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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Every now and again I sign into WordPress admin Dashboard and check to see who has linked to me. Today is a pretty typical day. These are a few that I checked out– marieddu.forpassion.net rivet.diboo.net aviscontraire.quebecblogue.com avmea.oottoo.com one-year.org/martinos uzgunuveyalnizim.oottoo.com nellasushi.dakotablogs.com I think we can all tell from that random sampling which of my free wordpress [...]

I’ve been finding over time that there are a lot of Content Management Systems out there. Some are quite good, like ModX and Joomla, while others need a doctorate in jargon just to figure out how to edit an article. I’m finding that for smaller business sites the simplest one to use is WordPress, especially [...]