Pingback or Trackback?January 24th, 2004 I recently discovered the joys of pingback. It came with the Blog product I use - WP.
Is IP Address Validation of Trackbacks Fraught With Dangers (Large False Positives)?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.
Simple tip for trackback spam prevention on WordPress BlogsFebruary 4th, 2005 A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs. Delete your first post (id 0).
What would be the Features of an Ideal Blog SoftwareJuly 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).
Serious Security Vulnerabilities of WordPress 1.5.1.2 and belowJuly 5th, 2005 WordPress is a very popular personal publishing platform aka blogging platform (with a primitive CMS) in use all over the web. There are a number of serious security vulnerabilities in WordPress that may allow an attacker to ultimately run arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.
PHP XMLRPC Remote Code Execution Vulnerability affecting Popular Blogging and CMS Platforms like WordPress 1.5.1.2 (and lower), PostNuke, Drupal, b2evolution TikiWiki etc.July 5th, 2005 PHPXMLRPC aka XML-RPC For PHP is a PHP implementation of the XML-RPC, web RPC protocol, and was originally developed by Edd Dumbill of Useful Information Company. As of the 1.0 stable release, the project has been opened to wider involvement and moved to SourceForge.
WordPress 2.0 & 1.5.x Hack: How to trim the fat resource hogging Admin DashBoard (Version 2)April 18th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0, 1.5.x
Medical Terms for WordPress Blacklist To Protect You From Most Drug SpamsSeptember 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.
Is there a need to upgrade beyond WordPress 1.5.1.2 in near future?June 20th, 2005 I looked at the proposed feature set summary for WordPress 1.6. Mostly UI changes, few extra plugin hooks etc.
Oh No! Yet Another WordPress Fix to a Fix to a Fix to a FixMay 28th, 2005 WordPress team has come up with yet another security fix (1.5.1.2), which fixes the fix (1.5.1.1), which fixes the fix (1.5.1), which is a fix for undisclosed security defects in WordPress 1.5. Update: Now it should read: WordPress team has come up with yet another security fix (1.5.1.3) which fixes the (yet another undisclosed security risk) fix(1.5.1.2), which fixes the fix (1.5.1.1), which fixes the fix (1.5.1), which is a fix for undisclosed security defects in WordPress 1.5.
List of WordPress 2.x Rewrite Rules & Usage NotesAugust 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.
How to keep your WordPress 1.5 Blog Spam FreeMay 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.
Comment Guard Plugin Updated with New FeaturesAugust 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.
Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No SirSeptember 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.
WordPress 2.0/1.5.x Hack: How to trim the fat resource hogging Admin DashBoardMarch 19th, 2005 Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 2.0/1.5.x
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June 14th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Where did you make this “increase to 5-minute” change?
June 14th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
I made a simple plugin to do it.
I thought about publishing it, but didn’t think there would be much demand as it will be useful only to Power Users with large weblog Ping list.
What do you think?
June 15th, 2005 at 3:03 am
I’ve never thought of myself as a power user, but it never seemed smart to limit oneself to a single ping service, even if that service claimed to re-ping other services. I’ve certainly experienced timeout issues when publishing a post.
My user experience of a hang during the publish operation suggests there is a problem there to be solved, but what the precise problem is, is a mystery to me. A plug-in that increases any short timeout that exists seems like it might be quite useful.