Pingback or Trackback?

June 12th, 2005 I was unable to send trackbacks and pingbacks after I tested with WordPress 1.5.1.2. I found the solution yesterday.

July 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?) Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols Multi-blog-multi-author SERP optimized Update: Blogging with: WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).

February 5th, 2008 There is a trackback validator plugin which checks if the IP address of the trackbacking server is the same as the URL it is trackbacking for. Is this a valid check or will this result in losing many genuine trackbacks? This policy in general will work only when you are directly using the authoring interface of the blogging software like WordPress.

September 28th, 2007 Just copy-n-paste the following word list to Comment Blacklist section in Options->Discussion (in WordPress administration) for protection against the most common types of medical / drug related comment spams. The list was derived by analyzing hundreds of thousands of spams.

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.

December 20th, 2007 Akismet continues to get in spams approved these days while sometimes rejecting valid comments on my blog. To give you a small sample, here are some of the comments which passed through Akismet plugin today - Note: Adult stuff ahead...

December 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).

June 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...

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.

August 29th, 2007 We have the Comment Guard plugin on all of our blogs with the latest version. Comment Guard is our fool-proof solution to eliminate comment spam from automated bots, which constitute over 90% of comments.

August 26th, 2006 Comprehensive List of WordPress 2.x Rewrite Rules: Note 1: The built-in rules are provided to guide you in writing your own fancy rules. Note 2: In case you are wondering anything before and including the '?' is ignored in match.

November 22nd, 2008 While writing an article about the best security plugins of Wordpress, I felt the need to touch another very important security issue for the bloggers, and i.e. Anti Spam Plugins.

April 18th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0, 1.5.x

March 19th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0/1.5.x

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.