My earlier post on reaching 5000 spam comments captured by Akismet raised some interest, as several commenters with blogs of similar ages have suffered more like 30,000 spams and asked what my plugins were.
So, in approximate order of how they intercept spam, here they are:
Bad Behavior: This one stops spam before it reaches the blog, [...]

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Those of you who use the excellent WordPress plugin Bad Behavior, should upgrade to version 2.0.11 straightaway.
This is because the author has recently made some changes to his server which means that BB can get a little ‘over-zealous’ and not only prevent anyone from leaving comments on your blog, but can also prevent you from [...]

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Well for me anyway.
One of the big flaws about WordPress admin, that seems to go unchecked from version to version, is that each admin element requires a separate pageload.  For example, to moderate my Akismet spam list, before going to Better Comments Manager to reply to comments meant:

Clicking on comments=1 pageload.
Click on Akismet=2nd pageload.
If there’s [...]

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As your WordPress blog ages, your archives increase month by month, and begin stretching down your sidebar. A lot of people then remove them, which I find frustrating as a reader, as when I discover a new blog I like to have an easy way to read back through their old posts.
If you’d like to [...]

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If you’ve ever needed to edit your theme files, whether using Blogger, WordPress or any other system you ought to know that you should only use a simple text editor like MS Notepad or Wordpad, instead of a full word processor which can insert extra formatting and ‘break’ the file.
However, these simple text editors can [...]

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I like the little ‘chicklet’ style buttons used to present links within a sidebar or elsewhere, and having had need of creating one recently, I found this simple button maker at Blog Flux:
It’s dead easy to use, just enter your text, alter the colours to suit and hit ‘Generate button’. If you don’t like [...]

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I have been asked by Francesco of Mapelli.info to share with you five of my previous posts that have some merit in re-reading. I have been trawling my archives recently anyway, but hey: Bloggers should never pass up the opportunity to write about themselves!
Seriously, these five posts best show what I’m aiming to do here, [...]

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In the 4th part of this look back through my previous posts, I’ve rummaged through my Quick Tips category to find a selection of easy tweaks for you to better your blog.
One of the things I attempt to do with Blog-Op is to simplify some of the more convoluted instructions you will find for the [...]

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Image: Cyberinsekt
As most of you will no doubt know, you should write post titles to not only attract the attention of human eyes, but also that of search engines.
Using the right keywords or combination of words will often result in a large amount of search traffic, as anyone who’s managed to shoehorn the words [...]

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Do you know what an RSS feed is?
Do you know how to subscribe to one, and why you should bother? If not, read on…..
Very simply, an RSS feed is a means of delivering website content from one site to another, most commonly used to display the contents of many sites in one location, which is [...]

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