Is that spam or are you just trying to comment? Removing nofollow attributes from your WordPress-powered site is a great way to encourage comments and attract visitors. Many commentators will leave useful, constructive feedback, but there will always be a few losers who would attempt to game your generous link love. Fortunately, identifying these mindless link whores is relatively easy. Here are a few priceless examples of actual spam (i.e., linked) comments left here at Perishable Press [...] • Read more »
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Hacking WordPress: Nofollow Blacklist for Commentator Links
Previously, in our unofficial “WordPress dofollow upgrade” series, we dished several techniques for removing the antisocial nofollow attributes from default installations of WordPress. After an exhaustive review of available dofollow plugins, we explained how drop-dead easy it is to transform any WordPress blog into a well-standing member of the dofollow community without relying on a plugin to do the job. Our next article detailed a nofollow removal hack selectively targeting pingbacks, trackbacks, and commentator links. Then, we [...] • Read more »
Industrial Strength WordPress Dofollow Upgrade
Encourage Comments by Completely Eliminating All Nofollow Links Want to remove all traces of the hideous nofollow attribute without having to install yet another unnecessary plugin? By default, WordPress generates nofollow links in three different ways — this article will show you how to eliminate all of them.. Some context please.. Note: if you are already familiar with the various functions involved in the nofollow-removal process, please feel free to skip the proceeding discussion and jump directly [...] • Read more »
The Deluxe One-Minute Dofollow WordPress Upgrade
After our previous article, we all know how easy it is to kill the default nofollow attributes that WordPress automatically injects into all commentator, trackback, and pingback links. Indeed, our original one-minute upgrade delivers dofollow links across the board, effectively passing the love juice to every type of response. Fine for some, but some need more.. In this article, we improve the original dofollow upgrade by differentiating between the three different response types. With our “deluxe” model, [...] • Read more »
The One-Minute Dofollow WordPress Upgrade
Want to upgrade your blog to official dofollow status but don’t want to install another unnecessary plugin? This article explains how to eliminate nofollow tags from all trackback, pingback, and commentator links in less than one minute.. After finally repenting of my nofollow sins, I began looking for the best way to eliminate the nofollow attributes that WordPress automatically injects into all commentator URL links. Of course, the most popular technique for removing nofollow attributes from comment [...] • Read more »
Another Mystery Solved..
Recently, after researching comment links for an upcoming article, I realized that my default <input /> values were being submitted as the URL for all comments left without associated website information. During the most recent site redesign, I made the mistake of doing this in comments.php: … <input class=”input” name=”url” id=”url” value=”[website]” onfocus=”this.select();” type=”text” tabindex=”3″ size=”44″ maxlength=”133″ alt=”website” /> … Notice the value=”[website]” attribute? It seemed like a good idea at the time — I even threw [...] • Read more »
Wrapping Your Head around Downlevel Conditional Comments
If you think you understand the logic behind Microsoft’s downlevel conditional comments, you are sadly mistaken. Sure, they seem simple enough on the surface, but as you really try to wrap your head around how and why they work, the subtle complexities of downlevel conditional comments may leave you dazed and confused… In our previous article on Internet Explorer’s exclusive browser-detection method, downlevel conditional comments (DCC), we present an introductory exposition, defining expressions and providing several generalized [...] • Read more »
Contact Perishable via Comment
If you have question, comment, or concern, and prefer to leave a comment rather than send an email, please drop a comment via the form below. I keep a close eye on all comments left on this post, and will do my best to respond in as soon as possible. Please note that all comments left at this post are open to the public and available for anyone to see. That said, have at it! • Read more »
BlogStats PCC Plugin
Update (2012/11/08): BlogStats PCC has been rebuilt with all new features and options. Check out Simple Blog Stats for all the action! </update> Announcing the BlogStats PCC plugin for WordPress! BlogStats PCC is the easy way to display the total number of posts, comments, categories, as well as several other great statistics for your WordPress-powered website. With BlogStats PCC, you display only the information you want, where you want — inside or outside of the WordPress loop. [...] • Read more »
Display the Total Number of WordPress Posts, Comments, and Categories
Would you like to display the total number of posts, comments, and categories for your WordPress-powered website? Here is the code that can make it happen 1! Update: The count posts part of this method should only be used for WordPress versions less than 2.5. For WordPress versions 2.5 and better, there is a built-in function for displaying the total number of posts. See The WordPress Codex for more information. <?php $numposts = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts [...] • Read more »
Protected: Password Monkey
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Gravatars at Perishable Press
Step right up and leave a comment! Complete Gravatar functionality in full effect. Leave a comment to sport your gravatar. Of course, you must have a gravatar to use this feature. Check out this post to see some tuf gravatar action in effect. Hint: gravatars are the small images that appear next to post comments. They are meant to represent the person leaving the comment. • Read more »
Tell the Cows
Run and tell the cows to come home because I am have problems. http://perishablepress.com/press/2005/10/04/tell-the-cows/ http://perishablepress.com/tell-the-cows/ • Read more »
Praise and Criticism
praise & criticism Hello Google, i have been using the google homepage (google.com) as my personal internet start page for several years now. i have emailed before with praise for the page’s very simple & elegant design asthetics. however, i am occasionally annoyed with the periodic advertising frequenting the page. For example, today i discovered the return of the pesky “google toolbar” advertisement. yuck. (strictly speaking of the start page) i realize that i am scrutinizing a [...] • Read more »