I’m sure some of you have noticed that there has been an interesting blog domain name change in the past week or so. Yes, it was Dell’s decision to change its corporate blog’s name from one2one to Direct2Dell - with a corresponding shift in domain name.
Oh, The Pain!
WTF? Any individual blogger would have thought twice […]

As part of the WordPress Plugins Feature series, here are the plugins released in the past 30-odd days that have caught my eye.
In some order of interest to me (not necessarily accurate), they are:

Bls Feeds with CommentsThis plugin basically embeds a comment form into your feeds. This way, your readers can comment on your posts […]

No, the word “feature” in the title doesn’t mean “characteristic”, but rather a “…non-hard-news story (a profile, preview, quiz, etc.) often given special design treatment…” or “…a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine.” While trivial, I’d rather not get anyone confused just because I couldn’t come up with a proper title.
Anyway, back […]

It’s been more than a week since Blogging Pro’s WordPress Theme and Plugin challenge ended, but some of David (from Blogging Pro)’s comments about the whole Wordpress community slowdown still nags at me.
He did raise a valid point when he argued that the amount of “really revolutionary” plugins coming out of the community has […]

A post published over at Quick Online Tips yesterday reminded me of a problem I used to face over at one of my blogs: Long words and URLs breaking my layout. What happens is that when a very long word is written in a post or comment (longer than its container), it pushes down any […]

Ever since I upgraded most of my blogs to WordPress 2, I’ve been facing a really annoying bug on some of my installs. In fact, it’s actually only one of two bugs, but at least this one has a solution.
Anyway, here’s what’s happening: I edit a post, but after I save it, the Write […]

We looked at the various anti-spam measures afforded to WordPress users yesterday, so it seems right that we should look at how Movable Type (MT) users can tackle the comment spam problem today.
But before we go on, I’ll stick my neck out and state something I’ve always wanted to say: MT’s anti-spam solutions aren’t, […]

Handling spam is probably one of the most basic tasks any blogger will have to handle, but in recent days, it is also one of the most important to get right (unless, of course, you want to drown in porn, drugs, and depression).
Luckily, for WordPress bloggers, there are only a few quick steps that have […]