Comments are the lifeblood of any website. It keeps pumping some interesting views and discussions into a post. However, I have seen several blogs which close comments for posts which are older than say a month or two.
Throughout the course of a year on WeblogToolsCollection.com, there is a ton of information published about WordPress whether it be a link to something cool or a home grown guide covering a specific feature of WordPress. The purpose of this two part series is to look back at the best ...
I did a post for a Antivirus plugin for WordPress, several users commenting about different plugins that improve the security of WordPress, so I decided to sum up some of the plugins that provide security and comment spam protection for WordPress blogs.
Who doesn't hate spam? Ever since blogs became common place, one thing that we have to worry about is spammers. It is like the constant battle of good vs. evil with the good folks finding means to defend themselves and others and the bad ones finding better means to attack ...
I received a ping from Anil on their newly released beta product TypePad AntiSpam while I was on vacation. I told Anil that I would look into it and write a balanced article on it when I got back. I procrastinated on writing the post for quite a while but ...
When I recently wrote a post which pointed to an article that described a few things you should do with your WordPress blog immediately after having it installed, I noticed Collin made a comment in that, WordPress was like the Windows OS where as, it comes bundled with Internet Explorer ...
AutoFlickr will automatically find and insert one ore more photos that are related to the content of your post. Photos are found and hosted on Flickr. Ma.gnolia Wordpress Plugin makes it easy to output a list of your Ma.gnolia bookmarks anywhere on your site. You can set it to only pull ...
WP Plugin: No HTTP: Author Plugin is a tiny plugin that detects if the Username in a comment contains HTTP: and if so it sets the "spam" flag on the comment for further processing by spam plugins. I'm not sure if this is neededbut, if you're being bogged down by ...
Got New Spam Tactic Figured: Be careful of spam comments that have no links but are suspicious. Photomatt is running his blog on 1.5 code without any spam plugins and doing fine (as of last week)