Although Akismet does a fine job of combatting comment spam, I was still getting a fair bit until a day or so ago.
What’s different?
I discovered, quite by accident, a great little plugin called Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress. What this plugin does is compliment Akismet so that when Akismet identifies a comment as spam, [...]

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The great thing about using WordPress as your website engine is that it can be extended to be so much more than just any old blog with the use of plugins. Today I’ve decided to list the plugins I’m using and to pay tribute to the generosity and hard work of WordPress plugin developers who [...]

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As much as I love WordPress, this is getting real old fast. One of the best things to happen for users was the one-click upgrade from within your WordPress dashboard. However, for both Wordpress 2.9 and 2.9.1, I’ve had to manually upgrade. And judging from what others have posted over at WordPress.org forums, I’m not [...]

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So far I’ve updated 3 of my blogs to WordPress 2.9 and for all 3 upgrades the automatic upgrade did not work and I had to do it manually via FTP. That one problem alone is going to drive users crazy, I just know it.
The other problem I ran into was I had to get [...]

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The reason WordPress has become so popular is that it is easy to build your own valuable web property using a self-hosted WordPress blog as your website engine. A web property – like any property – becomes valuable over time as you continue to build it and feed it quality original content and you drive [...]

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