Stuff of Interest

The beginnings of a plug-in repository. Will have to keep an eye on to see how it develops.

WordPress Plugin Repository – Trac

The ‘official’ documentation for WordPress

WordPress Codex

Two bugs in WordPress’ handling of RSS feeds that caused it to send the feed even if it shouldn’t.

Wordpress RSS bandwidth fixes

Someone fed up with the sluggishness of WordPress and the messy code. If you’re also unhappy, worth a check.

It will obviously take some time to go through the code and test it to ensure it works well enough for you. I’m not willing to invest that amount of time right now, but still want to be aware of it later.

WordPress Fast Frontend

Another easy method of stopping, or at least really slowing down spammers.

The 5 min Wordpress anti comment spam hack.

A simple item to implement, and only adds a minor task for commenters. Should eliminate all spam, as the spammers would have to create a script to search for this, and guess if they’ve hit it right.

Jeff Barr’s Blog – WordPress Comment Verification (With Source Code)

By default, WordPress does not notify a user if their comment has gone into moderation. This hack will pop-up a window to let the user know their comment has been sent to moderation.

Hopefully this will eliminate cases where the user posts their comment multiple times because they think it got lost.

Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net | WordPress Hack: Notify Users of Moderation

A one-click backup add-on for WordPress. With a few minor changes to one of your php files, you can do backups and restores of your database either to a file on your web server, or download it to save it locally.

Weblog Tools Collection – WordPress 1.2 One Click Backup

A very useful addin if you’re using WordPress for your blog. Add it to your plugins, turn it on, and it does the work. A few options can be set in the script to control whether you get notification emails, and to define some explicit regex values.

The other filters are read from the WordPress options page under Discussion (for 1.2.1).

Kitten’s Project Blog – Kitten%u2019s Spaminator

According to comments I’ve read, this functionality has been incorporated into WordPress 1.3, so you won’t explicitly need this plugin when you upgrade.