Andrew Nacin: My Mistakes with WordPress
This is a good — and quick — video from one of WordPress’ core developers about mistakes he’s made with the platform. If you use WordPress and especially if you do any kind of development, it’s an interesting look at some things to avoid.
Thesis vs. WordPress
There’s a lot of buzz right now in the WordPress community about the fact that Chris Pearson’s does not distribute his Thesis theme for WordPress under the same GPL license under which WordPress is distributed. There was a large discussion yesterday over Twitter between Chris and Matt Mullenweg, the owner of Automattic, the company that [...]
Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing and infuriating process, and there is no ‘Check for Spam’ button in [...]
Quitting IntenseDebate
By Jim on August 23, 2011
That’s it. I think I’m done. I’ve had a pretty good relationship with IntenseDebate’s services on my various websites for quite a while now. Sure, there have been hiccups and periodic issues from time to time, but that’s the nature of online technologies, especially ones that are always under constant development. As WordPress has grown [...]
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