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FeedEntryHeader - Stop Scrapers?

09.Dec.07 | 2 Comments

One of my largest pet peeves has to be feed scraping. It is a habit lower life forms have of scraping my RSS into their blogs and presenting it as their own content.
That drives me nuts. Not that I have an issue with sharing what I write — this is all under the Creative Commons [...]

Defensio Counts Differently Than I Do

25.Nov.07 | 9 Comments

I’ve been experimenting with the latest Anti-Spam WordPress plugin: Defensio. In general, it seems to work pretty well, but I have noticed some oddities.
Honestly, it really does work well. At first it didn’t seem to be learning very quickly — even marked one of my own comments as spam! Ouch, that hurt a [...]

Downtime

01.Oct.07 | 1 Comment

Apologies for the downtime during the last 18 hours.  Apparently one of the new tag-related plugins I’m trying out is running amuck and using up all of my db connections with very long running queries.
I’m working with my host to see if we can figure out which plugin is the issue — host wants to [...]

More Plugins and One Offs

12.Jul.07 | 8 Comments

Following up from last night’s post, here’s a bit more on the WordPress Plugin front. This time, with a bit of a wrinkle…
One plugin that I didn’t mention yesterday was WP-Cache2 — a classic that’s often used to help reduce server loads and enable a a blog to handle larger amounts of traffic. I [...]

Current Crop of Plugins

11.Jul.07 | 14 Comments

I think I might have a somewhat painful addiction to plugins — whenever I see one that looks interesting and I just can’t resist giving it a try. Many come and many go, but here’s the current crop.
Warning: I have a ton!

Show Top Commentators — I added this one just today. Since I’m no [...]

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