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Akismet saved my blog!

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I took a rare look at the dashboard of my WordPress blog and saw that Matt Mullenweg was looking for beta testers for a new spam blocking tool. I was getting hammered by spammers and they were driving me mad so I emailed him and found myself accepted.

Akismet is the end result of that beta testing – and it’s awesome. I’m actually getting less spam as a result at the spammers can see that their efforts are going nowhere! Phew. Read the rest of this entry »

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Related Posts for WordPress

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I’ve just discovered a swag of hacks for WordPress by Denis de Bernardy. They’re pretty impressive and highlight for me, in the few lines of code that represent each hack, how little I understand the internal workings of WordPress. Aaah, one day.

The only part I’m using right now is the related posts list at the bottom of the page. It should just be when you see a single post but I’ll get to that later. Before I commit much time to it I need to work out how to make the related posts a bit more relevant. In the meantime it all helps my internal navigation I guess.

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Syntax Highlighter for WordPress

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When I was editing my Essential change to Blogger Templates and using the output of php’s sytax highlighter I was getting unreliable presentation via WordPress. What had worked well in the old part of my site was falling over now. I needed something that made posting simple and worked for readers!

I looked through various libraries of WordPress plugins and decided on iG:Syntax Hiliter and it’s fantastic. The layout is cleaner than I had before and the code doesn’t have to be manipulated before I post!

Thank you Amit!

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