I was hesitant to release this widget because it is so hard to describe. It does something simple. It shows a list of posts that match the keywords used in a search engine query. You never know what surfers are going to search for, so this extracts the keywords of every search and makes a [...]

If you do a search on Facebook “like” plugins on the WordPress repository, you’ll notice that every one of them has had at least on user give them a low rating. There are no high rated Facebook “like” plugins that have 100% high rating. I am led to believe that one of the authors has [...]

Posts and pages live in the database, but I have had a need in the past to create a page on the fly without it living in the db. I’ve been thinking about how to fake wordpress into showing a post that is totally bogus without having a post in the db. It turned out [...]

I figure that the primary goal of comment spam is to insert a URL into a comment. I’ve edited my theme and deleted the url field in the comments and popup comments files, but I still get spam comments with data in the URL field. My guess is that they are hitting the wp-comments.php file [...]

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