I created this blog for 2 main reasons. Firstly, to help myself keep track of different projects, and record my own ideas as they develop.
The second aim is to share my experiences with others, and gain interest from potential project partners or backers in the future.
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If you didn’t already know, weblog tools collection is running it’s annual plugin competition.
I thought I’d throw in a small entry of my own, which I’ve named Content By Country. It lets a post author display different text (or affiliate links etc) to visitors depending on their location (at the country level).
Download CBC here [..]
Up until a few days ago, I was using a combination of Askimet and Spam Karma to keep spam at bay. It worked quite well too, and kept out most of the spam comments that were coming in (up to 200 a week lately). But due to me trying to track down a mysql problem, I disabled Spam Karma.
Silent Bulk Filtering:
Although Askimet does a good job by itself, I wanted to add a pre-filter layer to stop the bulk of spam (most of which is very obvious) from every being recorded in the system. After a bit of searching, I came across the TanTan Spam filter. It does exactly what I was looking for, and allows you to configure some simple paramters to block [..]
