The very good news on the grapevine is that the first WordCamp UK has, already broken even (through sponsorship and ticket sales) with a full 10 days of ticket sales still to go. This is particularly good news since it pretty much guarantees the success of this years event, and future events. If [...]

WordCamp is coming to the UK.  WordCamp is a weekend event where the users and developers of WordPress (i.e. members of the general public) can get together for a series of formal presentations, less formal discussions and informal refreshments.
I’ve run this site on WordPress since 2003.  I’ve also written a couple of plugins for WordPress. [...]

Something’s broken on the database that runs this site, specifically there’s b0rkage in the comment table, and the ssh daemon is not reachable. Perhaps it’s to do with the larger than normal amount of spam that’s been arriving today (for “larger than normal” read: one metric truckload). More info later after I’ve had [...]

I’m in the process of rewriting the Worst Offenders plugin for the soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5. Before I make a tested and polished version of the code globally available, I’d be interested to hear from anyone who’d like to alpha test it.
As before Worst Offenders works cooperatively with other anti-spam plugins: its primary purpose [...]

It’s only 15 months since I mentioned the rocket-like acceleration of Akismet which went from a standing start to the point where it had fended off a million spam messages for its users in just 4 months. If things had continued at that pace it would have squashed a cool 5 million spams by [...]

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The plugin system on BBPress is still rather rudimentary (you create a folder called “my-plugins”) and any php that exists therein is considered to be an activated plugin. The good news here is, that (a) it works and (b) it’s so similar to the WordPress that many plugins will magically work without modification. [...]

In a market where BB software is two-a-penny (or cheaper, given the open-source nature of most good software) what’s BBPress got that made me use it?

Some folks may have noticed a lack of service for the last few days. This was due to a simultaneous disk failure on the old server*. Happily, a new shrink wrapped server has been installed and most of the content is now back, with a few updates over the forthcoming days.

The site’s going to be up and down like a yoyo over the next few days (until Sunday 23rd April) due to some major network restructuring in the server building.