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Comments on WordPress.com

September 29, 2007 in WordPress by Carsten Pötter | View Comments

It’s odd, I have almost forgotten that I also have a WordPress.com account; however I don’t run a blog there. The only blog I run is this one and it is powered by the self-hosted version of WordPress. If I remember correctly I got a WordPress.com account because Akismet, the spam filtering plugin for WordPress, required an API Key which is just available from WordPress.com. Also a stats plugin is running there.

I have never paid attention to the other tabs of the dashboard. I better had, though. It has a nice comment tracking tab which is just working fine. The only drawback is that it only works for comments made on WordPress.com blogs. It’s very convenient and you don’t need an additional comment tracking plugin or service like coComment or Commentful.

Also I have realised that I better change my email address and my publicly displayed name there; they are used for my comments and are not the same ones I usually use. Fixed that. :)

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WordPress Category Feeds and FeedBurner

June 12, 2007 in Blog, WordPress by Carsten Pötter | View Comments

A few days ago David Recordon asked if he could get a RSS feed for my blog posts tagged with OpenID to add to planet.openid.net. I happily agreed though it turned out I had trouble providing a category feed.

Usually WordPress automatically generates category feeds in the form: www.example.com/category/yourcategory/feed. I use FeedBurner and unfortunately, those category feeds were redirected back to the main FeedBurner feed. I was searching Google for two evenings, tried several plugins but did not succeed; I even considered leaving FeedBurner.

Eventually I have found the solution in the depths of the WordPress support forums. All I had to do was updating the Permalink Redirect plugin. It couldn’t be easier. Lucky me. :)

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New WordPress Stats Plugin

May 6, 2007 in WordPress by Carsten Pötter

The fine folks at WordPress Automattic have released a new statistics plugin for people who host their own WordPress installation. Well, actually it is not a new plugin rather the one bloggers on the WordPress.com platform already know.

If you want to use this plugin you have to provide your WordPress.com API Key which most people should have because Akismet is demanding it as well. Statistics are managed on WordPress.com, though. There is just a link from your Dashboard to WordPress.com where you can see the statistics. This might be a little strange, however it should reduce server load on your side.

I am curious which data it will provide and how it compares to other statistics tools I’m currently running. Below is a screenshot of the plugin shortly after installation.

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