Monday, 28 May 2007

Another spam protection for WordPress

May 28th, 2007

Despite the fact this blog has not so many visitors, spam-protect plugin (akismet) catch 50-70 spam-commends daily. Most of them contain something like [url=http://jxfbvjhdfv.com]. Since wordpress don’t understand bbcode I consider a good practice to delete such comments. But there is no reason to blacklist these “words” using wordpress due to blacklisted comments will be marked as spam instead deleting.

Here is my solution. I think it is quite good and have one important advantage: spam processed before putting to MySQL thereby reduced CPU load.
I add this kode to askimet.php, but you free to put in any suitable place :)
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Thursday, 29 March 2007

Wordpress: I dislike upgrades

March 29th, 2007

Regardless new bug found in WordPress, I dislike upgrade for this once. My solution: Read the rest of this entry »

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Sunday, 25 March 2007

Wordpress and spam

March 25th, 2007

I disclose Wordpress shows waiting for moderation comments to their autor. It shows regardless these comments are not approved yet. Spam-robots consider this behaviour like successful attempt to post a spam. On the one hand this feature is user-friendly, but on the other hand I think this is not very important.
So, I to tear up by the roots this capability.
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