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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Trackback SpamSometimes I wonder if these plugins actually attract spam.
I have heard it mentioned somewhere on this forum that spammers seems to be more attracted to blogs proudly displaying some sort of identification messages – like x amount of spam eaten by so-and-so spam buster plugin. This makes sense as it helps them to target these blogs and spend resource to find ways to intrude through these plugins.As, some of you know, I use neither Spam karma nor Bad Behavior, which are heavyweights in this arena.
I use a simple system with referrer bouncer plugin and Hashcash plugin along with inbuilt WordPress spam prevention capabilities. Both of the plugins mentioned above work silently and do not leave a tell-tale signature behind unlike their heavyweight counterparts.
I am 100% spam free in the last 5-6 months. No need for manual spam moderation either.
And I used to receive at one point over 600 spams a day.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Content gone but still in the databaseCheck if the same url which gives you no post found in firefox, when cut-n-pasted to safari, also exhibits the same/different behavior on safari.
BTW: I too use Firefox but on Windows 2000 which is, as you guessed, fine.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: can i backup the archives folder?Specifically you just need to backup the wp-posts table in your mysql database. As podz said, everything is database driven (except the themes and plugins).
You can use the instructions to backup your mysql database tables.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Using BlogJet, posts gets scheduledAre you and your web server in the same timezone?
How far ahead BlogJet is setting the time to be?
Under Options/General there is:
Times in the weblog should differ by:
This is the value you need to adjust to solve your issue.Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: How to pretify our Feed?Some people like to click on their feed links. Making feeds pretty is for their amusement. It is not for you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Help with Semiologic, site unusable!!!Download your theme files and delete all references to sem_recent_comments() using ftp. Then upload them back. Repeat if necessary with other functions if necessary.
I think you are still using the semiologic theme which expects the plugins to operate. The best place for asking about semiologic is Dennis’ website with his paid support option.
You should have first changed the theme and then deactivated the plugins.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: upgrade 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.3Wonderful!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to insert a copyright statement on each post?@techgnome
Not having a copyright notice doesn’t mean you don’t have copyright on your content. By Berne convention[ http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html ] you still do irrespective of whether the notice is there or not.
So anyway you are protected.Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Dashboard Too SLOWPersonally I think it is a bad design to include feeds in the Dashboard which was the reason for the dasboard hack kindly mentioned by MacManX above.
Feeds are to be consumed by a feed reader. If people are interested then they should subscribe. Push model rarely works, think marimba.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: upgrade 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.3Yes. In fact I provide a patch for 1.5.1.2 to 1.5.1.3 containing just the changed files for exactly this type of upgrade.
There are no schema changes from 1.5.1.2 to 1.5.1.3. However I do not know about the changes from 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.2. If there is no schema changes there then you don’t even need to run the upgrade script.
And after you are done maybe you want to create a patch, like mine above, to enable upgrade from 1.5.1 to 1.5.1.3 to help others like you.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Slow access to wp-adminYou can use my Dashboard hack to super speed your Dashboard. It improves unpon the Dashboard functionality but excludes the RSS feeds which slows down your Dashboard considerably.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Auto-post plugin?Pre written articles in electronic form.
Why am I getting a strange feeling about its contents.
Did you purchase them?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange trackbacks from Yahoowaxy.org has posted about it too.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blogwidow is pretending it’s publishing your blogDo close it. I don’t think I can close it myself.
I have posted the issue on webmaster forum http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/7932-1-10.htm
It may be a better place to address this issue.
For anyone wishing to block access to your site from framed pages, you can add this to your .htaccess file:
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer blogwidow.com spammer=yes
deny from env=spammerYou can now test that my site http://blog.taragana.com/ is inaccessible from blogwidow frames.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blogwidow is pretending it’s publishing your blog@ryanduff
Drop your stupid juvenile phrases. Grow up. You simply don’t have the intelligence to understand this, so move on.@others
For the rest try this on Google:
site:http://www.blogwidow.com/ “view.cgi”These sites show up in search results (for those who care) instead of or in addition to your sites. This is the crux of the problem.
For example:
site:http://www.blogwidow.com/ “view.cgi” whitehouseCurrently I am returning 403 when my site is accessed from Google.