This painfully simple plugin provides a shortcode for inserting simple contact forms, with JustHumans powered spam protection. JustHumans is one of the most reliable ways of stopping contact form spam in my experience, I highly recommend it and use it frequently.
Download JustHumans Contact Form Plugin
Update: Anders Brownworth has blogged it.
Simple plugin for inserting ‘Add to Cart’ buttons with shortcodes. Includes visual editor button for easy inserting of shortcodes.
Download, change email address configuration variable, upload, and activate plugin. Look for the new button in the visual editor to easily insert shortcodes wherever you like.
Update: Cloud Sites WP Scanner is now available via the plugins repository:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jw-cloud-sites-wp-scanner/
Use at your own risk. Upload, activate, and visit new menu item. Can remove all world and group permissions. Search options table for backdoors, and posts table for spam links. Also looks for *.bak.php, *.old.php, and *.cache.php files.
WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/
Recently, a client wanted just 1 jumbo mailbox for their domain, larger than what I can provide on my hosting platform. Google Apps Enterprise seemed like the perfect fit. 25 Gigs for a reasonable price on the familiar and popular Gmail platform. Perfect right… yes, until you have a question or need support.
Google’s monolith provides no phone number for support, just online forms where you fire your query off and hope for a timely response or resolution.
It has taken Google Enterprise support – 3 weeks to address my issue. That’s right 3 weeks to troubleshoot an email delivery issue. This is the poorest of poor support/service. For a paid service this is unacceptable.
Bottom line, don’t host anything other than personal email with Google Apps. They are not up to the task when it comes to supporting users who depend on reliable email. There are a ton of reputable hosting companies that do excellent email hosting and -gasp- actually have a phone number you can call for support when things go wrong.
Oh and the best part is the issue still isn’t solved and I must continue waiting for replies to emails.
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I am falling head over heels for Cufon.
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:
1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text
http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon
The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about making sure that we encourage people to move to modern browsers such as IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ’force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. While Microsoft is encouraging companies and developers to move on from IE6, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.
Visit: http://www.bringdownie6.com/
I stumbled accross this great post by Colin McNulty – Solution to WordPress Blank Screen of Death after activating my theme started causing all sorts of weirdness.
1 single solitary New Line at the bottom off the file, right after that ?> a Carriage Return & Line Feed in programmers speak. That’s it. You hit the Enter key in one wrong place and the whole pack of cards comes tumbling down!
In Colin’s case it was an extra carriage return in his wp-config.php file after the closing “?>”. In my case the problem was not 1 but 2 extra carriage returns at the end of my theme’s functions.php file.