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Fighting spam – How is it going?

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Back in September, in the post Spam – What are we going to do? I’ve declared my personal war with spammers. Now it’s time for a summary of actions taken and their results. Initially my line of defence consisted of Akismet plugin from Automattic. It did an excellent job of identifying and marking unwanted comments […]

Spam – What are we going to do?

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People say that I am the most patient person on earth. But there are limits to even an extreme patience. I am talking about spam comments on this website. Long time ago I’ve made my decision to keep this website open. No registration required. No obstacles for people willing to see it, to comment on […]

Introducing WordPress 3.1 Post Formats

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Some people hate it and some love it. I belong to the second category. If you, as a webmaster, don’t like it, simply do not enable theme support for post formats. I think that post formats bring incredible possibilities to website presentation. Basic requirements: WP 3.1, theme support, knowledge of CSS and WP filters, imagination, […]

Using fonts hosted on your site

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In Using Google Font API article I’ve presented one method of incorporating specific fonts into your website. The Google’s method will free you from any legal problems related to hosting unlicenced fonts, however, there are couple of drawbacks. Fonts have to be downloaded from Google’s servers and that takes time. Secondly, there are only 14 […]

Using Google Font API

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For many years web developers had to rely on fonts being available on viewers’ machines. Not any more – thanks to Google Font API. I’ll present just one simple example of this method. For a list of available fonts go to Google Font Directory. For a complete documentation visit Google Font API. Example: This is […]