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Re: Various Things = Paying Way More Attention To Comments

Roland — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:22:40 -0000

I have rewritten a small hack for wp-trackback.php. If you like you can read about on my blog.

Re: Various Things = Paying Way More Attention To Comments

Roland — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:45:48 -0000

If you get too much mails from your blog please comment-out the two wp_mail() calles like this:

//wp_mail([...]);

Re: Blog Comment Spam - A Sign of Popularity?

Roland — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:11:37 -0000

Hi David,

thank you for recommending my CPR plugin. :) It's good see that "the word about comment spam" spreads around the blogsphaere and that more blogger are telling other people to care about it.

Yeah, many does not care. They even don't know the background why they shall install spam-fighting plugins.

Best regards,
Roland

Re: Added Two New Plugins To Increase WordPress Spam Protection

Roland — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:43:48 -0000

I have found a german post about this math-plugin. He found out that a spammer can very easy find out a hash and the matching result. So please add a "secret key" to your wp-config.php when not already done:

define('WP_SECRET', "wordpress-xxxxxxxx");

By xxxxx is something random typed by your finger-random-generator... ;-) And do never every expose this to public. :) Now you just need to add this to the plug-in code where it generates the code and where it compares it with the hidden one from the form.

If you like, add this code to the hashing parts as well:

filemtime(__FILE__).":".filemtime(ABSPATH . "wp-config.php");

This shall add more entropy to the hash. Finally add - when your blog support his - the number of views or reads of the current post plus title. This is much more secure against "guessing" the current hash.

Re: Useful WordPress Tweaks And Plugins

Roland — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:11:35 -0000

Me, too. Plus BB2, Akismet4SK2 and CPR. :)

Re: Useful WordPress Tweaks And Plugins

Roland — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:48:18 -0000

SK2 has never killed an email here. :) And it's permanently learning from it. Maybe you have used a buggy version? I have 2.2-FINAL here and works like a charm.

Re: Added Two New Plugins To Increase WordPress Spam Protection

Roland — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:47:40 -0000

On my blog I have now answered someone what to do next after you have created your key WP_SECRET in your wp-config.php script. Please have a look on it.

Re: Added Two New Plugins To Increase WordPress Spam Protection

Roland — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:48:53 -0000

Oh, and sorry for my bad english. :/

Re: Ultimate Wordpress Site Speed – Install WP-Cache2 AND APC At The Same Time

Roland — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:50:52 -0000

I had this problem here:

# pecl install apc
downloading APC-3.0.14.tgz ...
Starting to download APC-3.0.14.tgz (108,511 bytes)
.........................done: 108,511 bytes
40 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
ERROR: `phpize' failed

Well, I have solved it and just want to show it to you: (you may need to alter some paths!)


cd /tmp/pear/cache/APC-3.0.14/
./configure --with-apxs # (please read the INSTALL file why I use this here)
make all install

Now you need to add some entries as described in the INSTALL file to your php.ini(s).

Greetings,
Q