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Twitter changes affect WordPress plugins

Yesterday, Twitter updated its API (the method by which websites and other programs access Twitter feeds) so that a particular kind of authentication (oAuth) is required. “Big woop”, you may say, or possibly “what are you talking about?”. Well, if you use WordPress, it may affect you. What it means is that any WordPress plugins [...]

WordPress 2.9 Released

I woke up rather early this morning to the news that WordPress 2.9 has now passed through all its testing and release candidate cycles, and is now available. This is great news for all WordPress developers and bloggers, because this release is a “second digit” release and therefore more than just a collection of security [...]

ZigPress is now “DoFollow”

Many articles have been published about the merits (or de-merits) of using “nofollow” links on websites and blogs, especially in comment signatures. Essentially, if a link is “nofollow”, then Google and other search engines will not count it as a “backlink” to the site it links to, thus preventing the site from gaining ranking from [...]

Technorati Code

I’m adding this blog to Technorati, and so I have to put this code – 4e2zk8punh – into a post. Move along, nothing to see here, etc.