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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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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I’ve taken the plunge and updated my blogs to WordPress 2.1. The whole process went pretty smoothly, and despite my reservations, all my plugins appear to be working correctly. The only thing I noticed was that the link category IDs had changed, so I had to modify my sidebar.php file to match the new category [...]

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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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Thanks to Twan over at New Media Wanderings for this interesting post on how to boost your Technorati rankings. Basically it is a way to promote lesser known blogs and in the process gain potential new readers to your site. It can also work the other way and enable you to discover blogs you may [...]

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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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WordPress are now offering users the chance to map their WordPress blog to another domain. My blog is currently technicalitch.wordpress.com. I have a separate technical-itch.co.uk domain registered elsewhere which currently redirects to technicalitch.wordpress.com. This is advance warning that I plan to map my blog to the technical-itch.co.uk domain later on today. If the move is [...]

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