Category Archives: WordPress
From 400 Spam Comments to Under 20 A Day
As a Wordpress lover, I also fight my share of Spam. When I was able to drop my daily comment spam rate from over 400 comment spam a day to less than 30 a day, I was ecstatic!
Although Akismet does its job by seperating the Spam Comments from the Non Spam comments, I still had to go [...]
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Tagged Akismet, blog, Lester Chan, Plugins, Project Honeypot, Stuart Ryan, WordPress, WP-Ban Plugin, WP-HoneyPot
WordPress: Using the_excerpt as the Description
As I have noted on other posts (see the Googlebot Meta Tags post), the description element is another part of HTML that has uses with search engines. Well designed websites use the description element not only for keywords and a simple description of the page, but also it can control how the page shows up in [...]
Tagged blog, description, element, head, header, meta, the_excerpt, Word Press, WordPress, WP
WP 2.7 Changes and Comments Improvements
With the release of the upcoming WordPress 2.7, we will finally get to see some changes that are made in the comments section. It has been forever.. at least over a year if any – since there have been changes to the comments section of WordPress. Now, with this welcomed changes, we will also see [...]