The WordPress Podcast

Episode 9: Problems with WordPress 2.0.5, a review of Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2, and more…

October 30th, 2006 | Category: Podcast

Episode 9 covers:

  1. Our listeners get a discount on hosting at Fuzzy Hosting.
  2. WordPress 2.0.5 causes a 500-Internal Server Error for some users, but Mark Jaquith has a tune-up plug-in to correct it.
  3. WordPress MU 1.0 is released and bbPress 0.72 is reintroduced.
  4. Google allows you to create custom searchs for your blogs. Joel Pan (ketsugi) details its features while Steve Graham (Nezz) points out concerns with its terms of service.
  5. WP-Websnapr displays thumbnail images of sites you link to.
  6. Sara Cormeny provides a tutorial on how to restyle the WordPress log-in page to rebrand it.
  7. Mark Jaquith reviews and compares the three leading anti-comment spam plug-ins, Akismet, Bad Behavior 2 and Spam Karma 2.
 
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15 Comments so far

  1. brendan October 30th, 2006 6:23 am

    Another good episode.

    As a side note - you’re now showing up in Wordpress Dashboard RSS entries, along with photomatt, et all (congrats!).

    .. so you might want to shorten those post titles a bit. :)

  2. David October 30th, 2006 11:07 am

    We use Fuzzy Hosting. Been with them for over 2 months and we never had an issue.

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  4. MarcNext » Blog Archive » WordPress podcast over upgrade error October 30th, 2006 4:32 pm

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  5. Lloyd D Budd October 30th, 2006 4:32 pm

    Another fantastic podcast! Awesome collaboration Charles with Sara and Mark! Both Sara and Mark do an amazing job. (There may be a little volume issue with Mark’s section, it seems a bit quieter than the beginning)

    —

    I almost laugh every time you say Fuzzy Hosting. It is quite the name. I have no idea what “A Fuzzy Approach to Hosting” means.

    No, I have never been pleasantly surprised by a thumbnail images of sites on hover over. The thumbnails are just to small to give any useful information.

  6. Kim October 30th, 2006 5:13 pm

    Great show once again Charles. I must agree with Lloyd you saying Fuzzy Hosting make me chuckle. Although I like their site and might give them a try.

    Can’t wait for EP 10 :)

  7. Wordpress Workshop October 30th, 2006 6:55 pm

    Mark Jaquith reviews were very helpful, thank you!

    Well done Mark!

    Aaron

  8. Andy Beard October 30th, 2006 7:30 pm

    I found Marks reviews helpful.

    I think the licensing of Spam Karma (it is free to use) is actually much clearer than that of Akismet, especially if you host multiple commercial blogs.

  9. Charles October 30th, 2006 7:31 pm

    Mark was fighting a cold when he recorded, and he has a normally light voice.

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  12. The Fuzzy Rabbit October 31st, 2006 11:25 am

    Wordpress Podcast Episode 9…

    Well another episode of the Wordpress Podcast was released last night. Charles spoke about the release of Wordpress 2.0.5 and how some users are experiencing the 500-Internal Server Error, WordPress MU 1.0 is released and bbPress 0.72 is reintroduced.
    …

  13. Xitanto November 2nd, 2006 3:49 am

    I was attacked by a dog during your ad for fuzzy hosting - true story, I was walking and listening to the podcast.

    Could you possibly take down the length of the ad for them next episode? Might save me from being bitten…

  14. Charles Stricklin November 2nd, 2006 8:55 am

    Xitanto,

    I am so sorry about your being bitten while listening to episode 9. Could it possibly be that it was so interesting and engaging that you failed to notice the dog running up towards you, and not some causal relationship between advertisement length and canine attacks? :)

    Seriously, even Fuzzy Hosting agreed it was too long. Heck, I thought it was too long!

    Don’t worry, they’ll be shorter in the future.

  15. Maria November 7th, 2006 8:59 pm

    cool

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