You might remember my ranting about the JSSpamBlock plugin of Paul Butler, thinking of porting it to the actual WP release. I have decided to keep an eye on it fixing various bugs for keeping it compatible. JSSpamBlock extends the comment form with a simple input field for checking if you’re human or not. As this function uses […]
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JSSpamBlock is (really) dead now?
After Paul Butler’s Announcement of the end of JSSpamBlock maintenance, I was not really worried about the plugin itself, as it still did its job in a perfect way. If you think back, there are enough unmaintained plugins around, doing their job perfectly within a current WordPress installation. But you know about theory and reality by now, because […]
HeadlineAnimator
If I have to think back at the times I have started developing the HeadlineAnimator for having a fine signature at the discussion boards, I tend to look at the documentation I wrote those times as I cannot exactly remember all of the details by now. But there’s one thing I know for sure: The code still works […]
Cutting back WordPress
Since the last release of wordpress, I have had to look through the code again for getting rid of those unneeded killer features. One of them is called revisions. Instead of coding useless stuff, they should listen more to the community and what they need. But let’s get back to our topic and fire up an editor for […]
WordPress, Joomla or Drupal?
Today it is important to have a website with the latest bells and whistles and to show what you got. But all this requires much work if done the old and static way. Many sites are using CMS systems as a backend to make it easier maintaining everything. Today I would like to introduce and compare three of […]
Visiting blogs by SQL Query
Honestly, it is interesting to get to know the people, leaving comments on blogs. It is a good way to get to know new people. But how to get all that links together without digging through every comment? Right! Ask the database: SELECT DISTINCT comment_author, comment_author_url FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_author_url IS NOT NULL ORDER BY comment_author; This query’s […]