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Wordpress is a php based content management system - the thing that puts words into a database, gets them back on request and squirts them into a nice digestable format. The page you are reading now was generated by wordpress.

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WordPress.com Blog Hosting Opens

November 21st, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.

WordPress.com Blog Hosting Opens

After a long period of growth by invitation only WordPress.com has today thrown open the doors for public consumption. WordPress.com (naturally) runs on the popular WordPress personal publishing system (that this website uses), so I can heartily recommend it. Get your free, hosted WordPress ‘blog today.

AutoMeta: Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress

November 17th, 2005, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.

AutoMeta: Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress

This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. More…

Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress

November 14th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Releases, Website, WordPress.

Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress

This is the first beta release of a WordPress plugin that can add Google Analytics to your website without you needing to code one single set of <>’s. More…

MostWanted 0.1.8

October 29th, 2005, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.

MostWanted 0.1.8

I’ve spoken with two new users of my MostWanted plugin during the last week, both of whom were keen on using the fixstats feature, which I’d written, but which I’d never actually linked-in to he code. So here’s a new version of MostWanted the at includes the capability to fix the stats which StatTraq doesn’t correctly handle (because of permalinks). More…

Akismet - Comment Spam Killer

October 25th, 2005, by Rich, in Spam, WordPress.

Akismet - Comment Spam Killer

This website - like any website that allows readers to submit comments - receives comment-spam, usually advertising medicines, gambling, or other vices.

I’ve been trialling a new anti-comment-spam plugin since mid September. It’s called Kismet, it’s from Automattic, (hence Akismet for short) and it’s working very well. More…

MostWanted 0.1.6

October 20th, 2005, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.

MostWanted 0.1.6

Two small updates to the MostWanted plugin, rolled into one release. More…

WordPress Haiku

October 18th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.

WordPress Haiku

Like a chosen few before me, I have become the posessor of a WordPress.com golden ticket; a rather rare invitation to join wordpress.com and start a free ‘blog, on what is one of the most sought-after domains on the net. It appears that I am at liberty to pass this ticket on to one lucky individual. More…

Ta Murky

October 13th, 2005, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.

Ta Murky

A special trans-global thanks to Murky who pinged me from NZ a few moments ago after noticing that this site was spitting out SQL errors (instead of gracefully presenting pages full of useful content). The outage was caused by a large file that was taking up the temporary space that our content management database needs to function properly. Everything is back to normal now. Ta Murky.

Spammed by MyNiceMailAt .com

September 17th, 2005, by Rich, in Security, Society, Spam, WordPress.

Spammed by MyNiceMailAt .com

Hopefully I just spoiled a spammer’s whole week. How? I bought the domain that he’s trying to promote (MyNiceMailAt.com) before he did. More…

WordPress Multiple Authors Plugin

August 17th, 2005, by Rich, in WordPress.

WordPress Multiple Authors Plugin

Yesterday I began to realize that WordPress (the software that manages the content you are reading now) might not be able to do something we need on this site: the capability to record and communicate that several people have authored an article. More…