Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

Keeping Google out of the WordPress backend

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Over the past few months we've noticed that more and more pages from inside the Wordpress backend are finding their way in to the Google index. This has always been a problem, but as Google seems to index more useless pages, and crackers get more sophisticated at finding vulnerabilities in ...

Epic Fail == Me

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Yes, I can admit when I make a mistake. In some cases even pretty earth shatteringly large mistakes. This time I pulled the trigger without doing enough due diligence and research, something I constantly tell people to do before they jump in to the deep end. So, what did I fail ...

Joost’s coup, or how Sociable was saved

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Joost de Valk released the newest version of Sociable with some major fixes. I was running the Andy Beard hack Anti-Social to resolve the busted StumbleUpon link and the noFollow issue. But Joost has taken things to the next level by simply exercising the GPL license and releasing a new update ...

More Wordpress Plugins

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

With this blog just starting up there is a lot of administriva to still get set up so you might expect to see a few more of these posts as I load the big ol' pig up and see just how much extra code you can hang off of Wordpress ...

Wordpress Plugins and Widgets

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Here is a quick list of the plugins and widgets I'm running here. Akismet - duh- spam sucks and Akismet doesn't Dofollow - Just because Google screwed up all things link related doesn't mean we need to follow their lead. Links are "good things" FeedSmith - Another must have plugin. FeedSmith makes getting ...