WordPress Plugin: Angsuman's Referrer BouncerOctober 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.
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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).
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They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be!
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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.
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May 17th, 2005 at 4:31 am
Would be sweet if the plugin could subscribe to your (or a) master list, without overwriting personal additions.
May 17th, 2005 at 4:54 am
@BillSaysThis
I have been thinking about it too.
I will start working on it soon.
May 17th, 2005 at 8:21 am
Cool, drop me an email and I can beta test. We’re both on the Sun Alumni list so you should have my contact info.
July 3rd, 2005 at 8:28 pm
b2evolution has a universal masterlist set up for comment spam. Is there any way for WP to have such a system, or to somehow hook in to that list (I maintain a b2 blog for a organization). Thanks for all your useful WP info.
July 3rd, 2005 at 11:40 pm
I haven’t got around to doing this yet. Maybe you can volunteer?
July 23rd, 2005 at 10:33 am
Just so you know, here’s my live listing;
http://jult.net/txt/blocks.txt
It’s active serverwide on some important servers.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Please excuse me for a newbie question, but do I just copy the list of addresses and paste it into the referrer.txt file? I have the plugin installed and didn’t know that I needed to do something else.
Is it that simple? Or do I need to do anything else?
Thanks!
January 1st, 2007 at 11:27 am
Go to plugin console (where you activate / deactivate any plugin) and look for the description of Referrer Bouncer plugin. There you will find all the links you need. It is very easy to modify, one referrer per line. Please read the documentation for details.