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January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

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January 30th, 2009

New on Lynda.com: WordPress.com 2.7 Essential Training

New training videos for WordPress.com users.

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January 16th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part II

Part II: When Comments Go Wrong

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January 9th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part I

Part I: Understanding Comments and Pingpacks

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November 29th, 2007

All Pingbacks Must Die

I’ve had my last pingback spam.

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November 1st, 2007

CommentLuv

A WordPress plugin that helps commenters promote their own blogs.

Yesterday, while following up on a pingback — I get a ton of pingback spam from sploggers — I discovered a legitimate link to an article on my blog. (Imagine that!) I decided to thank the author of the post linked to mine with

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April 12th, 2007

Fighting Spam — All Kinds

How I deal with comment and pingback spam.

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January 31st, 2007

Full Text vs. Summary Feeds

What the hoopla is all about.

I’m encouraging subscribers now and it’s a full text feed, so I invite you to subscribe.

It’s a hot topic among bloggers. Full feeds or Summary feeds? I’ve exchanged some words with a reader here about it, but I’ve always been sitting on the fence.

RSS Feed Basics

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January 2nd, 2007

Stop Pinging Your Own WordPress Blog!

A problem resolved becomes a new problem to resolve.

A while back, I complained that the ping and trackback features on my site wouldn’t work. I could get trackbacks and pingbacks, but I couldn’t send them. I even wrote a TrackBack Troubleshooting post about it which has become one of the most widely read

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September 14th, 2006

Trackback & Pingback Works!

An unexpected bonus for moving WordPress to GoDaddy.com.

As I reported in several entries of my blog (“Trackback Test,” “Trackback Tutorial,” “Trackback Troubleshooting,” and “Another Trackback Test“) I was never able to get WordPress’s TrackBack and Pingback features to work correctly on my server-installed blog. I know I was using the feature correctly because

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April 15th, 2006

Trackback Troubleshooting

I spend most of a day trying to figure out why I can’t send trackbacks from my blog.

If you follow this blog, you’ll know I’m working on a book about WordPress with Miraz Jordan. We split the chapters down the middle, with me getting the first half and Miraz getting the second. One

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April 14th, 2006

Trackback Tutorial

A good trackback tutorial on another Web site.

The tutorial, which is quite clear, can be found at WordPress TrackBack Tutorial. it includes a good deal of information about WordPress’s trackback and pingback features, including what they do and how to use them.

I looked up the article because I couldn’t get the feature

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