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On an edge case like this, where there are 200k-ish comments awaiting moderation, deleting via the admin panel just won’t do.

Previously it was using Movable Type, according to this article. You might dismiss Friendster as insignificant today, but it’s still big on other parts of the world, like here in Southeast Asia.

Spoiler: WordPress isn’t there. It’s still an interesting read, if just for the inspiration. You’ll have to weigh in the usability factors and so forth to get a fair comparison.

1 million increase in 4 months.

For the social networking junkies out there.

For the stat junkies out there.

Not about free themes this time, but about WordPress-powered sites with great designs. Prepare to feel inferior get inspired

A good read, if you could just avoid the damn annoying “GET YOUR FREE BLA BLA BLA” links.

Small tutorial on how to add your own button (say, a “h2″ button) on your Post Editor. Nifty.

Jeffro with a good question.

This got me thinking. WordPress is backed by Automattic, the privately held company which has millions in venture capital funding. I know Automattic is behind their brainchild, WordPress.com but they also seem to take over the costs involved with the WordPress.org project

Creating your own uploads directory could be a good idea:

Wordpress (self-hosted) by default stores all your images in the post in wp-content/uploads folder which not only is a bad for SEO but also can cause you trouble in future when your blog gets high traffic.

Will be out next week. Looks like it’s going to be a great app. Via Jonathan Snook.

Great list, very useful. We need more posts on this topic, seriously.

Pat Dryburgh on how to use sIFR3 on your theme. I like how simple it is to do, have to try this soon.

I don’t know, running WP on IIS was a nightmare-ish experience to me, but still. This could be useful to some.

Spoiler: WP lose. If you’ve followed @wordpress on Twitter, I believe you already guessed it, though. It’s a terrific analysis, go read it.

Not for the faint of heart, but I think the idea is neat. It has solutions for two different situation: Shared Host+CPanel without SSH and Shared/VPN+Cpanel with SSH access. Check it out.

Oh man, oh man… this is definitely useful. I like it that it is actually based on real-life scenario:

Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.

Yeah:

Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August 27th. It came out a few weeks before the Twin Towers fell. It came out before the Nintendo GameCube. It came out before the first iPod.

WPLover ignores IE6 completely since the beginning. Haven’t regretted that decision one bit. Try to do the same with your site one day.

It’s liberating.