This blog is mainly for updates about my WordPress plugins–which, frankly, haven’t had much attention from me lately, since I’m frantically trying to finish my dissertation. But in the meantime, check out AbstractPolitics.com , summarizing the latest research from leading political scientists in an easy-to-read digest. Political scientists aren’t pundits; that is, the point of [...]

Recently, Scott Allen released WP SpamFree , claiming that it “virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots.” It does so by using JavaScript to send a cookie to the commenter’s browser. Since most bots ignore javascript, Scott reasons, then this should eliminate automated comment spam. There’s only one problem: The plugin is way, way, waaay [...]

I’ve just installed the spankin’-new wavatars plugin, and it has my vote for plugin of the year. Wavatars are an extension of the gravatars concept, but a dramatic improvement. So here’s the backstory: In the bad old days, if you wanted to put an image (an “avatar”) next to your comments on somebody’s blog, you [...]