Akismet stats now available online

• May 23, 2006
• James Skemp

Akismet, one great WordPress plugin if you'll be accepting public comments, now has made available global stats on http://akismet.com/stats/. What's scary is the amount of spam per 'ham' (non-spam).

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The 'easy' way to add the description meta tag to WordPress posts

• April 29, 2006
• James Skemp

According to some people, the keywords meta tag has more relevancy/use than the description meta tag. Unfortunately, this is dead wrong. As I've been able to prove (for myself, at least) this last month, the meta description is quite alive and well. Why people think it's not only dead, but surpassed by the meta keywords (!!!), I'll never understand. (And, by the way, these were August '05, January '06 articles/posts.

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WP-ShortStat SQL queries

• April 4, 2006
• James Skemp

The wp-shortstat plugin, modified for WordPress 2.x use by Markus Kaemmerer, is a great little plugin. I've been using it since March 17, and since Markus has been doing a deal of updating (additional functionality, as well as bug fixes), I've been checking it on a regular basis (and have looked through the code more than once). However, since I started out by using 1.3, I've got a problem with old records skewing my stats.

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Upgrading (our local install of) WordPress

• March 11, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we walked through installing WordPress on a local machine. This time, we'll be upgrading WordPress. For this guide, we'll be upgrading from WordPress 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. Note that this guide will work equally well for upgrading to 2.0.3, 2.0.4 or 2.0.5.

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Setting up WordPress on a local Web server

• February 28, 2006
• James Skemp

In our previous tutorials, we setup an Apache-based Web server, on a Windows XP home computer. The Web server is also running PHP and MySQL, as well as ColdFusion MX. This time, we'll be installing WordPress onto our local Web server. This installation will require us to work with both PHP and MySQL, and we'll be able to setup any number of WordPresses after we have completed this one.

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WordPress 2.0? Not yet

• December 31, 2005
• James Skemp

So, WordPress 2.0 is out.

Like many other people, however, I won't be upgrading. Check asymptomatic.net for a number of pros and cons on the issue ...

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Receive email updates when new posts are added

• October 25, 2005
• James Skemp

Sitting in on a seminar, I was introduced to one of more popular email confirmation tools for blogs, called Bloglet.

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Personalize WordPress and save yourself a headache

• October 20, 2005
• James Skemp

Did you know:

If you do a search on Google for "Powered by [WP]" (where [WP] is WordPress), you'll end up with over 25.3 million returned results?

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