All comments get nuked by Blackhole option on blocking open proxy lists in WordPress 1.5 (Strayhorn)

March 17th, 2005 What happened After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded.

March 17th, 2005 Feel free to use this blacklist for your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area.

May 30th, 2006 I made a small change in commenting policy. I am experimentally blocking comments from "open and insecure proxies".

November 15th, 2006 I am going on a business trip to USA, tentatively on 24th of November. I will be around Carlsbad, California.

August 25th, 2006 Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL's.

June 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

August 21st, 2005 When FireFox is used through AnalogX Proxy (a popular free proxy server) a strange error persistently happens if you have too many browser windows open. All of your requests get strangely redirected to the last opened site.

July 5th, 2005 All the comment spam plugins of the world do not protect you against spams which are written by humans. No amount of comment spam prevention plugins or .htaccess tricks protect you against them.

March 27th, 2008 You need to use shorewall, which in my experience is a highly capable and flexible firewall as well as Squid proxy to use this solution.

December 4th, 2008 Wordpress Notifier is a freeware application that alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on your Wordpress blog. I have seen successful admins from internationally popular blogs and believe me its some time too hectic to refresh the page every minute so that you don't miss out on an imporntant comment.

November 29th, 2007 I have added a plugin to allow you to subscribe to comments on my blog and track it in real-time with email. Subscribe to blog comments plugin ( link ) allows you to follow the discussion on articles you like without having to check my blog every time.

November 21st, 2005 WordPress.com has finally opened for free signup by everyone. You no longer have to be a privileged invitee or a Flock user or use my hack to get an invotation.

June 1st, 2006 The new features / fixes are: Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix Bugtraq reported issue & backporting of security enhancements from 2.1 (nonces) Misc. fixes etc....

January 18th, 2007 Yesterday I talked about developing a comment spam prevention plugin with zero false positives. I am currently using it on all of our blogs.