The default install of Wordpress archives the post of an “author” on a page with the page slug “/author/{name}”. Have you ever wanted something different on your multi-author blog?
The question came up during our redesign of MyBiggestComplaint.com. We realized our authors had become much more than authors, they were full-on, pedal to the metal users. […]

As the internet becomes one big huge social networking blob, the avatar is becoming the standard for visible user identity. Massive social networking sites like MyBlogLog have created repositories of avatar snapshots that are distributed across other sites in sidebars and blog comments.
The use of a central repostitory like MyBlogLog to pull user avatars to […]

YSlow is a Firefox Add-on by Yahoo! that analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites.
Wordpress plugins kill your YSlow score. Everyone has always known that plugins can slow your blog on the backend, but YSlow reveals the drag some plugins can cause on the […]

I have no idea if this Wordpress plugin is a good idea or whether or not it works, but this is the way you should release a plugin.

I’ve heard it said before that “plugin authors get no love”. I agree, but Postreach Click Comments is a step in the right direction. So much a step […]

We are releasing a 750px wide version of our popular YUI-Mainstream built on the framework of the YUI Grids CSS library. The theme is based upon the SEO Sandbox Theme by Ian Purton, which is a fantastic place to start for all theme developers thinking about making accessbile, standards compliant themes.

750px wide with 240px sidebar […]

Truemors debuted this week to (I think it’s fair to say) an initially negative response. The site seems to have survived the first onslaught of hardcore spammers and after reading Guy Kawaski’s response to an increasingly bitchy blogosphere, it seems the site is obviously well thought out and Guy definitely has some thick skin.
Truemors is […]

Less than 24 hours ago, we published part two of our series “Attacking Scrapers And Content Thieves - Legally”. We chose to focus on techniques to secure and protect your feed from scraper sites and content thieves like TechAddress.com, one of the most prolific high profile scaper sites around. The site is camouflaged to be […]

This is part two of a multi-part blog series about using the law to protect your blog content against scrapers and thieves. In part one of this series, I showed you how to prepare your blog to fight - legally.
Your blog feed is perhaps the most important part of your blog. Truly successful blogs have […]

While installing Gravatars2 plugin for Wordpress on another site, I noticed the plugin drains tons of pagerank to the Gravatar site. Gravatars are cool and almost mandatory for a Web 2.0 community driven site. I’m not sure if this intentional or not but anyone using the plugin should be aware of the fact.
To stop the […]

This is part one of a multi-part blog series about using the law to protect your blog content against scrapers and thieves.
To fight scrappers legally, you need to get your blog in shape - legally.
I am amazed as I browse about the world of weblogs each day at the amount of blogs who do not […]