On this day in 2003, Matt Mullenweg announced that first release of WordPress was available for download. Version 0.7 features included: Texturize — So good it’ll make your quotes curl. WordPress Links — A link manager with everything you’d expect, from Weblogs.com support to a handy bookmarklet. Manage as many blogrolls as you like, and […]
Hate seeing trackback spam intermingled with your blog's comments? It used to drive us nuts, too. After some searching, we stumbled upon this great WordPress add-on: Simple Trackback Validation Plugin. According to the plugin author, it performs simple but very effective tests on all incoming trackbacks to stop trackback spam. When a trackback is received, […]
GrokDotCom reports that Google Optimizer has shed its beta status: Google Website Optimizer can now be accessed by anyone with a basic Google account. Even if you only have so much as a Gmail account, you can start testing your website — for free — regardless of whether you’re running a paid search campaign. (No […]
ContentRobot put our plugins - iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme and Google Website Optimizer Plugin - through their paces and we've deemed them to be WordPress 2.5 compatible! As always, the iWPhone plugin does not play nicely with WP-Super Cache (or any caching plugins), but there is no change to the installation and usage. Even […]
PSST! Did you know that up until recently that ContentRobot's company website had been running atop of *gasp* Drupal? Yes "the WordPress experts" finally converted to this superior platform when we launched our "naked theme" site last month. While we were hoping to be farther along and show off parts of our new look, we […]
Over the weekend, WordPress launched version 2.5. We have been playing with a beta copy and have been very impressed. If you check out WordPress.org, you'll even see new site design that aligns with what the software looks like. According to WordPress (and a bit of commentary by ContentRobot), here are the goodies you can […]
The biggest complaint we have about blogging is comment spam. Have you ever seen what "people" attempt to get posted on to your blog? Going through our spam folder today, we see links and listings that include the following "topics": Porn - from lesbian to teen to sex tapes of your "favorite" female celebrities Sex […]
In our last post we griped about the things that we don't like about WordPress. But we recommend it to all our clients, and here's why: It's easy to install (both the software and a variety of plugins take mere minutes) Customization is limitless (from design to plugins and widgets and programming) you can do […]