This is a notice that I have released updated versions for the Bot-Allow-Content and CC-Configurator WordPress plugins. Read about the bug fixes in their changelogs. For those who are not familiar with these plugins, here is a small description: Bot-Allow-Content: Makes it possible to set which user-agents will be able to read the full content…
This is a quick notice that I have updated the Comment-Policy plugin for WordPress. The new 0.3 version adds some extra functionality by dynamically modifying the new comment-form field’s name with Javascript, which seems to add an extra barrier to comment submission by bots. Also, I have updated the metadata in all of the WordPress…
Some months ago, I had a talk on IRC with someone who had created a useful plugin for WordPress, which shows performance related information. The plugin is called Performance Probe. Its output is saved in text files. I had written a quick python script, for demonstration purposes only, that uses performance probe’s output and RRDTool…
I use MediaWiki as a personal note-taking, documentation and code snippet storage system. This was started as an experiment, but a wiki proved to be a decent solution for the above tasks. This is a small checklist, mainly for my own reference, to follow when upgrading MediaWiki.
This info applies for the registered users in WordPress. WordPress includes an option in the user management panel, with which an author can define what name is displayed when publishing posts or writing comments on the blog. Although changing the displayed name has an immediate effect on the posts, the displayed author’s name for the…
I write this post as a reply to all those who have emailed me the last 2-3 months about the WordPress plugins that are available on this web site. I really appreciate your feedback. Many of your suggestions have been great, but there seem to be some problems, which I outline below:
This is a WordPress plugin that forces commenters to check an extra required field in the comment form indicating that they have read and agreed to the web site’s comment policy. Please note that this plugin has been discontinued.
This is the homepage of the Simple-Recent-Comments plugin for WordPress which provides a template tag that displays a list of the last comments posted on your blog.
This is the historical homepage of the Creative-Commons-Configurator plugin for WordPress, which lets you easily license your content and media under a Creative Commons or other license.
This is a WordPress plugin that automatically adds the "tag" relation to the URLs of your categories as generated by WordPress. Please note that this plugin has been discontinued.