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Testing WordPress iPhone App
Posted by Scott Ahlsmith in Blogs on November 1, 2009
iPhone Cold Weather Gear
This is my first post from the new WordPress iPhone app. It was easy to download from the iTunes’ App Store, its free, and its setup was straight forward. The UI fits the iPhone format and conforms to its layout and navigation guidelines.
The only feature I can’t find is the ability to load photos in a post. As I design principle for this blog, I always like to start the post with an illustrative photo or graphic.
PS. I learned how to load a photo (obviously) through trial and error. The sequence of when the photo is loaded, however, determines where it appears in the post. In order for it to appear in the most upper-left position, it must be loaded before any text is added. In order to position it where you see it now, I had to edit the post using WordPress’ Admin Dashboard.
Controlling Blog Spam
Posted by Scott Ahlsmith in Blogs on October 31, 2009
Automatic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a social collaboration effort to eliminate comment and trackback spam WordPress blogs. Ahlsmith’s Aspirations uses the WordPress platform and Akismet keeps spam out of the comments and trackbacks to posts on this blog.
Within days of setting-up this blog I started receiving 2 to 3 alerts a day saying that my latest post had comments or trackback requests awaiting my approval. If I accepted those comments and trackbacks, I could have opened a pharmacy. The spammers were pushing Ambien, Valtrex, Lavetra, Viagra, and more.
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