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 […]
Tag: spam
WP-BlackCheck goes WP.org
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 […]
Together we’re stronger
I was fed up with the comment spam again as it’s me who has to check the akismet queue for false positives. So I have started preventing spam by doing various checks before handing the comment over to akismet – but it’s always a couple of them slipping through. The good thing was, that it’s always the same […]
Spam Attack
The start of the new year was quite a bad one: 931 comments are waiting for moderation. Quite much if you’d ask me. Having a closer look it wasn’t the bikers gang fighting a flamewar on one of Grazer’s postings – that would be too nice to be true. Instead of a biker clan it was a bunch […]
JSSpamBlock 2.1?
You might remember my ranting about the JSSpamBlock plugin of Paul Butler, thinking of porting it to the actual WP release. I have decided to keep an eye on it fixing various bugs for keeping it compatible. JSSpamBlock extends the comment form with a simple input field for checking if you’re human or not. As this function uses […]
JSSpamBlock is (really) dead now?
After Paul Butler’s Announcement of the end of JSSpamBlock maintenance, I was not really worried about the plugin itself, as it still did its job in a perfect way. If you think back, there are enough unmaintained plugins around, doing their job perfectly within a current WordPress installation. But you know about theory and reality by now, because […]