WordPress comments
I just received an email from Brian Duff, as he couldn’t comment on my blog. I had turned commenting off during my vacation, as i was getting some serious comment spam. 3500 comments in 1 week. I get a notification for every comment in my mailbox, but the webmail i’m using is not usable when it contains 3500 mails. So thanks to all the weblog comment spam, i couldn’t use my email anymore.
What’s weird though, is that i still received some comment spam, eventhough i disabled commenting.
Anyway, i just re-enabled the commenting, let’s see how long i can stand the spam.
16 Dec 2004 |
December 16th, 2004 at 11:46 pm
Does wordpress have a keyword blacklist plugin? We’re running MT-blacklist for Movable type on several of the orablogs blogs. It doesn’t totally elliminate comment spam, but it does a great job of reducing it.
December 17th, 2004 at 1:42 am
Actually, there’s several blacklist/spam plugins:
http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/
And there’s a port of the MT-blacklist plugin, although I don’t have the URL off hand. The ones I get a ton of though are the p ok er ones (spacing to hopefully skip any spam blockers). I received a ton of those, but the spamminator one blocked it. There’s also some discussion of modifying the wp-comments page, in that you’d add some options in there to disable comments that don’t come from the main page, as well as timing delays and some other settings. Check the wordpress developer archives – there’s a TON of discussion about this. And, there’s always the “type what you see in this picture” option. Not very useful for the disabled, but still pretty effective.
December 17th, 2004 at 3:56 am
After a similiarly bad bout of comment spam, I went with the authimage plugin, and it has been 100% effective. (Clearly, some kind of allowance will have to be made for the visually impaired, but the plugin also generates a phonetic representation.)
December 20th, 2004 at 7:13 am
Trying to comment on the JDev postings, however they seem closed so I’m using this one.
You say: “For hand coding java Eclipse used to be a lot more productive than Jdeveloper, thanks to it’s extensive support for refactoring and quick fixes. Jdeveloper now has better support for both.”
I’m curious finding out, which aspects JDeveloper has surpassed Eclipse in light of refactoring and quick fixes.
December 20th, 2004 at 7:34 am
I knew someone was going to ask this question…
What i meant was that jdeveloper now has better support than before, not better than eclipse. It might be better (than eclipse), or it might not, i haven’t actually checked all the different quick fix and refactoring features in both.
What i can say is that jdeveloper now seems to have all the quick fixes and refactorings that i most use, so i’m happy.