WP Plugin: lr2Spam: Prevents blind posting by adding a dynamic hidden field to the form and validating that field when posted. Logs all spam to apache’s error_log.

… that you did something you thought was a good idea at the time, would serve the best purposes of everyone, and had it blow up horribly in your face? I will not make this a commentary on the “WordPress SEO” debacle but I can and will add a vote of confidence. Matt Mullenweg is a good person, cares intensely about WordPress and its community and would not (and could not!) do anything to harm or undermine the community and software that he loves so much and has worked so hard to build and establish. He is unavailable to defend himself at this time and that makes it easier for people to level accusations without knowing all the facts or letting Matt make amends. I for one, firmly believe in Matt’s objective and in WordPress. I will not try to anticipate how Matt is going to handle it, nor am […]

WP Theme: Aesthetic Azure: Three column boxy blue and white theme for WordPress 1.5

WP Plugin Dependency: CMC 1.5: Interesting idea. This developer has built dependancy into their plugin to be forwards compatible with any other “click counter” type plugins that might be developed. I wonder if we could write in some hooks or triggers that would serially list defined functions and classes. Then a plugin developer would just check this list for the function that they want to define, and if not found, redefine/redeclare it. Same could go for variable names, though that could become overwhelming and resource hogging. [EDIT] On second thought, an easier method would be to check every function/class for pre-definition before declaring/defining it as a rule (which is what I do outside of PHP)

If you would like one, please leave me a comment. Thanks to MindSack [EDIT] The first wave is sent out. Now you have to post a praise for WordPress to get an invite! 😉 [EDIT] All gone. Thanks for playing! (try emailing one of the people in the comments for an invite)

AOL unveils blogging service for teens Hmmm.. Red Blogs is optimized for … 800×600 (???) is only available for AOL users (your AOL IM username will not do) and looks and feels much like a contrived LJ. Also, the blogs look terrible in FireFox. You wanna jump on my blogging bandwagon?

WP Plugin: The Enhanced View Plugin: Get a much better “Manage”->”Posts” admin page in WordPress 1.5 with this plugin. It lets you search, sort, flip pages, categorize and perform all sorts of manipulations with your WordPress posts.

WP Plugin: Subscribe to Comments 2.0-alpha-2 : ScriptyGoddess’ venerable Subscribe to Comments plugin has been upgraded to version 2.0(a2) for WordPress 1.5 by Mark Jaquith and he is offering it for download as a first taste. Excellent!