When I moved to the new design, I switched the “popular posts” plugin to the much more feature rich plugin “Popularity Contest” by Alex King. I really like the plugin and the features that it added. I like that I can weight the different aspects of the posts popularity. If I think that Comments are [...]
A little over a week ago I wrote that I had passed over the 100k mark on spam caught by Akismet. Shortly thereafter, Sarah of Stuff by Sarah pinged that post with a post of her own about some of the tactics that she uses to fight spam.
I made 3 major changes to the [...]
I’ve had my ups and downs with Akismet, but I gotta admit that after catching over 100,000 spams for me, I can’t seem to part with it. Sure, it catches a few that it shouldn’t from time to time. And sometimes I don’t check my spam queue as thoroughly as I perhaps should. But in [...]
