In episode 4 of the WebBoy comic series, Quinten finds himself overworked after working on customizing his contact form for days only to experience one problem after another. View the comic to see how Quinten gets help on getting email messages delivered. P.S. that ugly thing called spam makes an appearance in the comic.
Akismet has started an experimental partner program. Based on the information presented, it looks like this is aimed more at consultants who deal with clients and instead of possibly using their own Akismet API key, they’ll now be able to refer them to Akismet via a special link which indicates the three plans that users…
While reading a discussion that was being had by the folks who populate the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding the difference between the aside and status post formats, Mike Schinkel commented on a practice that I think needs to be stopped. I’ve been noticing that some themers have decided to implement “link” post formats such…
Snowshoe Magazine has recently switched over their website from a Coldfusion installation into WordPress with the help of Serafini Studios. During the switch, Gabriel created custom code that exported 1,131 articles in 48 different categories as well as 1,184 events from ColdFusion into WordPress. According to the sites source-code, a custom theme is being used…
Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Oli from WPLift.com has gone through the work of collecting all of the infographics related to WordPress that have been released so far this year into one long post. What’s neat about seeing all of these images on one page is the diversity in displaying relatively the same information.…
Well this is interesting. The team behind DevPress are planning to launch a plugin/theme review service. During the first phase of the launch, efforts will focus on theme reviews only. Justin Tadlock mentions that one of the driving factors behind the decision to launch the service is to fill the voids that exist with the…
Kevin Muldoon of WPMods.com has announced that he has relaunched the forum section of the site. The forums disappeared earlier this year due to spam and the stand alone version of bbPress not having a modern feature set. I thought Kevin would have given the newly released bbPress plugin a try when he relaunched but…
When do you think that WordPress is going to completely rewrite their code base so it’s an actual CMS instead of a hacked together glorified blogging system? I find I get that question quite a lot and it annoys me. WordPress is being rewritten all the time. Check out the development that happens on Trac.…
It’s been a long time since I’ve visited the Kvetch page on WordPress.org but recently, I discovered that the page loads a random Kvetch that was submitted by a user upon each page load. Think of this form as an anonymous way to complain or get something off your chest related to WordPress. Now, I’ve…
Sucuri Security has a great post that begins to review the aftermath of the massive exploitation of the TimThumb image re sizer script. According to their calculations, about a million pages have been compromised by the script but when filtering down their results for the past thirty days, there were over 200,000 results. The exploitation…
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