I have finally put together all the information that I have received from the judges for the WordPress Plugin Competition and here are the results: Most Innovative Plugin Prize goes to Jack Born for Static Jack– $80 Most Outrageous Plugin Prize goes to Sam for Multiply– $80 Best Code in a plugin goes to Alex King for Popularity Contest– $80 Best Documentation for a plugin goes to Montie for LMB^Box Comment Quicktags– $80 A consolation prize goes to Nik for Kramer– Flickr Pro Account The Weblogs.us prize winners are: BOTD – $250 Andy Skelton Extract Terms – $250 Denis de Bernady Overall Winner of the Plugin Competition is Skippy for authoring Vhosts and Secure Login. He wins a brand spankin’ new Sony PSP from WeblogToolsCollection.com (or $270, whichever he chooses). Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. Please contact me at mark at wltc dot net to […]

From time to time I get comment spam that makes me think “Do these people actually think before they spam or are they all <insert expletive here>?” So my blog can be used as one of the methods of increasing the page rank/sales of a certain Pop Up Blocker called Pop Up Blocker. Blocking popups cannot be simple business and I do not sell Popup Blockers from this site but I guess I could. I wonder if this post will rate high on a search for Pop Up Blockers for Internet Explorer or for Popup Blockers for Internet Explorer. How about Pop-Up blocker for Internet Explorer? Do we list Popup Blocker for Mozilla or Pop Up Blocker for Firefox? Block all your Pop Ups by getting the software from Pop Up Blocker If you are getting here through a search on Popup Blockers or for Pop-Up Blocker or Pop Up […]

I have turned off all commenting on this blog till I can come up with an acceptable method to prevent spammers from DoSing the mysql server. On average yesterday, the server received ~10,000 comment spam post requests and thus the scattered downtime for the server. I need to prevent a database query for every comment request, somehow. Please email me if you have some ideas or already have something in place. Be back with comments soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. PS: I am not really looking for a spam filter (of which I have enough). I need something that would intercept spam comments before the commenting process starts and accesses the database. [EDIT] Back on again, please report any problems. Suggestions that I have found useful include: Apache mod_security, Spam Valve, Bad behavior, WP Hashcash and Referer Bouncer I have already implemented a couple of these and am in the […]

I apologize for the delay in the judging of the Plugin Competition. I am sure the judges are really busy and we will get the results soon. The time taken is due to the varied installs and the requirements of each of the entries. I hope to have all the results in and tallied and the winners announced by the end of this week. Most of the cause of the delay is probably my fault. I already have the results from two of the judges and waiting patiently on at least four others. No pressure. 😉

The WordPress Plugin Competition is being judged as we speak. I had anticipated unforeseen events in the personal/work life of the judges and that has turned out to be the case. As soon as I receive all the judging decisions, I will post the results and the winners. Just as I write this post, a couple are starting to trickle in. *anticipation*

🙂 Well?

Jan Weiß has translated the WordPress Backup/Restore Plugin for WordPress 1.5.x and would like to offer it as a download. He has also included a german .po file for the backup plugin. All of the features remain the same and there is nothing new in terms of backup or restore features. Localized WordPress Backup/Restore Plugin with German Translations