Are Most Link Extractors (Including WordPress Comment Link Extractor) Wrong?

January 30th, 2008 Type the following as a WordPress comment and see the fun: <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">This is www.yahoo.com link</a> This should ideally cause the whole phrase (This is www.yahoo.com link) to be hyperlinked and pointing to google.com. Unfortunately WordPress sees it as two links and a plain word: "This is" is hyperlinked to www.google.com "www.yahoo.com" is hyperlinked to www.yahoo.com "link" is not hyperlinked at all Did you read about the other hyperlinking defect?

January 18th, 2007 WordPress is a popular blogging software which is used in this blog and lot of blogs on the internet. One of the frequently asked questions was how can we get older versions of WordPress.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

June 1st, 2006 WordPress 2.03 has been released. Here are the list of files changed in WordPress 2.03 in comparison with WordPress 2.02 for those planning on selective upgrade: wp-admin/admin-db.php wp-admin/admin-functions.php wp-admin/admin.php wp-admin/cat-js.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-admin/edit-comments.php wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php wp-admin/edit-form-ajax-cat.php wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php wp-admin/edit-link-form.php wp-admin/edit-page-form.php wp-admin/edit-pages.php wp-admin/edit.php wp-admin/import/mt.php wp-admin/inline-uploading.php wp-admin/link-categories.php wp-admin/link-import.php wp-admin/link-manager.php wp-admin/list-manipulation-js.php wp-admin/list-manipulation.php wp-admin/moderation.php wp-admin/options-discussion.php wp-admin/options-general.php wp-admin/options-misc.php wp-admin/options-permalink.php wp-admin/options-reading.php wp-admin/options-writing.php wp-admin/options.php wp-admin/page-new.php wp-admin/plugin-editor.php wp-admin/plugins.php wp-admin/post.php wp-admin/profile-update.php wp-admin/profile.php wp-admin/templates.php wp-admin/theme-editor.php wp-admin/themes.php wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php wp-admin/upgrade.php wp-admin/user-edit.php wp-admin/users.php wp-comments-post.php wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php wp-content/plugins/wp-db-backup.php wp-includes/cache.php wp-includes/capabilities.php wp-includes/classes.php wp-includes/comment-functions.php wp-includes/default-filters.php wp-includes/functions-compat.php wp-includes/functions-formatting.php wp-includes/functions-post.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-includes/kses.php wp-includes/links.php wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php wp-includes/registration-functions.php wp-includes/template-functions-general.php wp-includes/template-functions-links.php wp-includes/vars.php wp-includes/version.php wp-login.php Note: The files are hyperlinked to WordPress trunk source codebase.

April 27th, 2009 Plugins have taken the functionality of WordPress to new heights. There are loads of word press plugins available and still more coming up.

July 16th, 2007 Some of you have come to me saying WordPress recommends BlueHost and so why it isn't working well for them, their implicit expectation being that because WordPress recommends BlueHost, it must be the best for WordPress. That is far from truth.

January 30th, 2008 Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites.

November 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.

August 13th, 2005 To my delight I realized WordPress 1.5 provides an extremely simple way for Podcasting (sample). Podcasting is seamlessly supported in Wordpress 1.5 and beyond.

August 27th, 2009 Recently we had a stint with the top 10 Wordpress Plugins for Social Networking from your Blog. Twitter is fast growing into one of the most popular social networks.

July 5th, 2005 All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them.

June 29th, 2008 Newer versions of WordPress (2.3.1 and above) adds two extra lines to your blog header. They are: You need them to use Windows Live Writer to write to your WordPress blog.

January 24th, 2005 A discussion on rel="nofollow" technique versus CAPTCHA

May 14th, 2007 WordPress 2.2 is about to be released. Currently the release candidate 2 has the following features: PHP 5.2.2 fixes: WP importer now works in PHP 5.2.2 Workaround for PHP 5.2.2 bug that breaks XMLRPC Fixed fatal error in cache.php by flushing output buffers during shutdown.

March 2nd, 2005 I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. With it I am progressively redesigning this blog to simplify accessing of *content*.