Domain Move

 Website Updates, Wordpress  No Responses »
Jun 242008
 

I have moved the blog from my domain brokendream.net/wordpress to codemonkies.co.nz/linux .

Codemonkies.co.nz is a project my friend and I came up with, and so far I have been greatly lacking towards it so I thought moving the blog here was a better start, plus the domain is cool! Further, if I can create a good looking WordPress theme as planned, there would be no reason not to transfer it to the whole codemonkies webpage.

I also plan on making this a mostly linux and technical focused blog, so it fits closer with the cm (codemonkies) domain name. This also requires a name change, but am still thinking over different ideas so it may change a few times.

The next thing I need to do is an apache mod_rewrite to pass all of the brokendream.net/wordpress/* addresses to cm.co.nz/linux/ which shouldn’t be too hard, and will preserve all, even while minimal, search traffic to the blog.

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WordPress Spam Management

 General, Wordpress  No Responses »
May 042008
 

After upgrading WordPress to the latest version 2.5, I started recieving 5-6 emails a day about spam comments waiting in my moderation queue, untagged by akismet. I fixed a problem where the akismet key was not validating but the spam notifications continued, I concidered disabling the email notification but that left me having to manually sort the spam. So I started to look around for additional plugins I could use to help stop the influx, and I came apon Hashcash. Hashcash uses JavaScript to verify that the comment poster is using a browser to post instead of a custom written spam bot that would be unable to process the JavaScript. If the javascript hash fails then the message is passed to Akismet to check for spam, which solved my problem of comments not being tagged as spam, and then either tagged as such, or left in the moderation queue.

Thankfully I no longer have multiple notification emails as spam rolled in, and the setup will still allow people to post comments, even if they have JavaScript disabled as long as it passes the akismet spam check.

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