Stephanie Leary

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Spam link plugin for BuddyPress

October 22, 2012 Stephanie Leary 4 Comments

TL;DR: I wrote a small BuddyPress plugin to restore the "mark as spammer" link in the admin toolbar and add a "spammer" button to the activity stream's actions. You can grab it on GitHub. Here's the deal... I maintain a small BuddyPress site, and it gets hammered with spam … [Read more...]

WordPress buddypress, spam

How to do damn near anything with WordPress

October 7, 2012 Stephanie Leary 15 Comments

A couple of the plugins listed here show up on Extend with warnings about not having been updated in the last two years. You can ignore those warnings. They haven't been updated because they were written correctly in the first place. Best Plugin for...? Great big list of best … [Read more...]

Featured, WordPress bbPress, buddypress, Custom Fields, custom post types, debugging, development, domain mapping, javascript, jquery, json, MIME types, multisite, oembed, performance, Plugins, post formats, scaling, security, taxonomies, themes

Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress

February 1, 2011 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

In chatting with a few people at WordCamp Phoenix about our various BuddyPress sites, the issue of spam user accounts came up several times. I'd just run into this problem myself on the VP Alumni site, and after cleaning out about 400 bogus users (all with usernames like … [Read more...]

WordPress akismet, buddypress, spam, splogs

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Fascism Watch

The Fascism Watch is a daily(ish) news roundup. View all the previous Fascism Watch posts »

Latest WordPress Book

Content Strategy for WordPress

A short book for content strategists and managers on implementing a complete content strategy in WordPress: evaluation, analysis, content modeling, editing and workflows, and long-term planning and maintenance.

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WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers (9781430258667)

This is a book for professional web designers and developers who already know HTML and CSS, and want to learn to build sites with WordPress. The book begins with a detailed tour of the administration screens and settings, then digs into server-side topics like performance and security. The second half of the book is devoted to development: learning to build WordPress themes and plugins.

This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything’s been updated for WordPress 3.6.

WordPress for Web Developers is out now. See what's inside...

The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Screen Options
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Bulk Edit
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Private Status
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Dashboard Feed Readers
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Options.php

Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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