Bulk Clean-up of ‘Approved’ Spam Comments
I recently had to clean up the database for a WordPress installation where several thousand spam comments had managed to slip by the filters and get themselves approved. Naturally, going through and marking each individual one as spam would have been a mind-numbing and infuriating process, and there is no ‘Check for Spam’ button in [...]
Email Comment Notification Issues
I don’t know how many other people who’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 are having this problem, but I’d noticed that none of my email comment notifications were coming in anymhttp://shamuswrites.com/wp-admin/post-new.php Writeore. I sent a note about it to the wp-testers list, and found that the fix is pretty easy. Go to wp-includes/pluggable.php and find and [...]
Xanga Open Comments
I’ve complained about Xanga in the past about a variety of pet peeves with that blogging community, things both pertaining to many of the members of that community and about the way the blogging platform itself is built. Well, in light of my previous entry, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Xanga is now [...]
Quitting IntenseDebate
By Jim on August 23, 2011
That’s it. I think I’m done. I’ve had a pretty good relationship with IntenseDebate’s services on my various websites for quite a while now. Sure, there have been hiccups and periodic issues from time to time, but that’s the nature of online technologies, especially ones that are always under constant development. As WordPress has grown [...]
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