Check out the newest plugin available to help you combat WPMU and BuddyPress spam. If you’ve just set up a site with no spam protection whatsoever and sent it out into the wild, I guarantee that within a matter of days you will be inundated with spam users, splogs, and spam comments. It’s important to [...]
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I’ve put together a summary of some useful plugins that you may not have heard about yet. Some of them are new in 2010 and others have been around a little while and have been recently updated. With all the buzz about BuddyPress lately, I’d like to make sure we’re keeping you up to date [...]
Are WPMU or BuddyPress splogs driving you crazy? Is your site on the verge of being virtually crippled by dozens of splog registrations per day? Step into our office, please. You suffer from a common dilemma: How can I keep my registration open for real users and increase membership but put a lock on the [...]
by Aaron
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 [...]
by Aaron
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 [...]
by Aaron
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 [...]
Tagged: Anti-Spam, buddypress plugin, edublogs, premium plugins, spam, splog, splogs, used in edublogs
The first time I ever saw one of my blogs on another site I was enraged. “They stole my content!” It was verbatim. They could have at least changed the wording a bit. Then I realized that they were tapping into my RSS to steal it, strip it of links, and post without credit. Unless [...]
Are you tired of visiting your BuddyPress site and finding spam users littering up your membership directory? Despite our best efforts, sometimes spammers are able to get through and create accounts. There is a plugin you should know about in the continual battle of man against evil machines, specifically those designed to create splogs. BuddyPress [...]
Tagged: activation, buddypress, Community, customize emails, moderation, spam, spam accounts, splog, splogs, wpmu
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 [...]