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Russian mafia tactics now used by spammers

As all of you that have a blog must know, comment spam is a huge issue. Some blogs can get thousands(!!!) of comment spam a day. Akismet catches about %95 of the comment spam on this blog. All the other comments are held for moderation unless the comment author has a previously approved comment. I [...]


WPPA Updates

Since version 1.0 of WPPA was released back in June, I’ve got many emails and comments with feedback, support issues and feature recommendations.
First of all, I would like to apologize for not responding to all emails and comments regarding WPPA. I created WPPA in my spare time (which I don’t have much of) [...]


WPPA 1.0

After promising myself for for the last year or so that i’d do it, It’s finally here.
WPPA (WP Photo Album) is a simple to use, and fully customizable plugin for managing photo albums within a WordPress powered site or blog. Version 1.0 of has been rewritten from scratch, sharing only the name with previous versions.
WPPA [...]


WordPress 2.2

Keeping up with their new development cycle, the WordPress team released WordPress 2.2 yesterday. It has many improvements and bug fixes, my favorite being finally integrating the widget functionality into the WordPress core. click here for the full list of updates.

  • May 16, 2007
  • | Category: WordPress
  • | Comments: 1

XHTML 2 and HTML 5 – who will win?

So again (after doing the same thing with XHTML 1.1), the W3C might be backing off of plans for a more advances web, and leaving it to yet another version of HTML. Right now the W3C has working groups for developing both XHTML 2 and HTML 5. While XHTML 2.0 is a real advancement, [...]

  • May 15, 2007
  • | Category: Tech, Web
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WordPress Pages Custom List

Are you a WordPress theme developer? if so, you probably need to add automatic listing of the WordPress pages to themes allot. wp_list_pages() works fine if the design’s navigation uses a list. If not, you usually have to add a list there, and tweak the css to ignore the list.
Not anymore. I wrote a simple [...]


Un-Inventing the Wheel

After all the long way computing has gone in the last 20 years, someone actually used one of the most advanced web technologies, AJAX, to create a command-line like interface for WordPress.
I must say, I was really impressed. Although this theme is not useful for any real site, It’s loads of fun to play around [...]

  • February 3, 2007
  • | Category: WordPress
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Habari

I first heard about this project in episode 18 of the WordPress Podcast. It is called Habari, which means ‘news’ in Swahili (I guess using african words for names is part of the the new web 2.1 ).
Here’s what they have to say for themselves:
Habari represents a fresh start to the idea of blogging. [...]

  • January 30, 2007
  • | Category: Web
  • | Comments: 0

It’s Called WordPress

Weird Al Yancovic beware! you’ve got competition now. Devin Reams created a super nerdy song and music video called “It’s Called WordPress“. Enjoy!


Move WordPress blog to inner page

OK, so i’ve already showed you how to put a static page on your wordpress home page. But what if you want a blog, but you want it showing on an inner page? Here’s the solution:

Make a copy of your index.php file. Name it blog.php
Open blog.php in a text editor
add the following to the top [...]

  • December 18, 2006
  • | Category: WordPress
  • | Comments: 13

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