A couple of weeks ago, SixApart launched a new blog anti-spam software called TypePad Anti-Spam which aims to compete with Akismet and Defensio at combating comment spam in both TypPad/MovableType blogs and WordPress blogs.
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A new WordPress release is just out on version 2.5.1 which fixes tons of bugs and a patch to a very important security vulnerability specifically if your blog is open to user registration. Those on WordPress is strongly encouraged to upgrade.
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They say that the more popular you are, the more attacks you get. This is so true with WordPress right now. The massive code injection and hidden links on WordPress blogs are getting some serious coverage and just tonight I discovered another form of attack — the WP Trackback Spam flooding.
Been upgrading dozens of blogs in the last 24 hours to the latest WordPress 2.5 Final Release. Broke some of the custom hacks I previously done but all in all, it’s a worthwhile update. I just hope they’d find a way to do away with the chmod+777 folder permissions on the uploads as it’s causing people headaches with security issues and hack attempts.
After trying out the initial release of WordPress 2.5 RC1 on some smaller blogs, I was excited to try them here as well. The timing was good since WP RC2 just got out and I must say the newer features are very impressive.
Up until now, I haven’t had any close experience doing server-side optimization of a highly-trafficked blog. When I say “highly-trafficked”, I mean it’s like being on the front page of Digg all day, 7 days a week.
It’s always a constant challenge how to protect our original content from site scrapers. It’s even harder no that blogs are easier to scrape because of full RSS feeds.
For sometime now, readers have been complaining that their comments are being accidentally flagged by Akismet as spam. Despite repeated un-flagging, their next comment still hits the spam bin. The false positives are getting really annoying (and time consuming too).
Continue reading ‘How to Solve a Problem like Akismet False Positives?’
As someone who maintains hundreds of WordPress blogs for myself, friends, and clients, the number 1 problem that I’ve always encountered and have given me tons of headaches and sleepless nights are WP Plugins.
Matt of Automattic has just announced that it has upgraded all WordPress.com account’s upload quota from 50MB to 3GB. That’s 60 fold increase overnight.
Was having time debate with several of the participants here in my workshop on which blogging platform has better usability and functionality. Of course, I was pushing for WordPress.com because of two things — scale and upgradability. However, others are saying Blogger is better. I haven’t used Blogger in like 4 years now and yes I know that it has improved since then. What do you think?
Only a few people may have noticed this but since WordPress 2.3 came out, they switched the WP Dashboard Incoming Links from Technorati to Google BlogSearch. Why WordPress decided to make this move is yet unknown until this day.
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We’re all familiar with Akismet since it comes loaded with every WordPress installation. Aside from that, there’s not much choice for an anti-spam defense for our blogs anywhere.
After upgrading this server to PHP 5 and mySQL 5 last week, I tested a new version of the WordPress caching system.
On WordPress.com, that is. Matt Mullenweg on Automattic recently announced a WP Theme Marketplace on WordPress.com. Now you can sell premium themes on millions of bloggers running on WordPress.com.
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Nice to hear good projects get nice attention and some more lovin’. Matt announces that Gravatar has just been acquired by Automattic, same company behind WordPress.
The long awaited release of Dexter, WordPress 2.3 is here. The upgraded features are awesome, but so are the things you need to look out for when upgrading to this version of the software.
Here are the highlights, on top of the 351 bugs fixed:
Continue reading ‘WordPress 2.3 Dexter: Major Update, Major Headache?’
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