Author: westi

SK2 – Simple Digest plugin – Version 1.20 Released

On By westiIn Development, WordPress

I am pleased to announce another important update to my Spam Karma 2 Simple Digest plugin – the latest version has some great new features developed on the back of the recent heavy spam runs that I am sure many of you have been suffering.

The major updates in this release are as follows:

  1. Ability to order the digest email by karma rather than date and time – this is to help make the possible ham comments that slip into the spam easier to spot as they would now be near the top of the email rather than interspersed (When you start getting 100K+ digests this really helps!)
  2. The last digest timestamp is now updated earlier to help ensure that those of you hit hard by concurrent spam runs don’t get multiple digest emails.
  3. The email now contains some special header information which makes it really simple to filter into a special folder in your INBOX if you want.

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WordPress v2.0.3

On By westiIn Asides, Security, WordPress1 Comment

The latest bug fix increment to the current stable WordPress version is now out. WordPress 2.0.3 addresses the recent low risk security vulnerability and adds a number of other small security and bug fixes. The biggest change in this version is the introduction of nonces to protect the admin pages instead of relying on referrers which are increasing being disabled by personal firewall software. Those of you using my WordPress Version Check plugin should now see an upgrade message in your WordPress admin pages.

websitesasgraphs

On By westiIn General1 Comment

This is a meme that is really interesting. Generating a graph of your website based on the tags used in the content. It is quite interesting to see the differences between a simple page containing very little markup like the front page for my domain as shown below compared to the amount of markup found in this blog.

www.ftwr.co.uk website graphblog.ftwr.co.uk website graph

Go to http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm to read more about the graphs or visit the graph generator here. Then post your graph on your blog or on flickr taged as websitesasgraphs

Stealing content for profit.

On By westiIn Rants, WordPress4 Comments

Reviewing my referrer logs again after the recent hotlinking issues I noticed another new referrer cropping up planetwordpress.com. Taking a look at the site in question it seems to be a WordPress install aggregating the content from a lot of WordPress blogs including most of those pulled into the official and unofficial WordPress planets (planet.wordpress.org and planetwordpress.planetozh.com respectively).

The new planetwordpress.com site seems to have the sole purpose of generating money from adsense clicks based on other content which I’m sure goes against the licence I have my content under (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) and as such I have contacted Google to complain about the sites participation in the adsense program. Searching Google for mentions of planetwordpress.com it seems like I am not the only person to notice there content being stolen.