Archive for February, 2008

Andy Beard may just have the answer to Paid advertising and Page Rank

I think Andy Beard may just be a genius. At the very least he’s got a very analytical mind and he’s put it to use in the ongoing situation of Google Page Rank Slapping. Andy came up with a method to block Paid Reviews from Google’s Spiders using Robots.txt, and now he’s filed [...]

Gearing up for another go at WordPress MU

I’m working out the details of a project I’ve had planned for a very long time. This project will be using WordPress MU as the back end system, and I’m looking over requirements as I write this.
Out of the box, WordPress MU is a splogger’s paradise. The system does not allow the administrator to [...]

E-Commerce on the simpler side

Most people who have ever spent more than a little time on the Internet have thought of operating an online store at some point or another.  The main hurdle for most would be store owners is the incredible number of options in this area.  There are open source shopping systems, simple shopping cart additions to [...]

Let’s look at that editor again…

We’ve seen that <embed> works, now let’s check a few other tags, and I’ll tell you why I think this is a great thing…
Let’s try inserting a <div> with a text-align center attribute and a background color:
Should be centered
So far so good!  In older versions of TinyMCE, if you added a <div> tag, it was [...]

Wow those WP coders are fast!

It was just 2 days ago that I reported on the latest version of WordPress in-testing, and that there were issues with more than a few things.  In those two days most of those issues have been addressed.  While there are still more issues for the team to worry about, they’re getting worked out at [...]

My first thoughts on WordPress 2.5

You can’t tell from looking at it, but this blog is running the latest and greatest version of WordPress.  As a matter of fact, SpunPuppy has run a testing version of WordPress since it went live.  It was only today I remembered that I hadn’t updated the test code for a while, so I ran [...]