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...

Closing Comments to Control Spam

About a week ago, I set WordPress to automatically close comments on posts over 90 days old on my Reclaimer website. Spam comments over there have become completely unreasonable lately, with Akismet catching and filtering out upwards of 300 spam a day. The vast...

Twitter Spam and Follows

Spammers have infiltrated Twitter. This has been going on for a little while, but now they’re starting to irritate me just a bit. Basically what happens is that you have these Twitter accounts created, usually with just one tweet – a link to some sham...

Bad Behavior Behaves Badly

Well, _that_ was fun. I’ve been having some issues recently with a couple of my WordPress installations. In a nutshell, every form that has anything to with communication to the database was choking. Data wasn’t being saved to the database, screens...

Silly Spammers

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