Posts Tagged ‘spam’

Don’t Let Your CommentLuv Be Stolen Away!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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. (more…)

FeedEntryHeader In Action (On A Splog)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

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. (more…)

WordPress Plugin - Simple Spam Filter Hack Available

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

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. (more…)

No NoFollow - Welcome Spam

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Well, I can’t say I wasn’t warned about disabling NoFollow. I have just started to be hit by spam: one comment about every 5 minutes for the last 4 hours. That adds up quickly! (more…)

WordPress - NoFollow - I’m Now Following

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

In my last post, Should I Follow?, I decided that I would disable the nofollow tag. I’ve now done this and have joined the Bumpzee No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community.

In the end, I opted for the Dofollow (WP Plugin) as listed on Andy Beard’s review (Note, this is not the original DoFollow plugin). (more…)

WordPress - NoFollow - Should I Follow?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

About a month ago, I learnt what the nofollow tag on links in my blog meant. Very quickly, I became aware of the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community and the existence of plugins to remove the nofollow tag. The question is: should I follow suite and get a plugin? (more…)

This is just a link to a project for my students. Please ignore.

WordPress Plugins by Stephen Cronin
DualFeeds: Offer both full text & summary feeds. Let your readers choose!
IFrameWidgets: Stop slow javascript widgets breaking your page layout!
FeedEntryHeader: Add a copyright statement to the TOP of your feed!
LocalCurrency: Show currency values to readers in their own currency!
KeywordLuv: Reward your commentators with keyword rich anchor text!