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Defensio Counts Differently Than I Do
25.Nov.07 | 9 Comments
I’ve been experimenting with the latest Anti-Spam WordPress plugin: Defensio. In general, it seems to work pretty well, but I have noticed some oddities.
Honestly, it really does work well. At first it didn’t seem to be learning very quickly — even marked one of my own comments as spam! Ouch, that hurt a [...]
Knowing When to Close ‘em
10.May.07 | Leave a Comment
A bit over a month ago, I mentioned Comment Timeout, a WordPress plugin that can be very helpful in the ongoing battle against blog spam. It does some slick stuff and even has integration with Bad Behavior, another great weapon in the same battle.
The option to automatically block comments with bbcode in them is [...]
Another Tool in the Blog Anti-Spam Toolkit
18.Mar.07 | 3 Comments
Blog spam is a bummer, isn’t it? So much of it is automated and shows up as Trackbacks or Pingbacks. Without using decent tools, a blogger can easily find themself spending way too much time chasing this stuff around. That causes folks to sometimes take extreme measures like forcing commenter registration [...]
Favorite WordPress Plugins (well, for this week at any rate)
18.Dec.06 | 3 Comments
An interesting side-effect of spending so much time hanging out at the WordPress support forums is that I see a lot of plugins announced or mentioned. And if they catch my eye (”oooh, shiny!”) I install them. As a result, I have quite a pile of plugins running in spite of my initial [...]
Fake Ajax, some Dia and bit of Bad Behavior
30.Mar.06 | 1 Comment
How positively fun is this post on Fake Ajax? Sure it’s cheesy. Sure it is IE only. But yet… I found myself adding it to a couple web apps that I know are largely used by IE users. Ya know, it does smooth things out nicely and Firefox just cheerfully [...]
