It’s been almost a month now since I installed the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin so time for the results. Absolutely zero spam has got past this plugin! I’ve got the Akismet plugin still enabled in case any spam got past the math protection, but Akismet hasn’t even needed to break into a sweat If [...]

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Ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 I’ve noticed the WordPress administration screen extremely slow. Editing or saving posts is particularly bad. I don’t know for sure whether the upgrade was to blame, or whether there is some issue with my web host – TextDrive, but the problem has only come to light since the [...]

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If you’ve recently installed or upgraded to WordPress 2.1 then you may be unaware of a change to how your feeds are handled. I recently noticed that my feeds were starting to get cut off at the point where I insert the the <–more–> tag on my posts. For anyone who doesn’t know, the <–more–> [...]

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Over the last few months the amount of spam comments I have been getting on this site has increased significantly. The Akismet anti-spam plugin does a great job of detecting this spam, but it still leaves me the job of scanning all the spam messages in case a comment has been detected as spam in [...]

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Everyone has been blogging about this today, but just in case you missed it, WordPress 2.1 has been released. This release includes several new features and over 550 bug fixes which you can read at your leisure using the above link. Technosailor has provided a nice overview of the new 2.1 release if you don’t [...]

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Hot on the heels of the WordPress 2.0.6 release comes another one, WordPress 2.0.7. This is what it says on the WordPress blog: “Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided [...]

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The latest version of WordPress, version 2.0.6 has been released to the public. This page will explain how to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.6. If you’re upgrading from WordPress 2.0.5 then the upgrade is very simple. This will page will explain how to upgrade from WordPress 2.0.5 to 2.0.6. The WordPress 2.0.6 release includes a number [...]

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Last month I was discussing how to boost your blog traffic. I’ve come across some more useful tips and tricks that I would like to share with you.

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