Category — WordPress

Compete has just released a list of the top moving sites of 2007.

From the social platform genre, we have CafeMom, LinkedIn, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Squidoo, Webkinz, Six Apart, and WordPress, among others.

Are there any surprises in this list?

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Sometimes you need something besides Akismet. I have Defensio on a few sites. But I’m testing the new version of WP Spam Hit Man. So far I’m extremely happy.

So what does it do?

Sometimes you get some comments which from very beginning you know they are spam. It is because spam bots used certain words inside them and in many cases - a lot of those words. You can’t ban then entirely because some of real people still use those words - maybe not in that amount - but still. Here where WP Spam Hitman comes in. It allows you to write as many words or regular expressions you want and set a number from which you are pretty sure that some comment is a spam.

Then it checks every comment/trackback/pingback and count how many hit point that comment gets (so for instance - how many usually-spam words it contains). If a comment gets enough of those hits - certain action will be performed.

You can simply delete the message and never think about it again. You can also mark it as spam or throw it into moderation.

Go get it.

If you are like me you are always looking for ways to increase productivity so I can spend more time building relationships that are so key to business. Well Post Ideas just became an instant hit on one of my blogs and hopefully will be putting on any of my team oriented sites. It’s just perfect for keeping track of post ideas that I often have and I fail to actually create it because I lose the little post it note on my blog.

Go get it.

Profy, a blogging application developed in Russia just launched an Alpha version of its hosted product which I could see becoming very popular in business and enterprise circles. I think many of its cooler features are already being developed by folks inside the WordPress community, and Vox would also be a similar product from SixApart.

Profy has finally launched our very own blogging platform in alpha. We have been developing it here in Russia for more than a year now and the alpha release is a very important step. We were sitting and waiting nervously for the first reviews after the embargo was lifted and I think I will post links to some of the first reviews here to cordially thank all the bloggers.Crenk was the first to break the story though I was a bit disappointed to see our press release almost unchanged. But you need to stick to using language from press releases when you want to break news and be the first.

I personally haven’t liked the WordPress Dashboard for a long long long time. Hopefully with WordPress 2.5 upgrade we will see some striking differences that I can see myself liking. Hopefully this roles out smoothly and is an effective alternative to what I find cluttered and sluggish on the backend.