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Easy Gravatars with Google Analytics Plugin

11/9/2007 – 9:56 am

Several people have reported problems using my Easy Gravatars plugin together with Joost de Valk’s Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged analytics, avatar, avatars, bugfix, easy-gravatars, Google, gravatar, gravatars, icons, patch, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | Comments (6)

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

8/29/2007 – 11:17 am

As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

The new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Java, JavaScript, plugin, Plugins, Releases, Tags, taxonomy, WordPress | Comments (4)

Googlebomb: Popup Blockers

7/15/2005 – 1:06 pm

Has your blog been spammed with ads for a Popup Blocker for Internet Explorer?

If you are getting here through a search on Popup Blockers or for Pop-Up Blocker or Pop Up Blocker Internet Explorer, please do not buy from pop-upblocker dot org They are spammers and unethical. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, SEO, Search, Spam | Also tagged commentspam, Google, Spam | Comments (14)

WordPress Scandal: Photomatt Responds

4/1/2005 – 1:04 pm

Matt finally had a chance to make a response to the recent WordPress SEO scandal. Here’s a small snippet:

The articles hosted content thing was just a short-term experiment, an interesting idea (original and relevant Wikipedia-type content on the site) that was badly implemented. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, SEO, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged CSS, Google, PageRank, plugin, Spam, WordPress | Comments (5)

The WordPress/HotNacho SEO Debacle

3/31/2005 – 1:01 pm

Debate is raging over the “WordPress SEO Spam” issue. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, SEO, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Google, PageRank, Spam, WordPress | Comments (33)

Plugin: SpamForceField

3/29/2005 – 2:33 pm

SpamForceField is my newest anti-spam plugin for WordPress. This one does a couple of interesting things:

All connections via pinappleproxy are denied.
Every connection’s Referer is checked against your blacklist keys. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Security, Servers, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Google, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, Spam, Web, WordPress | Comments (39)

Google Maps Dissected

2/9/2005 – 4:06 pm

Joel Webber has an excellent dissection of how Google Maps works under the hood in his Mapping Google article. Welcome to my blogroll.

Highlights:

Communication with the backend server is done with a hidden <iframe> and some javascript trickery (not with XMLHttpRequest, as Gmail uses).
Data arrives from the server in XML and is transformed into HTML by client-side XSLT. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Search, Software, Tech | Also tagged Geography, Google, Java, JavaScript, Location, Web, XML, XSLT | Comments (2)

Progress

2/6/2003 – 8:18 pm

I’ve finally reached a milestone on a Perl project for my friend Paul over at Big Huge Games. Maybe one day I’ll have time to play their game, Rise of Nations. [...]