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Category Archives: WordPress
Kramer Plugin
The Kramer Plugin fills out your comments with information from Technorati and their built-in referrer analyzer to give you the most comprehensive look possible at all feedback to your posts. Sounds pretty cool, I may have to try it out here or on the WP dev blog.
AJAX and CSRF
When working on some new AJAX features for bbPress and WordPress we’ve noticed that AJAX requests don’t seem to send HTTP_REFERER values. We check referrers as one level of protection against cross-site-scripting, or XSS, so when they’re not set we aren’t able to use that value. How are most people using AJAX protecting against XSS? It seems the same things we’re doing to make things easily accesible in a dynamic fashion are also opening new vectors for attack.
Invite Giveaway
Well you can buy one on ebay for $25 (and growing), you can guess how much the ebay invite is going to go for, or you can read Photo Matt. 🙂 I’ll send an invite to the person who leaves the best comment or ping about how they would use their WordPress.com blog, if they had one. I’ll pick a comment 12 hours from this post, so about 1:15 PM PST.
Rogue Switches
The Rogue Librarian (better known as Carrie Bickner) has switched to WordPress as well as a new design. Looks lovely!
Website You Needed
Invite on eBay
Sitepoint Switches
Sitepoint has switched their blogs to WordPress, which I find amusing since in 2001 I joined SitePoint to learn more about web stuff and their PHP/MySQL tutorial was probably the first I used. Here they talk about integrating WP with vBulletin. Hat tip: EasyRew and Josh Lavin via email.
WYSIWYG Screenshots
Owen has a nice animated screenshot of the new WYSIWYG features in WordPress. By the way, I’ll be doing the first public demo of WP 1.6 and WordPress.com tomorrow morning at 8 AM at the Blog Business Summit.
Getting Close
The WordPress download counter is about to break half a million!
Blogging BBS
I’m blogging about the Blog Business Summit over on my WordPress.com blog. Here’s the feed.
Russ Switches
Russ switched to WordPress and has written a little bit about it. His permalinks are still a little funky, but they match his old system and in terms of content the transition from his custom CMS seems to have been pretty seemless.
Search WP with Firefox Extensions
Plugins to search both the WordPress Codex and WordPress Support forums from your Firefox search bar. Cool!
WordPress.com Invites
WP Job
Content Sutra is looking for a WordPress hacker, a very high-profile job which would be a real coup for whoever gets it.
UIE
UIE has a great looking new WordPress blog called Brain Sparks.
Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi has switched to WordPress too. Hat tip: Niall.
Zoo Blog
“The best zoo in the world has weblogs now.” The new San Diego Zoo blog is powered by WordPress too. Hat tip: Matt Haughey.
Podshow
The buzz is Podshow got over 8 million dollars for their company. As was noted on Photo Matt before, “all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network.” Regardless of that, I’m wishing them the best in their new venture. They have a killer board.
More Trackback Spam
Came across two interesting posts today Trackback spam a nightmare and Fighting Trackback spam. Although I appreciate the praise for all we’ve done thus far in WordPress to address these problems, I think we’ve got a lot left to do and this is still an area of very active development.