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WordPress Wednesday: LaunchPad January 28th, 2009 @ 9:15 am PST

LaunchPad is a killer WordPress “domain parking” theme. It’s the perfect way to let visitors know that something cool is “coming soon” when you’ve registered a domain name but haven’t yet had a chance to actually build anything. This high-impact, minimalist layout (example) comes pre-configured with two RSS subscription options — via email or feed […]

WordPress Theme August 19th, 2008 @ 2:36 pm PDT

About WordPress themes

WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Older Posts May 6th, 2008 @ 3:38 pm PDT

In which I explain a bit of MySQL

Akismet Works April 2nd, 2008 @ 6:09 am PDT

I installed Akismet here at the beginning of the Fall of 2006. I really don’t know how I lived without it. I emptied the queue about seven hours ago, and when I got to the office this morning there were already almost 1500 comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks flagged as spam. Akismet has protected your site […]

WordPress Tags March 26th, 2008 @ 8:47 pm PDT

I was very happy to see that the WordPress developers included the ability to “tag” posts. For a long time I’ve been using my own bastardized version of Bunny’s Technorati Tags to add tags to this site. A few days ago I decided to bite the bullet and convert to using the tag system that […]

WordPress Gunning-Fog Analysis PlugIn March 31st, 2007 @ 9:09 am PDT

In which I build a quick plugin

Akismet and Comment Spam January 11th, 2007 @ 9:00 am PST

In which I recommend a good WordPress plugin

Three Simple Steps to Fix Technorati Tags December 11th, 2006 @ 6:52 am PST

In which I explain how to improve a plugin

Tags and Technorati December 7th, 2006 @ 10:39 am PST

A little while ago I cobbled together a tagging system here on the site. The tags appear at the bottom of each post and you can use them to find related content. For some reason, though, they aren’t being caught by Technorati. I’m pretty sure I followed their specs exactly, but no dice. Every time […]