I find referer spam annoying. Referer spam is spam that appears in my log as bogus http_referer entries – referer is misspelled for historic reasons. I also think that spammers who drop by also leave their dirt behind in the logs. By blocking certain strings in the referrer string, I think I can stop a [...]

As near as I can figure it, someone downloaded one of my plugins this week making my total downloads from the WordPress.org Repository numbering over 100,000. This makes me about 285th most popular WordPress author. I have no idea how many authors there are, but I would guess more 10,000. I would have to become [...]

I have received more downloads in the last 24 hours of any plugin that I’ve ever released. This is due to the fact that 3.2.1 release of WP was released at the same time as I released my code. Everyone is upgrading WP and then going back and upgrading their plugins. The main change to [...]