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Version 1.12 Of Comment Warning Released

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:19:09 +0000

I’ve released version 1.12 of Comment Warning overnight. It only contains a small, non critical, change – it now counts how many comments have been made from each IP address in the Log. … [visit site to read more]

New WordPress Plugin To Deter Comment Spam

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:02:53 +0000

Late last week, I quietly released my new WordPress plugin, Comment Warning. Over the weekend, I added some extra functionality and it’s now reached the point where I’m ready to announce it to the world. … [visit site to read more]

Subscribe To Comments & Protected Wp-admin Folder

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:03:10 +0000

Earlier today I received an email from an irate commentator, accusing me of spamming him and threatening to report me. He was receiving emails from my blog, via the Subscribe To Comments plugin, but he thought couldn’t unsubscribe. The cause: my wp-admin folder is password protected.

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Bye Bye DoFollow (The NoFollow Saga)

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:24:28 +0000

I implemented a DoFollow plugin back in August 2007 and it served me well for a couple of years, leading to an increase in traffic. However, in May 2009, the level of comment spam on this blog led to me disabling it. This is a consolidation of four posts covering that span.

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Spammed By A Master (Of Making Money Online)

Stephen Cronin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:19:05 +0000

One side-effect of making your blog DoFollow is an increase in traffic. Unfortunately, it also leads to an increase in comment spam – and I’ve recently been spammed by Make Money Online Master. … [visit site to read more]

BullGuard – What A Load Of Bull!

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:45:35 +0000

In my last post I wrote about comment spam. Today, I’m writing about BullGuard, the anti-virus / spam software. Unfortunately, I’m not writing about BullGuard because of their software – I’m writing about them because one of my relatives lost their money when he tried to renew his subscription. … [visit site to read more]

Borderline Spammers Beware – Use KeywordLuv!

Stephen Cronin — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:41:15 +0000

This is just a quick post to warn the borderline spammers that leave comments here: If you just leave keywords in the name field, I’ll remove the link! You must use the KeywordLuv syntax: yourname@your keywords. … [visit site to read more]

Don’t Let Your CommentLuv Be Stolen Away!

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:50:49 +0000

Many WordPress blogs are adopting the CommentLuv plugin, because it gives readers extra incentive to make a comment – it automatically adds a link to the commentator’s latest post at the end of their comment.

This is great for the commentator, for several reasons outlined below. However, some people are not taking full advantage of the benefits. … [visit site to read more]

FeedEntryHeader In Action (On A Splog)

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:10 +0000

As a followup to my announcement of the new FeedEntryHeader plugin, I thought I’d share a screenshot of it in action. Predictably, the announcement post was scraped within minutes of me publishing it. Here is what the output looks like on the splog. … [visit site to read more]

WordPress Plugin – Simple Spam Filter Hack Available

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:50:10 +0000

Recently RT from Untwisted Vortex threw down a WordPress Plugin Rewrite Challenge, asking whether I’d rewrite the Simple Spam Filter plugin from Joe Tan. RT is a fan of Simple Spam Filter but felt that some additional checks would result in more spam being caught. … [visit site to read more]