How to post dynamic content ( using php ) on WordPress Blogs + Know your IP Address

March 17th, 2005 Feel free to use this blacklist for your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area.

May 15th, 2005 I am sharing by Referrer Bouncer Plugin BlackList. This can be used with the Referrer Bouncer plugin by creating a custom referer.txt (if not done already) and adding/merging this list contents.

February 4th, 2005 A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs. Delete your first post (id 0).

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.

September 7th, 2007 WordPress provides you the capability to write an excerpt for your post. A post excerpt is displayed as a summary of the post in front page and archive pages.

December 26th, 2005 WordPress default theme (Kubrick based) does not display sidebar on single post page. However with a minor change in the theme you can make it to display sidebar.

September 3rd, 2006 Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it.

March 22nd, 2005 A simple technique (one step) to enable displaying of sidebar in individual post pages. By default in the default layout the sidebar is not visible in individual post pages.

April 18th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0, 1.5.x

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.

April 27th, 2005 I tried wp-staticize for caching my blog. It produced certain pages with really strange characters.

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.

June 28th, 2008 For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end.

November 17th, 2006 AdRotator Overview WordPress plugin AdRotator enables you to display an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location anywhere in your WordPress blog (other free WordPress plugins we provide). Adding ad code is trvial.

August 24th, 2005 After briefly scanning the eleven defects fixed in 1.5.2 (an interim release before WordPress 1.6) I identified the changed files. They are: xmlrpc.php comment-functions.php wp-admin/post.php pluggable-functions.php registration-functions.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-commentsrss2.php wp-includes/template-functions-category.php edit-page-form.php I am shortly planning to provide a patch update from 1.5.1.3 to 1.5.2.