Although Wordpress 3 was only released less than 2 months ago, there is already a point release - 3.0.1
According to the official announcement this is a maintenance release
According to the official announcement this is a maintenance release
Nominations for the 2010 Irish Blog Awards are closing in a couple of hours time.
The awards celebrate the best Irish blogs and bloggers as selected by the public.
This year's event will be held in Galway on March 27th 2010
The awards celebrate the best Irish blogs and bloggers as selected by the public.
This year's event will be held in Galway on March 27th 2010
There are several reports of hackers launching a very "charming" site that offers an alternative version of the wordpress code (ie. you really do not want their version!)
The site appears to be offline at present, but you can read more about it on CrunchGear
Moral of the story - be careful what you type into your address bar!
The site appears to be offline at present, but you can read more about it on CrunchGear
Moral of the story - be careful what you type into your address bar!
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It's a pity, but it's just one of those things you have to deal with.
So how can you deal with it?
The most obvious methods would be to configure and use plugins like Akismet or TypePad Antispam.
Both systems are available for most of the common blogging platforms and can even be used with other web based software such as VBulletin.
Unfortunately neither system is perfect.
In some cases you will find that you still get a lot of junk that makes its way into your moderation queue or worse still, valid comments get marked as spam and you simply don't see them.
If your blog is under constant attack by automated comment spam bots two things can easily happen:
- Your site can become sluggish, as the amount of traffic hitting the comment form will have a negative impact
- You will still have to check the suspected spam queue, so if it's particularly large you will probably overlook valid comments
One method that I've found extremely helpful is to simply close comments on entries after a certain period has elapsed. So instead of leaving comments on posts open indefinitely I might choose to close them 30, 60 or 120 days later. It may not be ideal, but it certainly helps mitigate the nasty side-effects of spammers.
What do you do?
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Zemanta is one of those little browser addons that is incredibly useful and addictive.
I started using it a few months ago on one or two of my personal blogs, but I'm now using it on some of the company ones as well (where appropriate - obviously).
The plugin is compatible with Firefox (and derivatives) and Internet Explorer, while integration with several of the more popular blogging systems is provided.
They're currently running a survey seeking feedback from users. Unlike a lot of surveys they've kept it short and sweet.
I started using it a few months ago on one or two of my personal blogs, but I'm now using it on some of the company ones as well (where appropriate - obviously).
The plugin is compatible with Firefox (and derivatives) and Internet Explorer, while integration with several of the more popular blogging systems is provided.
They're currently running a survey seeking feedback from users. Unlike a lot of surveys they've kept it short and sweet.
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The SixApart team's long awaited open source project has finally launched.
More news as it becomes available
More news as it becomes available
Darren Rowse mentioned a very interesting online tool for FeedBurner users the other day - Feed Analysis
While FeedBurner's internal reporting can give you your basic subscriber data the Feed Analysis tool does some interesting things with it, such as showing how many new subscribers you've gained during a month, which days are your weakest / strongest and how many subscriber you might end up with.
If you've got 5 minutes to spare it's fun to play with it!
While FeedBurner's internal reporting can give you your basic subscriber data the Feed Analysis tool does some interesting things with it, such as showing how many new subscribers you've gained during a month, which days are your weakest / strongest and how many subscriber you might end up with.
If you've got 5 minutes to spare it's fun to play with it!
