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3 Spam – blocking Tips

Some examples from my online week: trackback on this site for "international calling cards" 88 spam comments this week (I only posted twice) including some sneaky ones, like "I hadn't heard of this before!  I will be back for sure!" from "00211234@gmail.com" went to a website yesterday that told me I had a "virus" and had a pop up window that I could NOT close except for closing down the … [Read more...]

WordPress 2.7 Takes Care of Comments

Image by premasagar via Flickr There are a lot of plugins out there to help with the old commenting function in WordPress.  We had all manor of ajax plugins, and nested comments plugins, plus the email-the-user and subscribe-to-thread plugins.  Here is a list of the functionality that is now INCLUDED with WordPress 2.7.x. Ajax loading of reply-to-comment form ability to respond to individual … [Read more...]

Are you publishing a political post?

And perhaps you want the comments closed?  I wouldn't blame you. If you scroll down in your write>post screen there is a section called "Advanced Options".  This is for you! Let's go through them: Excerpt: This will override other excerpts of this post on the archives or category pages.  Click on the arrow and insert the excerpt that you like the best into this window. Trackbacks:  From … [Read more...]

Finding and Using a Gravatar

Is your theme gravatar-enabled?  If it is, you'll see a small image in each comment. Gravatars are images that represent your online presence anywhere on the internet.  Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars. With WP 2.6 we can now include a default image that matches your site instead of the little grey head.  We can set the size of the gravatar and placement within the comments.  How … [Read more...]