Ryan McDonnell - Pursuing Web Application Zen

WordPress

Multiple blogs, one WordPress install, zero code changes

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Now I know there are plenty of patches and other projects out there to host multiple blogs from a single installation of WordPress. Many of them focus on trying to host multiple blogs that have a common element such as users, site design, or subdomains. What I wanted to do was a bit different.

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Stop comment spam on a Wordpress blog

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I originally posted this in the comments on a recent TechCrunch article, TechCrunch has 15,000 Spam Comments Per Day. I thought it was worth archiving here also.

 This is a method I’ve used successfully to bring comment spam to screaching halt on some of my clients’ blogs. Read more »

Redirect /index.php to / with WordPress

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

When evaluting the search engine rankings for some clients with WordPress blogs I noticed that many of the engines were indexing the http://www.domain.com/index.php and http://www.domain.com/ URLs separately. Obviously this is not ideal as it splits up the ranking and authority for that single page into two unique URLs. Read more »

About Ryan McDonnell

I am a web application developer living in southern California. Commonly called a “jack of all trades” by collegues, I constantly strive to broaden my knowledge into other fields.
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