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Last month, Darren Rowse asked me to contribute a post to Problogger about methods to increase page loads. He gets a lot of questions from his community and he wanted someone who had some experience in the area to help out. I obliged.

Please read it.

I’m at WordCamp San Francisco 2008 today and had the distinct pleasure of giving a talk on Search and Findability. Distinct pleasure because it was the first session of the day at 9am. And if any of you know me, then you know that I don’t do mornings well. :-)

My session was about Search and Findability. There seemed to be a lot of misunderstandings about what the session would be about. Findability is not SEO. SEO is an aspect of Findability. SEO makes a blog findable for search engines.

For nearly six months since the release of Akismet, I have little to no problem with spam. Every once in awhile, a spam comment or trackback will make it through to my moderation queue, but it’s really very rare. Until today. I’ve got 10 in the past hour. They’ve all gone [...]

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Back by popular demand is SeasonalCSS. I figured I needed to update it to at least work with modern WordPress installs. It is completely rewritten! If you are using an [...]

Yesterday I announced that today would be the first Open Mic Friday. Naturally, this couldn’t be possible without a plugin. Announcing “Open Mic Friday: The Plugin”.
Feel free to use this on your site. There’s some more polish and features to be made, but it works. It temporarily promotes all users to Contributor [...]

As part of my migration to Textpattern, I’ve had to go through and port a number of plugins. Some were significant ports, and for those I’ll try to release the plugins for other Textpattern users.
This is a port of “Recent Comments from Free Press”:http://freepressblog.org/plugins/recentComments.html.
It can be called from anywhere in a template according to [...]