The CMS world seems an ever-expanding collection of remakes and novel frameworks. In fact, when you look around for a system it’s a bewildering experience; too many, too much. Inside the enterprise category there are some extremely sophisticated systems; SiteFinity, SiteCore, SharePoint and alike. In the open source category there are the famous ones like Drupal, Joomla and WordPress and Microsoft recently also released the wonderful Orchard. So, which one fits the bill? Each business has its own needs and criteria but from this side the following criteria were important: customization: API quality, documentation, programming language and support. A system like Sitecore is for sure the max but there is also a steep learning curve. On the other side of [...]

Pinned sites and metatags, how to do it in a WordPress theme definition. »

While setting up a secondary WordPress site on IIS7 I encountered the infamous “The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.” error and it’s one of those things you can be bugged by for hours to discover in the end that the solution is really simple.   When setting up a WordPress site you normally have to pass through the “WP-admin/install.php” but for some strange reason II7 will intercept this as an error. That is, if you disable showing errors. Once you enable showing detailed errors the normal WordPress setup will pop up.   Just open the IIS Errors page settings     and instead of the “Detailed errors local requests” only of the erros, select the [...]

A .Net wrapper around the WordPress XML-RPC API. »

WordPress soars high in the blog engines charts and for myself remains a pleasure to work with. Partly because of the perfection, partly because of the immense community (plugins, designs & templates…), partly because of the free and perfect spamming control through Akismet. I just upgraded from v2.6 to v2.7 and it went smooth as silk, like any other previous upgrade in fact. Crack-full of new features and a slick new admin design, everything gets better. Compatibility with existing plugins, automatic upgrade of the database, wysiwyg editing of posts and comments…so much goodness for free. Kudos to the devs of WordPress, pure class. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is [...]

A .Net version of the WordPress metaweblog API via the XML-RPC library. »

Sorry, but I really don’t get it. Do they really think I’m going to click on any of their digusting links, do they really think their spamming has any results? I presume they don’t even look whether their spamming actually appears on the website, otherwise they’d obviously notice that none of their stuff gets through. I get every day heaps of suspicious comments which require approval and, thanks heaven, WordPress together with Akismet filter with an amazing precision the spam out of it. Looking at the stats of Akismet you can see that on an average day around 5.000.000 comments are being filtered out of which only (…speechless..) 500.000 are so called ‘ham’ messages, i.e. meaningful data. Looking even further [...]