Ryan Boren, one of the lead developers behind WordPress has announced that the Automattic Dev team is considering a change to the WordPress.org development cycle.
We are considering building this extra time over the holidays into our roadmap. This would mean one less release per year. We’d release in Spring, Summer, and Fall, and [...]
Well, Christmas may be done and over with but Matt Mullenweg and company are apparently still in a giving mood. Starting today, every registered user of WordPress.com will see their upload space go from 50mb to 3,000mb. This is 60 times more storage than what was offered previously. According to Matt, if you were to [...]
January 21st, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
Looks like there will be a WordPress meetup in the New York City area on Saturday, February 16th 2008 at 4:00 PM. The date and where the event is taking place is subject to change so be sure to keep an eye on the official event page for more information.
Other WordPress related conferences/meetups are as [...]
Well, if you haven’t taken down the CliqIN widget by now, you’ll be forced to. I received word today that on January 31st, Cliq will be taken down indefinitely. All members that have registered with the Cliq website will be notified this week. Personally, I thought CliqIN was a good idea. However, it never [...]
January 16th, 2008 | Jeffro | 8 comments | Continued
Ok, the blogging master 3000 is not me per se, instead, its the name of my new computer system I’m building. Inside this picture is the following hardware (all purchased through NewEgg.com):
COOLER MASTER CM Stacker STC-T01-UWK Black/ Silver Aluminum / Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - $149.99
EVGA 122-CK-NF67-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i [...]
Charles Stricklin has published an article today that shows off Grafiti essentially slamming WordPress. According to Charles, Telligent has purchased the keyword WordPressPodcast from Google Adwords. Upon clicking on the promotional landing page, you discover that the Grafiti CMS is THE alternative for WordPress. Telligent claims that Grafiti has a 2 minute install time [...]
January 3rd, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
The time has finally arrived where I will pop my podcasting cherry and produce the first episode of WordPress Weekly. WordPress Weekly will TRY to be a weekly oriented podcast that takes place every Friday evening at 9PM EST on Talkshoe.com. The easiest way I can explain the format of the show is by looking [...]
January 1st, 2008 | Jeffro | 23 comments | Continued
With just under a month to go before the expected release of WordPress version 2.3, Automattic has released WordPress version 2.3.2 which contains what else, security fixes. This release fixes a bug that would allow your draft posts to be exposed to the public. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that would occur that could [...]
December 30th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued