How to Ensure your Site is Protected by Referrer Bouncer Plugin

May 15th, 2005 I am sharing by Referrer Bouncer Plugin BlackList. This can be used with the Referrer Bouncer plugin by creating a custom referer.txt (if not done already) and adding/merging this list contents.

October 7th, 2005 Name: Angsuman's Referrer Bouncer Version: 1.2 Category: WordPress Plugin Compatibility: WordPress 1.5x and above Overview This is the new version of the popular Referrer Bouncer Plugin for WordPress. It is recommended upgrade for existing users.

June 3rd, 2005 Diatribe against Referrer Karma, a WordPress plugin gone wild.

March 19th, 2005 Overview A Plugin to bounce back referrer spam attempts; requires no upfront configuration, no mod-rewrite. It is like the strong silent bouncer at your favorite club.

May 5th, 2005 Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy.

July 24th, 2006 You can easily and effectively use your .htaccess file to easily and effectively block comment and referrer spammers targeting your blog(s). If you are using WordPress you can also use my Referrer Bouncer plugin, which is much simpler, to block referrer spammers.

February 6th, 2008 Many of us have a distributed work force which often leaves people wondering what others are doing. Twitter is a great service for updating status.

November 17th, 2005 This stupid and nasty spammer - my-pills.be spammed me 918 time in less than 24 hours and all the while repeatedly fetching only my home page! Guess what happens? They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be! After I aggresively started banning the new crop of referer spammers, my bandwidth usage has come down from last month, despite almost 50% increase of traffic! Think how much damage they are doing to everyone.

May 21st, 2005 Today I made some changes to the blog site (using WordPress 1.5) to make the surrounding content (like most discussed articles, related articles etc.) highly context sensitive. Also I made the fonts bigger to improve readability.

January 16th, 2007 I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday.

June 28th, 2005 Contents Overview Background Technical Details Download Installation Configuration and Usage Uninstallation Overview This plugin adds a copyright message to your feed items. No customization is required.

June 2nd, 2005 Update: I am delighted to announce the much awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major world languages - German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

November 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.

May 27th, 2007 One of the main challenges with Translator plugin is not related to the plugin itself but with the delivery mechanism. We rely on email to deliver the plugin to our customers.