Google just made the Google Friend Connect API available to developers. What made this interesting was that it would make it easier for site admins/developers to integrate Friend Connect into existing login systems. As a Wordpress user, I was excited to see that there was a plugin for my blogging platform of choice. An added bonus [...]
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I decided to join the Do Follow movement, which is… the opposite of the No Follow movement. The nofollow attribute was intended to discourage comment spammers by telling search engines not to trust links posted by visitors in blogs and forums. However, the spam problem has not gotten any better. Despite the relentless efforts by spammers [...] After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my Wordpress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant. Cons to using or switching to pretty urls I like the flexibility [...] |
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Fighting Comment Spam with Bad Behavior, Akismet, Spam Karma
I’ve been using Akismet since I started using Wordpress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]