The Jotspot folks have a new blog, running WordPress. I got to meet Joe and Graham (co-founders of Jotspot, and Excite back in the day) on Tuesday and it was quite inspiring. Graham Spencer also has his own WP blog. I tried to check out Joe Kraus’s blog as well but it seems to be down with a strange Squid error.
Category Archives: WordPress
No Spam
By the way, I’ve deactivated all of the spam plugins I was using and I’m relying on just the new measures built-in to WordPress 1.5. So far it’s been going very well.
Plugin Repository
Announcing the WordPress Plugin Repository, since the announcement I’ve been adding dozens of new plugins and developers. This is Open Source development and collaboration at its best.
Apple Announcements
Well the Shuffle and mini look pretty rocking, and both seem absolutely something I’d want to by. The Shuffle fits my listening habits pretty well and the mini looks like it could make a pretty swank gateway server for my living room. (I have a big beige box running Gentoo in there now.) Hook up two big external drives and you’re good to go. In other news, the official Apple WordPress Student blog has been pretty busy lately. When the story about it first broke there wasn’t a whole lot of content up there, but now it has filled out nicely.
New PunBB
PunBB is the forum software I recommend most people use, and they just released a new version. They are, as far as I know, only the second system to release a table-less thread view. (The first being wp.org/bbPress.) They took a different approach than I did, and if you view the source it’s actually pretty heavy markup, but this is putting valid forums into the hands of many more people. Looks like an excellent release. Hat tip: Alex.
Slashdotting
When I saw Giga Om at Jay’s lunch yesterday he happily informed me that his site, which is now on WordPress 1.5, handled Slashdottings two days in a row and all of the traffic from the LJ/6A story without a hiccup. I asked if he was running Staticize which increases the performance of WP significantly and he said no. (!)
WordPress Planet Back
The WordPress Planet aggregator is back, though it still needs a better design.
Livejournal and Xanga
LivePress is “a Live Journal compatibility and synchronization plugin. It is designed to let WordPress users continue to use their Live Journal accounts with minimal hassle. It adds support for moods, music, synching posts between WordPress and Live Journal accounts and implements the lj-user and lj-cut tags in WordPress.” Then there’s Croissanga, which provides similar functionality for Xanga, another journaling site with millions of users that is frequently overlooked. Hat tip: Wordlog.
LinkRank Smackdown
According to PubSub, I am suddenly much, much less popular. Was it something I said? Fortunately this has no correlation with my actual traffic. Hat tip: Weblog Tools Collection.
Trackback Spam
The flood of truly vile Trackback spam today sadly confirms what I was worried about months ago: if we lock down commenting (with things like WP Hashcash and Typekey) it’ll just push them to Trackback. All the captcha in the world won’t fix Trackback. Our last line of defense is the content-based filters like Spam Karma, Spaminator, and Three Strikes.
WordPress App of Year
Mike and Clay wrote in that WordPress has been named Web Application of the Year by ArsTechnica. Wow, that’s quite an honor for the entire team.
SpamAssassin Plugin
This new WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin speaks to spamd directly and doesn’t have the Perl dependencies the old one did.
Om Malik on WordPress
It looks like Business 2.0 writer Om Malik is back on WordPress.
Spanish WordPress History
My Spanish isn’t what it used to be but this history of WordPress looks good.
Three Strikes
The new Three Strikes WP spam plugin has bayesian filtering now.
IllustRender
IllustRender is a WordPress plugin that “replaces illustration code in your posts with the actual illustration.
Philly Burbs Blogs
Daniel writes in that Bucks County Courier Times has a WordPress-powered blog section that looks pretty heavily customized. I’m told it’s one of the larger papers over there.
Total Plugins
Carthik estimates there are at least 400 WordPress plugins. If so, we’ve got about 15% of those in the repository already.
Support Sarvodaya
This comment from Indi says that “Blogs are fun for leisure, but they are saving lives right now in Sri Lanka.” Sarvodaya looks like an excellent organation to support in this crisis. See also: Bloggers without Borders.
2005 Bloggies
Nominations for the 2005 Bloggies are open, this is the real weblog awards, not that thing that was making rounds the other month. You don’t have to fill in everything to nominate but at least do “Best Application for Weblogs” and be sure to check the box at the bottom that you’d like to be on the panel. Only takes a minute. 😉