A new service from the creators of the fantastic Wordpress is the Akismet comment spam system. Luckily I don’t suffer from that much spam, but I am trying this to see if it is much more effective than other techniques (and less intrusive than moderating every comment).

PS I also upgraded to WP two point oh, [...]

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It seems like I change the theme on this site more often than I actually post content, but never mind.

This new theme is based on a picture I took last weekend of raindrops falling on the stones on the beach at Rosmarkie, near Inverness.

I know it looks a bit crap in IE, so I recommend [...]

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Partly as an excercise in trying to write a plugin for WordPress, and partly because I like the idea of having “posted 2 hours ago” on my blog but none of the existing plugins for WP did what I wanted, I have written this plugin.

The plugin consits of a single function, which returns the approximate [...]

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I have now updated my site to WordPress version 1.5.

As WP now uses ‘Themes’ I decided to create a new look for the site, instead of recreating the previous site. I guess I could have used the previous look as it was, but I fancied a change anyway.

I think in part of the upgrade, I [...]

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This has been updated again, see this post for details.

I have made some minor updates to the script that generates the Quicktags buttons in the WordPress post editor.

The default quicktags toolbar looks like this screenshot below, with 15 grey buttons:

I wanted a few extra functions, including: Heading 3 & 4; Quotation; small; big; superscript; and [...]

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