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WordPress Chokes On “Web 2.0″

Ironically, WordPress’ Texturize filter chokes when the phrase “web 2.0″ is quoted. Texturize automatically makes semantically-correct curly quotes and other punctuational fixes to regularly typed text. Normally that’s great for people like me who care about stuff like that. But when a quoted phrase ends in a number, it turns the closing quote into a [ READ MORE ]

Comment Subscriptions Enabled

Hey, gang. You can now subscribe to the comments on posts here at miahz.com—which is to say, you’ll get an email notification when someone comments on a post you’re subscribed to. That way you can keep track of the on-going conversations and know when someone replies to one of your comments. Just check the little [ READ MORE ]

Akismet 1000 Spam Barrier

Sometime a few days ago Akismet intercepted the 1000th piece of blog spam before it could touch my site. I installed it about four months ago. There’s currently 169 comments in the 15 day cue. Seems to be high tide—it fluctuates down to around 60 or so. Still no false positives. I’ve had to moderate [ READ MORE ]

Link Posting Strategies

I have been trying to figure out the best (and easiest) way to feature the crap i stumble on and think people need to check out. I actually keep a dated linklog of sorts in my AIM profile to entertain all the away message stalkers. That works okay, but it’s not public and i can’t [ READ MORE ]

The Spoils Of WordPress 2.0.1 & Akismet

WordPress 2.0.1 is alive and kicking on miahz.com. The upgrade from 1.5.3 went hitchless[ly?]. Initial impressions: i like the cleaner admin interface, the abbridged reverse-order drafts list, the Akismet plugin included by default, along with all the other i’ve-been-spoiled-by-wordpress.com features like in situ file uploading and on-the-fly new categories. I’m especially relieved by the prospect [ READ MORE ]

The Years