A couple years ago I wrote about using WordPress as a CMS, and how, for most small business and non-profit websites it serves as an ideal tool, allowing the site owner to easily update the website without having to call the webgeek. It’s still one of my most visited blogposts.
Truth is that though I do [...]

A good portion of the jobs I do are WordPress Design jobs. In working with WordPress Design, there are a few things I’ve learned that are peculiar to working with wordpress.
First and foremost, certain negative margin layouts are a nightmare in WordPress, particularly Ryan Brill’s layout that is written up on A List Apart. The [...]

Let me preface this by saying *** KNOCK ON WOOD!!! ***
The Comment Timeout Plugin worked SO WELL that I only had one comment spam break through overnight, where I’d routinely see 20 or more.
I wasn’t doing so well on the contact form spam, I got around 40 of those overnight and they were still coming [...]

Now the bots are spamming my contact form on the barrylyga.com launch post. Hopefully this post that moves that one off the front page will stop the shenanigans. If it doesn’t, then it’s time to look for a 4th contact form version, hopefully one that doesn’t let the bots submit.
Michael Hampton said the spambot activity [...]

This morning I got up, made my coffee, and sat down to the computer as usual, expecting to open email and get to work. Lo and behold, instead of the 20-40 emails I usually have in my box, there were closer to 170. Almost all comment spams.
Now I run Bad Behavior, which usually does a [...]