August 26th, 2010 by Stargazer
WP-BlackCheck Update
As WordPress changed a few details in their API, I updated the WP-BlackCheck Plugin to reflect those. The current Version is now 1.5 which is available on wordpress.org
Tags: blog, plugin, spam, wordpress, wp-blackcheck
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Offline tools for blogging?
May 17th, 2010 by Stargazer
You know, I love blogging – even if I didn’t post much during the last days as I was on the road quite much. To be able to blog offline, people invented various editors like the Live-Writer which works great – as long as you don’t blog in multiple languages. Do you know a tool that works with Qtranslate without messing up the whole postings?
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Facebook vs StarBlog
May 14th, 2010 by Stargazer
You might have noticed that I am hanging around on Facebook, where I also published the RSS feed of this blog – mainly to extend the range of my posts. Sounds great, but you know what’s been said about theory and things in practical. On facebook people can comment my postings too which tears up the discussion.
After some time of searching through code and plugins I stumbled across a plugin that imports those facebook comments back to the blog. I hope this solves that loose comment problem. It’s now active and we’ll see if it works as expected…
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Is WP-Blackcheck effective?
January 27th, 2010 by Stargazer
That was the basic question of the research I did during the last days, greping through the logs to find some info to get an impression of the blacklists effect. Now I know, it isn’t in vain. If we’d say we have 10000 requests we would get about:
- 9000 Spam Comments
- 1000 Ham Comments
- 100 Reports
Tags: blog, spam, wp-blackcheck
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The blacklist again…
August 12th, 2009 by Stargazer
It is wonderful if you know that a plan is working – especially if it’s your own one. Regarding the WP-Blackcheck plugin, it might even fot more here as I was observing less and less spam comments into the moderation queues of the sites I manage. To get some numbers I tried to deactivate a number of other anti spam plug ins and compared the numbers.
Tags: blog, plugin, spam, wordpress, wp-blackcheck
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WP-Blackcheck – Statusreport
June 25th, 2009 by Stargazer
My Blacklist service is running for quite a while now and it it’s time to look at the result. Sure, it isn’t much as not many people provided feedback by reporting the IPs, but for now we have collected about 60 IP Addresses and the blogs hosted on my server haven’t had any spam in their queue except for mine, which gets tortured by the spam kids – but they don’t know that they’re doing me a favor doing so as they’re exposing their spam hosts…
Tags: blog, plugin, spam, wordpress, wp-blackcheck
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WP-BlackCheck goes WP.org
June 8th, 2009 by Stargazer
During the last days I have sent out some preview versions of my plugin and got some feedback about the plugin which helped me getting things done. Due to the positive echo of various people, I am now posting it on wordpress.org. But I think it’s time now to tell you some of my ideas about the plugin and why I wrote it.
Tags: blog, plugin, spam, wordpress, wp-blackcheck
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