Relevanspam
I've just had a little run of spam comments get through Akismet on my personal site. What differentiated these spam comments from all the others that do or don't make it through the filters, is that these ones were actually relevant to the content of the article they were posted to. Track ... read more.
New Caching System for Wordpress: Batcache
Peter isn't quite in the habit of sharing our internal CDM research and communiques to the rest of the world, so I'll re-post his words: Another caching solution for WP. This story also goes through some of the more generalized performance issues with WP and other solutions... http://andy.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/batcache-for-wordpress/ This is the system they ... read more.
Lightroom and Flickr Integration: Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr
We haven't revisited our love for Adobe's Lightroom for quite a while, but that doesn't mean that love has diminished. Any photos we've taken for CDMo have likely passed through Lightroom's gentle caress. Flickr, likewise, is indispensable. We use it for hosting larger images associated with CDM stories, and the ... read more.
For the Masses: WYSIWYG Comments for Wordpress
Peter and I have been talking about implementing WYSIWYG editing for Wordpress comments for a while now. WP's comments system is reasonably robust, but the HTML instructions seem to confuse some people: XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del ... read more.
bbPress Installation Step 2: Plugin Browser
bbPress is a very stripped down forum system, by default it contains very few of the "accepted" forum functions, such as private messaging, user timezones, even image posting. These functions are all available via a simple plugin system modeled on WordPress, and the ring that binds these plugins is Plugin ... read more.
phpBB to bbPress Migration Process - Step 1, Remove Spam Users
We've been planning to move to bbPress for quite a while. phpBB is plagued with spam, both through spam user signups and to a lesser extent spam postings. Last time I checked there was no serious anti-spam plugins or modifications available, and the couple of hacky attempts to fix the ... read more.
Marketing Gone Mad: Pandora and Energizer Spam our Forum
I don't think the CreateDigitalNoise forums are particularly popular, in the scheme of things. We've got a couple of hundred real users posting (and several thousand spam registrations - one of the reasons we're moving to bbPress soon) 7000ish articles. The only reason we haven't run away from phpBB ... read more.
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CreateDigitalMedia is where we tell you about the ideas we come up with and lessons we've learnt running the wildly successful (and sexy) CreateDigitalMusic and CreateDigitalMotion. We're building these sites around Wordpress, and beginning to incorporate some bbPress and WordpressMU in to the mix. read more.
New Post, Testing Internal Trackbacks
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