Alternatives to Internet Explorer – CNET reviews Via Eric

C A R T H I K . N E T >> WordPress Easter Egg Good find! This enables the editing of all the WordPress options on one page.

Glen Road Girls – Blog Sets: More templates for your WordPress blogs. There are some really artsy cool templates here. WordPress templates are becoming quite the rage.

Burningbird >> WordPress Modifications: A nicely detailed writeup on how Shelley customized a vanilla WordPress install into weblog.Burningbird.net Her documentation might be very useful for other people trying out similar customizations.

FeedDemon Tips: A new blog from Nick with tips about FeedDemon. While you are at it, check out the update for FeedDemon which prevents malicious IE vulnerabilities from affecting FeedDemon users. PS: If you dont already, check out TopStyle Pro written by Nick. In my opinion, it is one of the best, if not THE best CSS editing software available.

WordPress Media Player plugin: This plugin (for 1.2) allows the upload and management of MP3s and audio clips with the ability to create links for your blog entries.

Addendum from my previous post about comment flooding, this is what I would change the code in my wp-comments-post.php (between the comments, you should recognize the place): // Simple flood-protection $lasttime = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT comment_date FROM $tablecomments ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 1”); if (!empty($lasttime)) { $time_lastcomment= mysql2date(‘U’, $lasttime); $time_newcomment= mysql2date(‘U’, $now); if (($time_newcomment – $time_lastcomment) < 300) die( __(‘Sorry, this blog only allows a new comment once every 300 seconds. If you really want to write a comment, just wait a few and hit refresh on this page. Chances are you tried to add a comment about halfway between 0 and 300 seconds. Comment flooders are annoying. Thank you for being patient.’) ); } My own MySql server is messed up (because my mysql server is screwy AND in a different time zone than my web server, figure that) but it should work. If something breaks, I will try it […]

I was having a terrible time with comment flooders recently and even though the comments are put in the moderation queue, it is still quite a chore to delete or remove a hundred comments that are fifty lines long. Not fun by any means. To create a simple solution to the problem, I have increased the timeout between the time a comment is posted and a comment can be posted again. By default, this time in WordPress is set to 10 seconds. I have increased that time considerably and added a really nice comment to the error code so people understand the reasons for not being able to post something. A commenter that is genuine is more likely to try to post somewhere in between the beginning of the timeout and the end. On the average she/he will only have to wait half the time set in the timeout. I […]