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Multi-blog Multi-user metadata support

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In my comments, Eric Wallace asked about multi-weblog support. I can answer him, with a few caveats, that yes, the first alpha release of Wordform will have multi-weblog support. The caveats are that this support, in addition to multi-user support, will be added as formalized extensions to the base product. Much of […]

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Comment spam prevention in Wordform

I believe that, eventually, most comment spam strategies will have to have a system-wide component in place to truly combat this problem — something to watch for comment spam patterns happening on a server, and throttle accordingly. However, that’s something that can’t really be handled with the application. So, I’ll focus on what I can […]

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Why Wordform needs active users

Wordform is not being developed in isolation, specifically because I hope to capture input from people who could be considered the potential users of the product. It is more fun to go ‘Ta Da!’ and have the application all finished, to ooohs and ahhhs; but an inherent problem with this is that each of us […]

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Adapting Admin for extensibility

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Many of the earlier changes I’m making to WordPress will be behind the scenes, in the administration pages. In fact, when I finish these changes, I probably will release a copy of the product as it will then be sufficiently different enough from WordPress to have earned status as a […]

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Out, damn’d open source! out, I say!

I have had an usual number of requests for files this last week. These are files that I’ve either accidentally removed during moves between tools; or deliberately removed because I need the space for new development. Among files accidentally lost were ones for my post Stepping Stones to a Safer Blog, about how to make Movable […]