January 24th, 2010 9:30 am by John Dalesandro
There is a plugin called Bad Behavior for WordPress that helps reduce referrer spam. As long as your log files are properly secured and not publicly available, then referrer spam isn’t much of a problem. However, if you’re like me and you don’t prefer links to nasty sites showing up in your StatPress dashboard, then Bad Behavior might be a plugin worth adding to your site. This site uses a combination of both Bad Behavior and WP-SpamFree which seems to catch almost all of the spam hits and comments. I don’t receive a lot of traffic so I can’t tell how this combination would work on a high volume site. As a minor warning, these plugins do seem to slow down response time just a bit.
June 14th, 2009 7:45 am by John Dalesandro
After many attempts, I finally have the NextGEN Gallery plugin working together with the Auto Thickbox plugin. I use NextGEN Gallery for the Photo Gallery pages on this site because I like the way it manages photo albums and galleries. However, I also like to include images in posts outside of NextGEN Gallery’s control. I wanted all of the clickable images on the site to be displayed using a Thickbox, e.g. the fancy popup frame that shows a larger image and the photo title. NextGEN Gallery can handle the images in its albums, but any images in regular posts would just display the raw image file, i.e. no Thickbox frame or site wrapper. When I added the Auto Thickbox plugin to the site, NextGEN Gallery and Auto Thickbox were in conflict since they were both attempting to add a Thickbox to the album images. To get both plugins to work together, I did the following:
Within NextGen Gallery Administration:
Under Gallery -> Options -> Effects:
Set JavaScript Thumbnail effect: Custom
Link Code line: class=”thickbox” rel=”%GALLERY_NAME% nobox”
The “nobox” option instructs NextGEN Gallery not to add the Thickbox code. This then allows Auto Thickbox to add Thickbox code for all clickable images (including images in NextGEN Gallery managed albums). No more conflict!
February 14th, 2009 7:57 am by John Dalesandro
Just testing a mobile post from the iPhone using the “WordPress for iPhone” application. The application allows for some easy mobile publishing with many of the normal WordPress functions including adding an image from the iPhone camera roll.
iPhone Displaying The WordPress Application
