Posts Tagged ‘automattic’

Another Widgets exponent

April 3rd, 2006 by Sarah King

I downloaded the Widgets plugin for WordPress the other day and didn’t think I’d have time to check it out for a bit but I took 5 minutes today to install it on my experimental WPv2 blog. Well, the install took seconds, I activated it, and had it setup in no time at all.

The only shame is that once you’ve played with it you have no reason to continue doing so.

Akismet saved my blog!

October 26th, 2005 by Sarah King

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 »