While developing and testing our new Anti-Splog plugin on Edublogs we have been making a lot of sploggers very unhappy. A nifty feature of the Anti-Splog plugin is that when you mark a blog as spam instead of that boring white warning screen showing when you visit the splog you get a pretty, branded notification [...]
For those who don’t know, we (Incsub) run one of the largest WPMU sites on the web with hundreds of thousands of blogs and users. The trouble was that edublogs was getting overwhelmed by splogs with hundreds of new ones being created every day. We never came close to staying caught up with them, and [...]
This is the plugin every WordPress MU or Buddypress admin has been waiting for! Announcing Anti-Splog, the ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WPMU. This plugin goes way beyond any existing splog plugin for WPMU because at it’s core is the new Anti-Splog API service hosted at WPMU Dev Premium. This [...]
Anyone who has maintained a WPMU site lately has more than likely had to contend with spammers worming their way in to create user accounts. Have you noticed that the function to ban email domains in WordPress MU 2.8.4 doesn’t work? You enter the domain in the options for banned email field and they still [...]
by Sarah Gooding
Daily Tip: How to Disable Comments On Older Posts to Cut Down on Spam
If you’re getting a fair bit of spam on older blog posts, you may want to disable commenting on posts older than a year or two. Because your posts are still indexed by search engines, you’ll still be getting traffic there, but you may not want the burden of answering questions on posts that are [...]