I guess I shouldn’t have been in such a big hurry to post about WPBlacklist 2.01 in the previous post because 2.5 is ready and has been just released :p The new release adds automatic deletion of comments marked as spam and allows you to select which items are automatically deleted. Not only that, if you select the option, the new plugin will also e-mail you with full details of the automatically deleted comments. A full description of the new features can be read in this blog entry and you can download the new release from here. If you install the new release, be sure to read the included readme.txt file to find out how to upgrade or at least run the Installer link under the plugin description on the Plugins tab of your WP control panel after you install the plugin. The installer has to be run even for […]
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The recently released WPBlacklist 2.0 version had a few bugs which made the plugin work quirkily or worse yet, present the user with a stream of error messages when they tried to post a comment after certain URLs had been harvested by the new mass-deletion facility. So, I’ve released WPBlacklist 2.01 to fix these problems. You can download it from here. In the meantime, I’m working on WPBlacklist 2.5 which will allow auto-deletion of spam comments and an e-mail notification facility for comments which are automatically deleted. Hopefully, I should be able to release 2.5 in a day or two 🙂
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[Continue Reading...]MessageCast, Inc. has a product called LiveMessage Blogger Edition which provides new post alerts for blogs (among other things). The full range of services is listed on their website but the free blogger Alerts allows counting of clickthroughs generated via LiveMessage and ease of setup. The basic utility of LiveMessage is to have the ability to route messages (alerts of any kind) to customers’ messaging devices by intelligently detecting the preferred (and active) mobile device to send the message to (thus eliminating Spam etc.). Consider this another way to distribute blog updates for your readers and in the process, pick up a bunch of new visitors to your blog. [EDIT] Here is the link to get MessageCast for this blog
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