Will Taft
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recent explsion of porn spamAfter a day and 1/2, so far so good. It has caught the only two spam trackbacks to come in. It has a nice logging feature that gives you a little more info and states the reason it was determined to be spam.
Thanks again!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recent explsion of porn spamThank you very much, Otto. I just installed it and will report back how it works for me.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Akismet ProblemFigured this out and it is not an Akismet problem but a WordPress one or A top Commentators plugin problem, depending on how you look at it.
The name that is displayed in WordPress when a person leaves a comment is not controlled in any way. I suppose registering might help, but I don’t think the display name of a registered user has to be unique.
What happens with the “Show Top Commentators” plugin is this. If “Bob” is in my Top Commentator list, the url for Bob is always the last url he used when posting a comment. This is the way STC works. A user does not have to have a unique name to post a comment in WordPress. The problem arises when “Bob” is in the top commentators list and then another Bob, spammer or legit does not matter, posts a comment. STC thinks the Bob that just posted the comment is the same Bob in the STC list and changes the outgoing link in the STC list to the link of the new Bob. So now the first Bob is on the STC list, but with a link to the second Bob’s url.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving email notification of new commentsOK Those are good question in that other thread. I’ll recommend that the two people I refer to post their answers there. It is good to systematically address issues like these.
I know if everything was working on my site and I upgraded and something stopped working, I would blame the upgrade, plain and simple. Sometimes, however, it is not as simple as it seems.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving email notification of new commentsI am no expert here, just stating the experience of both of the people that I know who have upgraded to 2.3.3. Given the small changes, it seems strange to me that it would happen, but who knows.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving email notification of new commentsI know two people personally who have upgraded to 2.3.3. Both of them stopped receiving notifications of new comments.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Akismet ProblemReceived the following from the author of the TC plugin. So this should be resolved soon.
Yes, its definitely a bug in top commentators, not askimet. There’s a few bugs that need to be fixed, so check the site for an update soon.
Thanks for letting me know.
NateForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing all in one SEO PackYes always unzip the file locally before you FPT the resulting file folder or php file, depending on the instructions for the specific plugin. In windows explorer to unzip you can either right click the file or if you use firefox, opening a zip file right from the download manager should unzip it.
The author of the AIOSEO plugin is one of the nicest and most helpful of people you will find in the plugin world. You can always ask for help there and get it right away. He also must have the record for the most frequently improved and updated plugin!
Post a comment asking for help here:
http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Akismet ProblemWell I figured this out and it is weird. Hopefully upgrading to 2.3.3 will fix this, but I am not so sure. Plan to so that this week, so it may be a mute point, but here is what happens just in case anyone else runs into it.
A spammer tries to put a comment on a post and Akismet catches it. The spammer’s name, let’s say “Tom”, (Bad Tom), is the same as the last legitimate person to comment on the post, “Tom”,(Good Tom), AND that legitimate commentator is listed in the Top Commentators plugin list.
What happens is the link in the top commentator list changes to the spammers link until I delete the spam comment from Akismet. Then the “Good Tom” in the Top Commentators list goes back to what it should be. None of Good Tom’s other links on my site go bad, only the one in the TC plugin list.
Don’t know much about this stuff, but I am guessing the bug is with the TC plugin and not Akismet?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Akismet ProblemIt has not happened since that I have seen. I now check all my Top Commentator Links before I delete Akismet spam, but I have not seen it happen again. I worry about it, but I am so glad I caught it before someone else clicked on it!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Weird Akismet ProblemNone of these are newly installed, but here is the list.
Besides Akismet:AIOSEO
Dagon Design Form Mailer
Dean’s Permalinks Migration
DoFollow
Feedburner Feed Replacement
Full Text Feed
KG Archives
Random Posts
runPHP
Search Docs
ShareThis Classic
Show Top Commentators
Simple Tags
SRG Clean Archives
Subscribe To Comments
wp-numly
WP-phpMyAdmin
WP AJAX Edit CommentsForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Get Moderation email, but mod Que is empty?cimddwc – I never did figure this out and guess no one here has any idea. I went a couple of weeks without getting one, then got 2 more. I just ignore them and they don’t seem to be a problem. I have searched the forums again and find no answer as to what they are, so it must be something unique to only a few of us.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange Feed ProblemMaybe it is the cause with yours. I fixed mine and now it seems to work. I had some code issues that it took me a while to figure out. Unrelated to converted urls.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: View comments by user?I just use phpmyadmin if I ever need to view all comments sorted by users or any number of other ways. There might be a plugin, but WP gets so heavy with plugins after a while that I try to limit them to things I can’t do easily other ways.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange Feed ProblemI know for sure now that my feed is discoverable using a feed reader on post generated pages like: http://willtaft.com/blog.
The feed is not discoverable on static pages like http://willtaft.com
I have the following in my theme’s header php file:
http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/816408Can anyone tell us why the feed is available on the posts pages, but not on the static pages?
Thanks.