This blog subscribes to the “bleeding edge” WordPress Alpha test release. I do this because 1) I make not money here so it this is not one of my critical blogs. 2) I test my plugins here so it is nice to know when something is screwy. 3) It is cool to be on the [...]

I have written a few plugins that I am testing, but I am not sure they are for the general public. Plugins are habit forming. I don’t like it when they get long and complicated, but I am having fun with some of the trivial ones. 1. ShortCode Grab Bag – Lists active shortcodes on [...]

I started making a new web site. This is the first new website I’ve made in a while. It is small – about 6 pages. I had forgotten how much work goes into creating a hand crafted site. All the stuff that WordPress made easy is just a little more complicated when I have to [...]

Whilst. I have never used this archaic form in anything that I have ever written or said, yet it shows up frequently in spam. There must be a translation program with a lexicon from 200 years ago. Anything with the word whilst now goes directly to the black hole.

I have a dozen wordpress blogs. Some of them get 10 times the traffic as this site, yet this site get’s 10 times the spam attempts. I regularly have to delete up to 50 trapped spam messages. My own anti spam plugin rejects about 50 attempts a day and the other spam plugins are stopping [...]

I have some odd blogs at My content experiments website. Google has given them a pagerank of zero despite some good links coming in. They are the autoblogs I created with the Rss2Post plugin. I guess the issue is that google figures out that they are extracts from the google alerts rss files. I need [...]

Download the next version of Rss2Post. I took out the stealth links and I made the cloaked linker a separate plugin. It works the same way so you can install the cloak links plugin when (if) it is approved for the wordpress repository. You can download cloak-links-plugin directly here.

Because of all the feedback, I have updated the Rss2Post plugin and added a bunch of features. New Features include: Link Cloaking to obscure generated links. Option of rel=”nofollow” on generated links. Option to add more feeds (up to 50). Option to create excerpts of the content. Option to change the frequency of updates (hourly, [...]