Posts Tagged “WordPress”
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 [...]
My previous post about hacked WordPress sites caused Donnacha to ask, After your last post on this subject, I was thinking that it would be a good idea for Automattic to create a plugin that carries out all the checks you suggested people do to find out if they’ve been hacked… At the time I [...]
A week ago I suggested installing AIDE to track changes on your server in case it had been hacked. I think AIDE Is so useful that it deserves a post of it’s own. Here’s a short guide to get it working properly. The AIDE .deb package includes configuration files for over 80 different software packages [...]
Remember a few weeks ago there was all that noise about WordPress blogs getting hacked? Remember how everyone was urged to upgrade their blogs. You did upgrade didn’t you? No? It was inevitable that you’d be hacked. If you haven’t been hacked yet, it’s only a matter of time. Unfortunately for some who did upgrade, [...]
I realised I haven’t updated in a week, yet I have. I’m Donncha on the following social webs: WordPress.com – Yay, the best blogging site, of course. Twitter.com – everyone’s on there, and so am I. Jaiku.com – oh so exclusive membership. Love the threaded comments. Friendfeed – everything gathered here. Plurk – the new [...]
Ah yes, them were the days when we had to type blog posts on quaint old keyboards. Can you imagine it? You actually had to write everything letter by letter. Today’s thought entry systems are so much more convenient don’t you think? That there Matt fella is still the youngster he always was. He may [...]
This was a nice surprise. While enjoying a lovely meal in the Castle Hotel in Blarney a courier rang me with a package. I wasn’t expecting anything but luckily he was close by and I met him in front of the local Garda station. Brimming with excitement I ripped open the package sending stickers and [...]
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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