December 13th, 2007
Recently I needed to put some style definitions and a JavaScript function in a post on another blog that I have. I wasted several hours trying to do this, because WordPress insisted on putting backslashes in front of my apostrophes, inserting superfluous <p> or <br /> tags in place of newlines, and generally breaking my HTML in various horrible ways.
In the end I decided to just go and write a plugin that would let me put any code or script in my posts and display it to the visitor unmodified.
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Posted by White Shadow
November 2nd, 2007
About two weeks ago I was browsing SEO-related sites and came upon a promising technique for getting one’s pages out of the supplemental index. It’s called “third level push” and looks particularily useful for blogs. This is an advanced technique and you should work on the basic stuff first before trying something like this.
Instead of a detailed tutorial I will offer some thoughts about the “third level push” method and some tips on implementing it (yes, this is going to be a long post).
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Posted by White Shadow
October 15th, 2007
Everybody gets email spam. Bloggers also get comment spam and trackback spam (lucky us). This blog receives a few dozen spam comments a day (most are caught by Akismet).
What most people don’t realize is comment spam can actually be useful. Here’s how (note: includes some unethical stuff) -
Fresh proxies. Typically spammers use a proxy when [...]
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Posted by White Shadow
October 13th, 2007
The Broken Link Checker Wordpress plugin has been updated to version 0.2! Here’s what’s new -
Link checking algorithm has been improved and shouldn’t generate false warnings anymore.
Links that are discovered to not work will be re-checked again a few minutes later. This is useful if the link only appeared to be broken due to a [...]
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Posted by White Shadow