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December 28th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part III

Part III: Identifying Comment Spam

May 31st, 2009

May 2009 Links

Links for the month of May.

January 31st, 2009

January 2009 Links

Links for the month of January.

January 20th, 2009

Turning Off a Plugin’s Update Reminder

Hacking it might be better than ignoring it.

January 16th, 2009

Blogging Basics: Comment Spam, Part II

Part II: When Comments Go Wrong

January 14th, 2009

Why WordPress Plugin Updates Aren’t Always a Good Thing

When updates go wrong.

October 31st, 2008

October 2008 Links

October 2008 Links.

April 8th, 2008

Upgrade WordPress Plugins Automatically

One of the great new features of WordPress 2.5.

March 26th, 2008

PluginManager 1.7.3 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

February 22nd, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part IV

Displaying a list of your recent Viddler videos in your WordPress blog.

February 12th, 2008

Video Blogging with Viddler and WordPress, Part I

What’s this all about?

February 11th, 2008

February 9 Links

Links worth following.

January 19th, 2008

January 19 Links

Links worth following.

January 13th, 2008

Bad Behavior/Digg Conflict

A problem and a fix.

January 13th, 2008

January 12 Links

Links worth following.

January 5th, 2008

January 7, 2008 Links

Links for the Week ending January 6, 2008.

December 31st, 2007

CommentLuv = SpammerLuv?

One drawback to a WordPress plugin.

December 6th, 2007

Locked Out of Your WordPress Blog?

Here’s a possible solution.

November 21st, 2007

Oops! or Redirecting to FeedBurner

A realize that I messed up the Maria’s Guides feeds and fix them. Sort of.

November 20th, 2007

How to Create a Gravatar

A few easy steps can get your custom image on gravatar-enabled blogs.

November 19th, 2007

RSSImport

A WordPress plugin to add links to RSS feeds.

November 15th, 2007

Deleting Spam from Your WordPress Blog

Marking it as spam isn’t enough to get rid of it.

November 2nd, 2007

Canon LiDE 30 Scanner with Photoshop CS3 on Intel Mac

Not a good combination.

I finally got around to installing my Canon LiDE 30 scanner — I know it’s cheap junk, but that’s all I need — on my iMac. Much to my surprise the driver installer didn’t see Photoshop as a place to install a plugin. So I manually installed it And then

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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 a comment.

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August 28th, 2007

Web Site Redesign: Fitting in My Photos

With 90+ photos appearing randomly in my old site’s header, I wasn’t about to leave them behind.

One of the reasons I chose the Cutline 3 Column Right theme for my site’s redesign is because I wanted a three column layout that was wider than my old site. Studies — including stats from all of the

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