Working on a WordPress customisation recently, I added an "Edit This" link which only logged-in people can see. To get caching right, the server always outputs the same thing - an invisible link - and only in the browser does the decision get made to show the link or not. This exemplifies the pattern I [...]
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WordPress “Edit This” Links via Ajax
November 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Ajax·AjaxPatterns·Javascript·Wordpress
Captcha Impossibillis
March 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments · HumansAndTech
(Update: Thanks ImageShack for deleting my images.)
I was wrong, the third character is apparently a nine.
There ought to be a Captcha gallery/blog for all these. Apparently I'm not the only one who feels that way. Oh well, blame the spammers.
But more to the point, what's up with this Captcha brought to you by the letters [...]
Tags: Accessibility·Captcha·HCI·Wordpress
Thanks For Your Comments, Friends
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
I've been wondering why I haven't received blog comments for a while now. Assumed there must be some spam issue, but only today did I investigate it - triggered by a Dugg article on Akizmet's false positives. (Akizmet is the WordPress web-service-based spam filter.) Akizmet has done a great job at separating definites from possibles, [...]
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Tags: Akizmet·Blogging·Comments·Spam·Wordpress