Posts Tagged wordpress

Wordpress: A More Organic Category Tree

I think 97% of the time our brains are in second or third gear… then, every once in a while, we actually shift, accelerate, and start thinking outside the box.
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Wordpress: Geek Switch

on: geek content will be displayed on the blog
off: significantly reduces the amount of geek content
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Wordpress: Comment Validation Hack

Edit: Since setting up my blog again after a long hiatus, I no longer use this system, though I never encountered any problems with it.

I use a simple comment validation hack on my site as a first defense against spam. The system uses what's known as a Turing number, named after the mathematician Alan Turing. If you have ever signed up for an e-mail account at yahoo or gone to e-gold's website, you know what I'm talking about. Here's how I did it.
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MySQL: backups

Note: Some of this was cut and pasted from this article by Ian Gilfillan, and is printed here merely for my convenience. If you are Ian and have a problem with this, let me know. Thanks.
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