Archive for 2008

Matt Mullenweg #14 most influential on the web – BusinessWeek

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September 29th, 2008
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Matt Mullenweg #14 most influential on the web – BusinessWeek.: According to BusinessWeek, Matt Mullenweg is one of the 25 most influential people on the web. He shares the accolade with the likes of Steve Ballmer, Steve jobs, Joi Ito and Jon Stewart. At first I thought that this was a ranking much like the 50 most important people of the web from PC World but this appears to be more of a collection. Matt is labelled as “The Publisher” and WordPress as “the blogging service that most serious bloggers turn to”. The associated article is more about how the web is magnifying the influence of jon Stewart and others like him in engaging the American Public in online discourse about the political campaigns. Be sure to check out the whole slide show.

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WLTC Reader Survey Results

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September 29th, 2008
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We recently ran a reader survey to have you answer some basic questions that we had about Weblog Tools Collection and would like to thank all those who participated in the survey. We were not looking for specific answers but were trying to gauge some sentiments and help shape ourselves to serve you better. We are also looking for a better understanding of where we should spend our resources to provide the most value to our readers. In that spirit, most of the answers were helpful and some of the comments made us look a little closely at the mirror. Here are the results from the survey Where did you first hear about Weblog Tools Collection? WordPress Dashboard 76.2% WordPress Planet 4.8% Google Search 11.9% Link from Another site 4.8% User Suggestions/Discussions 2.4% Other (please specify) 0.0% Are you subscribed to Weblog Tools Collection to receive daily updates? Subscribed via […]

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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish

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September 29th, 2008
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WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2: Search box, Favorites menu, Future Publish.: You wanted more surveys and you got them! This time the WordPress 2.7 UI survey is about the search box, the add new post button and the future publish button. The poll is set for 5000 responses and will close thereafter. Have you voted yet?

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/28

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September 28th, 2008
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G4B Photo Gallery G4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword. Avatars for Comment Feeds It will allow you to add avatars or gravatars of comment-authors to the comment-feeds of your WordPress-blog. WP Mollom This is a plugin that brings the anti-spam power of Mollom to WordPress. WP-Mollom protects your website against comment and trackback spam. The difference with other spam services is that Mollom takes care of everything. The idea is to relieve you, the administrator, editor, maintainer,… of whatever moderation or clean up tasks you would normally need to perform in order to keep your blog spamfree. DashboardZone This plugin will help you and your readers to keep you on track for reaching your targets. We created this wordpress plugin that monitors the various […]

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/26

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September 26th, 2008
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WordPress Amazon Widget Shortcodes This plugin is made for you if you use Amazon Affiliate links (aka Amazon Associates, Amazon Partenaires etc.). comment2tweet comment2tweet is a WordPress plugin which will automatically post new comments from a WordPress blog to a twitter account. The comment posted to twitter will be an excerpt 140 characters long, and includes a short url link back to the comment. wpAFFI Simple and rapid technique to hide your affiliate links. Smart 404 Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the 404 template can use some template tags to provide […]

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WordPress Theme Releases for 09/25

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Aqueous Three column, blue and white theme with a fluid later, designed for higher resolutions. Talian Reloaded Talian is a 3 colomn premium theme with several new features (Post styling options, mini social bookmakers) and option pages e.g. custom sitemap, custom archives and custom link pages WP Foto Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page. Mediterranean Mediterranean is a two column, widget ready WordPress theme, with right-hand sidebar, from an original XHTML template by DemusDesign.

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/24

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September 24th, 2008
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PhotoQ PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch upload functionality. Admin Drop Down Menus Admin Drop Down Menus rearranges the existing default Dashboard/Admin menus into javascript driven dropdowns, making navigation around your WordPress Admin quicker, easier and considerably more efficient. Viper’s Video Quicktags Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. Tabbed Widgets Tabbed interfaces are the most common on newspaper type website where they can save a lot of vertical space and make it look less cluttered. This plugin allows you to create them. Hatena Star Hatena Star […]

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Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate

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September 23rd, 2008
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Automattic Has Acquired IntenseDebate’s Enhanced Comment System: Automattic has acquired IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount according to TechCrunch and this post on the IntenseDate blog. They are planning to delve into a closed beta once again while they ramp up their hardware for an onslaught of new users from Automattic. Plans include a tight integeration with WordPress (I am assuming with WordPress.com initially and maybe as a plugin for WordPress.org, thus the need for ramping up resources) but will continue to exist as a separate service and will be available for other platforms beside WordPress. Expect more news on this front very soon. Matt and Toni also talk about the acquisition.

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Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?

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September 23rd, 2008
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It is no secret that Weblog Tools Collection is a magnet for comment spam. I am not sure if this is something to brag about but Akismet has caught over 3,588,568 spam comments as of writing this article. We spend a considerable amount of time moderating comments on this blog and lately the time spent has increased many fold. Let me explain. Since automattic spamming of blogs has mostly been reduced to a trickle due to the likes of Akismet, spammers are now individually targeting blog posts with highly relevant, and in many cases highly convincing comments. I moderated and subsequently spammed a comment today that was over a hundred words long, on the pros and cons of one of the themes on our daily theme posts. I thought the comment was a very well written review of theme until I looked closely. The URI of the poster was a […]

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