Quartiles Solver
Generate possible solutions to the Apple News+ Quartiles game by comparing all 1- to 4-tile combinations against a large word list.
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Wordle Solver
Find possible solutions to The New York Times Wordle game by searching a list of known 5-letter words.
Spelling Bee Solver
Find possible solutions to The New York Times Spelling Bee game by searching a list of known words with at least 4 characters that include the specified required and optional letters.
Analytical Spam Filter
WordPress plugin to block comment spam, trackback spam, and pingback spam through intelligent analytics instead of interactive challenge response tests.
Head Trimmer
Customizable WordPress plugin to selectively remove WordPress version information, feeds, shortlinks, xmlrpc, emoji support and other miscellaneous extras from the HEAD element.
Micro Contact Form
WordPress contact form plugin requiring only basic data entry (message subject, message content, from name, and return e-mail address) to send a brief message to the blog administrator's e-mail address.
Custom Field Embedder
WordPress plugin to embed custom field values into pages and posts through a simple shortcode.
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