I use Eric Meyer’s WP-Gatekeeper plugin in place of a graphical captcha for my comment forms. I’m not a believer in captchas due to issues with accessibility. Meyer’s plugin is nice because it asks a question in which the answer is blatantly obvious and it requires a human to enter an answer. So far, bots [...]
20 May, 2007
Posted by: pat In: Asides
Aaron at TechnoSailor and filisofo at Il Filosofo document some of the cool features in Wordpress 2.2.
My redesign is just about done. My comments form is tweaked, with labels restructured for greater accessibility. I added a fieldset, too, for giggles. Yes, those are Google Ads in the sidebar. Figured I’d see if I can make a little money with this. Why not?
I took the dark stripe above the main nav and [...]
Wow. Joe Clark looked over Wordpress 2.01Alpha against the ATAG (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0) and created a wonderful, detailed assessment. I had a thought a few months back of seeing what it would take to make Wordpress’s administrative interface as accessible as possible. Joe’s a step and a leap ahead of me.
He doesn’t address [...]
23 Jan, 2007
Posted by: pat In: Geekery
It’s out. Grab it here. Changes include:
Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
Our completely redone visual editor also now [...]