Tag Archives: Akismet

Episode 42: Our favorite plugins, Ask Matt, WordPress Theme Design

Automattic CEO and WordPress project leader Matt Mullenweg was a guest on episode 17 of the WordPress Weekly podcast with Jeff Chandler, and during the show, I asked Matt why WordCamp San Francisco, scheduled this upcoming August 16th at the … Continue reading

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

Episode 9 of The WordPress Podcast covers WordPress 2.0.5 causing a 500-Internal Server Error for some users, WordPress MU 1.0 has been released and bbPress 0.72 has been reintroduced, Google now provides custom searchs for your blogs, the WP-Websnapr plug-in, Sara Cormeny provides a tutorial on how to restyle the WordPress log-in page to rebrand it and 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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Episode 6: Akismet rumors, lots of new and updated plug-ins, listener mail

Episode 6 of The WordPress Podcast covers Mike Adams joining Automattic to work on bbPress, WordPress.com shopping for a 3rd datacenter, Akismet upgrade rumors, WordPress.com adds avatars and other features, a possible AdSense widget, The AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System, the Geotrack, SEO Title Tag, Ultimate Tag Warrior, FeedBurner and Plain Text plug-ins, Mike Bergman’s new WYSIWYG editor, the Yet Another Photo Blog and WordPress Galeria plug-ins, the Post Avatar, Search Meter, coComment enhancement and Happy Pals plug-ins.

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Chief Executive Insight with Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Akismet and many other WordPress related projects. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony … Continue reading

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Episode 33: WordPress 2.3.2 released, WordPress 2.4 missed and changes to the podcast

Discussed in this long-overdue and extremely lengthy episode are such subjects as: Changes coming for the podcast WordPress 2.3.2 released and is considered an urgent security release. WordPress 2.4 is a missed release, WordPress 2.5 in the works: Westi on … Continue reading

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