Archive for November, 2007

This is the second in my round of reader polls. Last time I asked about knowledge and experience with PHP. This time I am using the WP-Polls plugin and I want to know what interests you about WordPress.

What aspects of WordPress are you most interested in?

What the community is doing

Plugins

Theme Hacking (snippets)

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Lots of people are talking about turning off Akismet for a day to see how much work it actually does. I think that’s mental!
I am inclined to think that it would be better to use an altered version with some kind of logging function so you get the stats without having to spend 24-36 hours [...]

I use the do-follow plugin. It seems to me that to decide that comments shouldn’t get any link love is a rather odd decision. It is a little like reducing the freedom of millions in order to prevent the odd terrorist here or there, i.e. it disproportionately tars everyone with the same brush.
There are a [...]

For the first poll of site readers I opted to use Poll Daddy. It was the first one that jumped out at me from the list on Google, and it has a free version, which is what I have reviewed. These are my thoughts on how it fared.
Whenever I first try any new tool I [...]