Blogging
My Top 10 WordPress Plug-ins I won’t miss
Here is the list of WordPress plug-ins, that i personally don’t wanna miss in every WordPress installation. Top 10 Plug-Ins Askimet DoFollow GoogleAnalytics GoogleXMLSitemaps Instant Upgrade Simple Database Bakup Simple Trackback Validation Similar Posts 404-Notifier Share-This-Classic or similar Social book-marker. Description Askimet should be nothing new for every blogger. Else DoFollow. I see often that [...]
Update your wordpress with one click
How many lifetime people spend to administrate their software. Upgrading, updating, patches, bug-fixes etc. Also in case of WordPress new Versions arise pretty often, and it’s recommended to upgrade, cause several security relevant fixes or some very cool features you was long time waiting for, might be included in next release. I’m not kidding with [...]
Movable Type is open source
Pretty cool is that Movable Type is now available as open source.
Cool WordPress PlugIn from Yahoo!
These days blogging is in. And every thing that is in of cause attracts big fishes. So Yahoo! makes next step to be closer to growing blogger community. Yahoo! presented new Yahoo Shortcuts WordPress plug-in. This allows automatically add recommend badges and photos from flickr to your blog post, but you still decide how it [...]
Semantic spam Attack
Today i notice five new comments on my blog that passed spam-filter and waited for approving. They all seemed to be OK. Example is: Yes we all know about that, but you published this on 2005, now it became very famous, moreover it very difficult to handle , all keys are very different so new [...]
I was hacked, thank open source
Maybe you notice the downtime of this site last days. Unfortunately it was hacked by someone for unknown purpose. The attackers uses some exploit in wordpress or some plug in or maybe of k2 theme. Some malfunction of these open source components was used out, so that attacker have added lines like echo passthru($_GET[1]); to [...]
“NoFollow” considered harmful
Background The rel=”nofollow” attribute in a-Tags was intitally proposed by google and was supported by MSN and Yahoo! The intial intention was to stem spam-links, that can largely occure in some webpages, especially blog comments. The famious blog engines founded that idea very cool and mosst of them are setting the nofollow attirbut out of [...]
XML Code-highlighting
Today i wrote new Code-highlighting extension for Chili & Enzymes feature. THe result of it can be seen in the previous Article. It’s pretty fine, all tags, ![CDATA[..]] , DOCTYPES, and more should be highlighted. Everybody is welcome to download my Chilli & Enzymes Receipts. If you got torubles to get somethign work, just ask! [...]
Pingbacks, Trackbacks and the backgroud
WordPress supports Pingback and Trackback out of the box. Not familiar with that? Then check the explanation on the WordPress site or very easy explanation of both in German. The both things of course have some disadvantages. They can lead to some spam trackbacks. There is some solution, in a form of Plugin that validates [...]
Style Update
I just updated the style of my blog. Now its compatibly with current style of my homepage. The idea is that design should not be overloaded making this blog readable. But it could be still buggy at some places. Please let me know of you find some bug! Of course any comments are welcome! The [...]