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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 [...]
WordPress: WP-Cache acting funny?
01.Feb.07 | 2 Comments
A week or so back, I realized that the WP-Cache plugin was acting funny at this site. In hindsite, it probably started when I had (once again) switched back to using Spam Karma 2 as part of my anti-spam protection.
To summarize: When new posts or comments are made, the cache should update or [...]
Thursday Hodge-Podge
07.Dec.06 | Leave a Comment
Running around getting ready for a big family weekend. Odds are, this may be the last post for a few days.
Here’s a pile of things that folks might find interesting. I’ve had them on my “to write about” stack for overly long, so tonight we cover a lot of ground!
Blog Spam reaching new levels
20.May.06 | 7 Comments
Seems something new started up last week and as a result the amount of spam comments and trackback spam that folks are receiving is sky-rocketing. In fact we had to sticky a generic post over at the WordPress.org support forums to help minimize the number of forum posts all on the same topic. [...]
