Archive For The “WordPress” Category
I’m a big fan of Twitter. It serves as a useful tool connecting people who might never meet, and also as a vital means of communication for those who work at home or in solitary conditions. The one huge and uncomfortable problem I see with Twitter is, “What happens to the conversation if Twitter fails?” [...]
You may have heard that the official site of the British Prime Minister’s Office at number10.gov.uk launched earlier today. The great news is that it’s running WordPress, but what really excited me is the fact that the site is also using WP Super Cache. The site was initially very slow, but once the cached static [...]
A long sought after feature in WordPress MU is domain mapping. That’s where a blog on a WordPress MU site can be “mapped” to a new domain. WordPress.com has an advanced domain mapping feature that has proved to be very popular with users even though it’s a paid-for upgrade. This domain mapping plugin isn’t quite [...]
Andy has the very exciting news that Gravatar icons will be printed on attendee’s WordCamp San Francisco badges this year! On supporting websites, Gravatars have become a de-facto identity for comment threads and discussions so to carry through the identity to the conference floor is just a logical conclusion. There is one caveat. Gravatars can [...]
Version 2.6 of WordPress MU is now out! WordPress MU is the multi blog version of the popular blogging software WordPress. It’s the engine behind WordPress.com and many other blogging sites. This version of WordPress MU is based on WordPress 2.6. There’s a long and interesting WordPress.org post on the new features in 2.6 so [...]
For WordPress MU only. My latest plugin is the sitewide tags pages plugin. This is the initial release of a plugin that creates a set of pages like the WordPress.com Hot Topics pages. It’s a lot more simplistic, but by feeding posts into one blog it also creates a sitewide feed of all posts plus [...]
The very popular WP Hashcash plugin for WordPress has been modified to work on the WordPress MU signup page. WP Hashcash is an anti spam plugin that protects blogs from comment spam. It does this with Javascript and is quite successful. I worked on it over the last few days and the plugin now offers [...]
Edit: The release candidate is now online. Here’s the forum thread on it. Grab the zip file to test! WordPress MU 2.6 beta 1 is now available. WordPress 2.6 is due for release shortly and it’s already on it’s third beta so it’s times for WordPress MU to be updated. This release has many new [...]
More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic
Donncha O Caoimh | July 3, 2008 | 67 comments
Comment spammers, trackback spam, stupid bots and AVG linkscanner eating into your bandwidth and server resources? Here’s how to put a dent in their activities with a few mod_rewrite rules. I hate those blogs that send me fake trackbacks and pingbacks. Unfortunately it’s impossible to stop but this morning I figured out a way of [...]
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