WordPress 2.5 to be trimmed

Hmmm…read this article over at BloggingPro that talks about WP 2.5 being slimmed down to allow for a faster-blogging engine. It seems some of the stuff I use will be removed, as well as other crap that I don’t care about (like the user manager). All of these features will be able to [...]

WordPress plugin video tutorial

This video makes me want to learn PHP more.  Excellent tutorial by Mark on making your first WordPress plugin in under 5 mins.  Link.

Akismet

This has got to be the end-all approach to comment spam for WordPress. I installed this little, simple plug-in about a week ago and it has caught more spam than any other plug-ins I used to run. On top of that, it uses hardly any resources at all. Awesome.

Akismet

For those of us lucky enough to have a WordPress.com account, I HIGHLY recommend that you get Akismet. It will nearly eliminate all trackback and comment spam on your site.
To use, first login to your WP.com (uberwerks.wordpress.com) account, click on “profile” in your admin interface and make a note of your API key. [...]

WordPress conditional tags

I’m no programmer or hard-core web designer but WordPress motivates me to become one. First, I created my own theme. Next, I wanted to tweak the sidebar so that when a single post, archive listing, or category listing was displayed, it would show a plug-in that I have activated called “sameCat” (via category [...]

Technorati Tags

I have just installed a plug-in called “SimpleTags“. This small plug-in allows me to take any particular text in my post and create an automatic Technorati tag (see bottom of post).
A small issue that I’m awaiting from the author about is in regards to the tag being predispositioned at the bottom of the post. [...]