Comment spam is a problem that hits many blog systems, but fortunately on WordPress there are some very robust ways to deal with this scourge. We’re building some important protections into 1.3 but in the meantime you should take action to protect yourself. Our own Podz has put together a great resource on the Codex…
Carthik Sharma has written an excellent guide for moving from Movable Type to WordPress. It walks you through step by step of downloading, installing, and understanding WordPress. I also like that it has pointers to a lot of documentation resources outside of wordpress.org. I also wanted to take this oppurtunity to say “howdy” to all…
The infamous Eric Meyer, as you may know, powers his blog with WordPress. In the course of customizing WordPress to meet his needs we chatted quite a bit and he extended the functions he needed to extend using the 1.2 plugin format, and he is now sharing his work with the community. See his Meyerweb…
I put together a quick method that allows you to redirect old Movable Type entries without leaving the old files around. The method, which uses .htaccess, is on the wiki, redirect MT links using .htaccess. Shelley used this with some modifications.
My introductory article on PHP, titled PHP for Designers, is now online at Digital Web. PHP is a fairly easy language to pick up and knowledge of how it works can be a big help when you’re using WordPress.
There has been some talk of cruft-free URIs again of late, so I thought I would post step-by-step directions for WordPress 1.0. Pay close attention, this will be very difficult. Login. Click “Options”. Click “Permalinks”. Enter your permalink structure into the box. I like the default one given, /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. Copy and paste the code it…
Mike checked in some bug fixes, but he’s now on vacation and banned from the CVS for the duration. 🙂 Michel (yes that one) and I tracked down a nasty bug that would create invalid characters from normal quotes. Alex has said he’s going to work on improving the quicktag code to be cursor aware…