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Dec 8, 2010

Spam for Christmas, Anyone?

I have been having a sudden influx of spam making it onto my blog posts, so I am temporarily activating the comment moderation feature. I will approve comments as quickly as I can, and I will make sure that anyone who enters the Hallmark giveaway today isn’t penalized by this action.

This is the first time I have seen Akismet not doing its job. Has anyone else had problems with it? And do you have any recommendations for alternatives?

Thanks, all!

UPDATED: I’m not sure how this happened, possibly during the last WordPress upgrade, but somehow the Akismet plugin had been deactivated on my blog. So that explains the spam going into the regular comment flow.

I do still find a lot of spam that is caught but must be checked through just in case, so I have installed a word verification plugin which doesn’t look too tricky and changed the moderation settings so I should only have to approve each commenter one time before they automatically get published.

I appreciate everyone’s patience as I get this figured out!



Sep 20, 2008

Addicted to Plugins

I am certainly having a lot of fun exploring the world of plugins since I switched my blog over to WordPress! One of the things I missed from Blogger was that my blogroll listed the blogs in order of their most recent post, but then I found LinkedList.

It lets me choose how many blogs and how much information to show for each blog (I have mine set to 25). The only thing I miss is the “Show All” link that allows someone to see your entire blogroll even if you only have a lesser number visible on your page. And it puts all of your links into one group even if you have them in different link categories.

What are your favorite plugins?