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Daily Prompt: Progress

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The Daily Prompt asks “When you look back at your blog on January 2, 2015, what would you like to see?” and my answer is… I would like to see that there is an article published on my blog. If there is one article published on January 2, 2015 or any other days around this date, then it would mean I am still alive at this time and that would be a circumstance I would like. But apart from that, I hope that I generally still write on my blog, because I like it at the moment. If I am … Continue reading Daily Prompt: Progress

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Asking you… Do you prefer nested or non-nested chronological comment discussion settings on a blog?

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I did set up my blog so that comments and discussions can be nested. But at the moment I ask myself if I should go back to the normal settings which do not allow nested comments. The problems I see with nested comments is that you have to set up how deep discussions are allowed to be nested and if you set it up that it allows 3 or 5 levels of nested discussion, the conversation between the people can stop abrupt as people think that it does not make sense to reply to a person if the last level … Continue reading Asking you… Do you prefer nested or non-nested chronological comment discussion settings on a blog?

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Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
WordPress.com is the biggest blogging platform around, and one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet the team that keeps it running is an intimate group of 224 Automatticians (thinking of joining our ranks? We’re always hiring). Among them are the Code Wranglers at work on our great features, the designers who make sure every pixel in your theme is in its right place, and the Happiness Engineers who work around the clock to solve any issue our users encounter. Among the people working on WordPress.com, you’ll find marathon runners, home brewers, slam poets, and global nomads… Continue reading Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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Spam comments and how you can avoid to let them come through

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While Akismet does work already pretty good as a blog spam comment filter, it is sometimes necessary to drop some spam comments manually into the wordpress spam folder, so that Akismet can learn about new spam to filter out spam comment even better in the future. I´d say that Akismet can already filter out 95% of the junk comments but there are always some comments coming through, which I would call the 5% of the new blog spammers who are not in the list of Akismet´s database yet. It is not much work to teach Akismet that it is a … Continue reading Spam comments and how you can avoid to let them come through