I upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 today. It does’t really seem like there are a lot of new user-visible features, but they are really starting to make more regular releases, so we should see more gradual improvements.
One of the good features is better support for the One True Syndication Format Atom. Atom support was a bit [...]

WordPress 2.1
I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress today. Version 2.1.1 was released a couple of days ago. It’s a small bugfix release for the new WordPress 2.1 series. It has added some nice new features including the periodic autosaving of posts as you write them.
One of the nice new features is the [...]

I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam.
I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no false negatives yet (i.e. it has correctly identified every comment). The only downside is that for [...]

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam?
I’m currently getting on the order of 30-40 blog spam posts a day. While WordPress does a good job of catching them, and [...]

I finally got tired of dealing with reformatting that Wordpress does in its attempt to be “user friendly”. In general it does the right thing, but when you deal with code snipits inside <code> tags a lot it can quickly become a problem.

In just a few easy steps, the problems can be solved.

Well, I got bored again and decided to change the look of the site. I’m pretty excited about it because it’s pretty slick. Check out the ‘Pull’ tab on the top right for some extra goodies.
I’ve also updated to WordPress 2.0.4 with the latest and greatest bug-fixes and security updates.
What do you think of the [...]