Category Archives: WordPress

The open source publishing platform I co-founded — development, releases, community, and the ecosystem.

Tramadol Attack

Spam, WordPress

Just had a spam attack, about 90 comments over the course of two hours I was away from the computer. Not a single one is visible because every one was caught by my filter. How to delete them all? Comments Mass edit mode → Search for IP → Check all → Delete checked. Basically less than five clicks to delete 90 comments. The search could have keyed on any part of the name, email, or comment. It took longer to write this sentence than it took to delete two hours of spammers work. This isn’t a new 1.3 feature, this has been in WordPress for months.

Sourceforge Woes

WordPress

Sourceforge seems to have borked parts of the WordPress CVS repository, replacing files with files from other projects. Needless to say, this makes the CVS a little more bleeding edge than normal. Looking into this now. Might be a good opportunity to move this last critical bit off Sourceforge and switch to Subversion.

Salon Article

WordPress

Blogging grows up, not as interesting as it could have been, but a good overview of Six Apart. When I talked to Farhod about two weeks ago I estimated around 15k WordPress blogs. Today the WP blog crawler has over 18,000 in its database. Six months ago the list was small enough to list every WordPress blog on the counter page. Nine months ago you could count the number of WP blogs on your hands. Since I started writing this entry 82 people have downloaded WordPress for free. It’s not where we’re at, it’s where we’re going.