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Dealing With Duplicate Content Issues on WordPress Comments Pages

April 18, 2009

I saw a tweet today about WordPress comment page duplication issues related to SEO. While the word is still out as to just how much damage it does or doesn’t do to your ability to get found by the Great G, this specific problem is relatively easily fixed — and not by disabling the paged [...]

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Why I’ll Probably Never Visit Your Blog Again

April 12, 2009

In my office, I run on a 8mbs cable connection. In other words, about a bazillion times faster than dialup. I don’t pay the extra money for this kind of speed just because I want the technology. I do it because page load times make a difference in my day.
So when I visit your blog, [...]

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A Colored Tag Cloud For Your WordPress Blog

April 8, 2009

I needed a colored tag cloud widget, and I couldn’t find one that I liked. So I cooked up another one. You can see it in action over in the sidebar. You can configure colors, sizes – you can even use it in your theme instead of as a widget. Or you can do both.
See [...]

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WordPress Security Tip #1 – Get Rid of the Admin Account

April 8, 2009

A number of people have asked me for some more detail on how to implement some of the suggestions I made in this post. So, here is the first in the series of in-depth tutorials on how to better secure your WordPress blog.
It’s important to secure your WordPress blog. We’re bombarded daily with tales of [...]

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Twavatar – Twitter Avatars For Your WordPress Blog

March 25, 2009

An update: Twitter has seen fit to deprecate (discontinue) the search function that this plugin depended on. Until I can come up with some kind of solution, you should deactivate the plugin if you’re using it; you might have some unexpected errors.
Today is release day for Twavatar – Twitter Avatars For Your WordPress Blog.
It is [...]

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TweetSweetR for WordPress – a full-featured Twitter plugin for your blog

March 23, 2009

UPDATE: 0.6.0 is now out. Latest version add support for substituting Twittter avatar for standard Gravatar. If a Twitter avatar isn’t found, defaults to standard WP options.
UPDATE: Ha! Well, this is embarrassing. TweetSweetR is now at version 0.5.1 already
A few months ago, the twitter world was all a-twitter (I know, bad pun) about [...]

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WordPress 2.7.1

February 11, 2009

The long-awaited (!) first maintenance and bug-fix release for WordPress 2.7 is out. You can see the announcement here: WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.7.1, or download direct here.
The trac list of fixed tickets is here and the  full list of changes between 2.7 and 2.7.1 is here.
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Review of “Twitter Avatars In Comments Wordpress Plugin”

January 22, 2009

Smashing Magazine recently released a WordPress “plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments in WordPress blogs”.
While I like the idea, the implementation leaves a little bit to be desired. Comments to the release post indicate that some effort is being made to address the shortcomings in the plugin code, but as yet those [...]

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