An online notebook
Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession.
Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s quick, easy, free and social with WordPress.com.
Good work!
After my posting on WordPress for Good, this page was brought to my attention. It states that:
For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if you’re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use "WordPress" in the domain name. Try using "wp" instead, or another variation. We’re not lawyers, but very good ones tell us we have to do this to preserve our trademark. Also many users have told us they find it confusing.
How utterly lame, and also inconsistent for an open source project. This is one of the few times I feel a bit let down by WordPress.
This reminds me a little of the Firefox logo and name copyright farrago. In my view, you should be open or not. An open source project setting rules on what people can and can’t do with a bunch of letters in a certain order is plain daft, in my view.
I’m leaving WordPress for Good where it is for now.
Big day for a WordPress fanboy like me – the latest version of the open source publishing platform has been released, with a much updated administration area amongst other innovations.
Here is a video explaining some of the changes:
I’d better get upgrading…
I’ve given DavePress yet another facelift. This one is a lot lighter and hopefully more friendly too.
Personally, I especially like the ‘adverts’ in the top right corner, pimping my social media wares, such as my newsletter, ReadWriteGov and LGSearch.
There is still some tidying up to do, but I’m nearly there…
Akismet is a plugin for WordPress (and a few other platforms) which helps combat the problem of comment spam. That when ne’erdowells come on your blog and post nonsense comments in the hope pick click the links in them to buy some viagra, or invest in a Nigerian lottery winning syndicate.
Dealing with this stuff can be a pain.
(I have often wondered how people who run blogs or forums about the uses of bedroom-performance enhancing drugs, or genuine Nigerian investments, manage their spam. How do you decide what is and isn’t?)
Akismet makes it easy by checking your comments against a central database, which records what everyone who uses the system has marked as spam, and then removes it from view. So, no alerts telling you that you need to deal with a new comment – if Akismet thinks it’s spam, you don’t need to know about it.
You can still check the quarantined list for false-positives though, if you want. Sometimes the service works a little too well.
Anyhow, I upgraded the Akismet plugin today here on WordPress, and was surprised to see a new tab on my admin panel for ‘Akismet Stats’:
And once you click it, it makes pretty interesting reading! There are graphs and tables of data. Well worth the upgrade just to see what causes spikes in your comment spam.