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WordPress 2.1 Ella - now with autosaving, optimised database queries, improved XML import/export, and many flashier features.

Out of all the celebrity news sites on the Internet, picking WeLoveCelebs.com to scrape in order to fill your Adsense spam blog with quick and easy content is a bad idea.
GossipHeadlines.com has scraped 5,000+ posts from various celebrity sites over the last few days, and unleashed a torrent of trackback spam upon our site1; both […]

Rhymed Code has 1001 WordPression Loops, an excellent collection of custom WordPress Loops.

Andy Skelton has an interesting article for webdesigners on making sure that your WordPress themes work in the abomination that is IE. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go obsessively check some markup….

I am so freakin’ glad that I decided to start hosting my site-oriented cron jobs on my PC instead of entrusting them to my webserver: for the third time in the last two months, they have ‘lost’ some of my data!
Not only did a newish blog that I am working on get deleted (it’s […]

I’ve been a fan of Scott Allan Wallick’s minimalist WordPress themes for a while now; their clean aesthetics are a refreshing change from over-complicated designs (er, much like some of the designs for this very site, ahem). I particularly like his Blog.txt theme, and have used it on another WordPress based project for it’s […]

WordPress Template Tags. Comes in handy when hacking up The Loop.

WordPress-to-WordPress Import looks to be quite a useful plugin:
“It will allow you to import blog entries and comments into an existing WordPress blog. It does not overwrite existing entries and it respects authors by giving you the ability to choose who the imported entries are attributed to.”

Plagiarism Today has an excellent article for blog owners on preventing spam sites from using your RSS feed in order to steal your content.
“White hats, recently, found another positive use for cloaking, the ability to stop scraping by providing different content to a scraper than to the rest of the world. This has proved […]

Due to a cockup of quite frankly staggering proportions that was made by my hosting company, in which the server that this site is hosted on was accidentally formatted, Quad Lasers has been offline for much of this week. After contacting the company this morning (for the third time since the incident), I was […]