Posts Tagged ‘plugins’

Time to tweak the Honeypot

Well, I took advantage of the fact that I had nowhere to go for my break today and spent some time optimising this blog. You’ll notice it’s much zippier now and that’s thanks to some caching I’ve added. Here are some new plugins I’m using: Bad Behaviour: Deny automated spambots...

Viagra, free sex and other animals

I’ve hit another threshold on my spam count on this blog, with an excess of 80,000 spam comment having been captured by Akismet. It’s pretty spectacular how efficient that plugin in with really only a couple of spam comments a fortnight getting through it’s defenses. And it’s quite easy to...

PhotoDropper – Essential plugin for WordPress

It’s not always that I feel the need to drop everything I’m doing to try out some new software (ok, maybe it’s more common with me than with most people), but when I read about a plugin called PhotoDropper on BloggingCents, I just had to run off and try it....

Now on Firefox v3

So, I’ve done the deed and installed Firefox v3 beta 3.? It seems pretty stable, haven’t had any issues in the 5 minutes I’ve been running it, and I’m loving all the new functionality. I love the location bar (see left) and particularly like the Page Info dialog box; that...

My WordPress Plugins

Just wanted to take a few minutes to draw the attention of my readers to some of the more popular WordPress plugins I’ve written over the last couple of years. They would be of interest to you if you run your own blog on WordPress. So here goes: Comment Email...

WP Auctions: Fee Free Auctions For Your Blog

Every once in a while some new product comes along which changes the way that things are done. This time it’s eBay’s dominance in the online auctions market that is about to be shaken! Everyone can now auction off their products, stuff in their garage and run an auction blog...

To WordPress or not to WordPress

Ian Fernando just asked a question on V7N as to whethr to go for WordPress or not. His questions are specifically about? extensibility, customization and spam. Here’s what I responded: Easy to manipulate: WordPress has an extensible API that has allows 3rd party developers to write plugins for it. There’s...

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