A collection of my favorite themeforest.net WordPress templates, mostly intended for web designers or graphics-related businesses.

In this post, I’ll explain how to reduce the amount of comment spam your WordPress blog receives by using an unobtrusive ‘handshake’ between the two files necessary for a valid comment submission to take place. I’ve written a few different articles on reducing comment spam by means of a challenge response test that the [...]

Comment spam comes from humans who are paid to post it and robots/scripts that do it automatically. The majority of spam comes from the bots. There’s very little one can do to defend against a determined human being, but bots tend to behave predictably, and that allows us to develop countermeasures.
From my observations, [...]

I’ve fixed some errors that I was experiencing with version 2.0 (dated 2007-02-02) of the Sociable WordPress plugin by Peter Harkins. Specifically, when running WordPress 2.2+, I would get the following warnings when saving changes:
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in PATH\wp-content\plugins\sociable\sociable.php on line 651

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in PATH\wp-content\plugins\sociable\sociable.php on line 762

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The WordPress function wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost’) displays a lovely list of posts, but won’t show the date of each post. This plugin adds each post’s date to those ‘postbypost’ lists, like so:
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This plugin allows you to add information from your Halo 3 Service Record to your WordPress blog.

Apricot is a text-heavy and graphic-light, widget- and tag-supporting minimalist WordPress theme built on a Kubrick foundation. Apricot validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and uses valid CSS. It natively supports the excellent Other Posts From Cat and the_excerpt Reloaded plugins, should you want to install them.
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This plugin allows you to add an XHTML and CSS Halo 2 Stats sig to your WordPress blog, which you can then style to fit your layout. The plugin displays your emblem, your level in each of the ranked game types, and your overall rank, which is equal to the highest ranked gametype. [...]

A WordPress plugin that will display a customizable XHTML and CSS Xbox 360 gamer card.

I was tired of seeing the majority of my posts’ comments feeds show up in Google’s Supplemental Index, so I changed all the individual posts’ comments RSS links to rel=”nofollow”. This should at least cause Googlebot to stop passing PageRank through those links, but what I really want is for Googlebot to stop spidering [...]