Library Catalogs Should Be Like WordPress Library catalogs should be be like WordPress. That is, every entry should support comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks. Every record should have a permalink. Content should be tag-able. The look should be easily customizable with themes. Everything should be available via RSS or Atom. It should be extendable with a rich plugin API. And when that fails, it would be nice if it were all written in a convenient language like PHP so we can hack it ourselves. Beside the part about “written in a convenient language like PHP”, this would make library catalogs much more useful and entertaining. However, it would also add complexity and spam issues. Amazon has recently started a similar approach to their listings including adding a customer wiki. Thanks to Eric Schnell who posted a detailed review of the original thought and some insight into WordPress OPAC or WOPAC. This […]
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Akismet has caught 271,167 (spam) for you since you installed it. That is 1.01% of all Spam (26,898,036 as of this post) that Akismet has caught! [EDIT] How many Spam has Akismet caught for you?
[Continue Reading...]Hurting Comment SpammersEvery Adsense Ad has a ‘Ads by Gooooogle’ link on it and if you click that link and look for the ‘Send Google your thoughts on the ads you just saw’ link on the page it takes you to you’ll be able to tell AdSense what you think about the ads Though this might not be the mighty deterrant we are looking for, if every blogger made it a point to report one spammer every day, we could take away some of their revenue. How many times in the recent past have you clicked on a link from a comment thinking it was benign and was faced with a link farm of some kind. I wish in all those cases I would have done what Darren suggests. Anyone know of a Greasemonkey script that can automate the process of reporting?
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Anarchy Media Player Play your MP3, flv and mov links directly through your blog with Javascript. Reminds me of the YouTube player. See examples on that page.
[Continue Reading...]Online Business is a 2 column , minimial wordpress theme with a business feel and it supports widgets . More info about it here
[Continue Reading...]WP Theme: Theorem Two column, green, large font(ed), clean, crisp and clear theme for WordPress. It is standards compliant, built from the ground up and has support for Widgets.
[Continue Reading...]Canvas for WordPress? Anyone use this yet? It took me quite a while and quite a bit of digging into the forums to understand that canvas was a “layout management tool” that is used on top of a WordPress install. The site is well built and it looks like everything is new but it also looks like a whole lot of new code and complexity. No code was available as of this post but the screenshots look chock full of AJAX drag and drop. It could either raise the bar for WordPress theme management or fall back in development as the core progresses creating a code mess.
[Continue Reading...]WP plugin: Troll Cap Mark a commenter as a troll using various identification techniques including IP Address. See 37signals original Troll Cap post and get the troll cap graphic.
[Continue Reading...]WP plugin: Installer Yup, a plugin that installs other plugins and themes. This is a really cool feature that might get further press yet. You can even install plugins and/or themes but just plugging in the URI of the plugin and everything else is taken care of. Of course, plugins that require changes to core code will not work. Also, correct permissions are crucial. Very cool nonetheless. While you are at it, check out other cool code from Matt.
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