Lately, every time I manually flagged a comment as spam, I started to have the impression that they all were posted on the same post, namely an old announcement for my plugin "Absolute Comments". An SQL query later, my impression was confirmed: this blog post *is* a spam magnet: I suspect that some particular keywords in page titles act like…
I've recently moved to WordPress an active community site which is run and moderated by several editors and administrators. Each post gets dozens of comments, and I wanted to highlight those made by staff members. What not to do If you've googled a bit for a solution on how to identify authors' or admins' comments, you've probably seen several explanations…
Lately I realized that I absolutely don't care any longer about trackbacks. At the beginning, it was fun to get a notice every time someone would link to my blog, and I would religiously check their site and probably discovered cool blogs this way. But now? While I value comments, I just don't see the point of trackbacks any more.…
WordPress 2.7 (release date: November 2008) will bring a load of new features, and most of the cool new bits will concern comment managements. On the public side of your blog, you will be able to show them threaded and paged without any extra plugin. Well, at least if your theme is able to do so. Otto has written a…
To those using comment moderation on their blog, here is a simple trick that should become part of every theme. I just left a comment on Logo Design Love, an empyreal blog about logo design by David Airey. My comment went into moderation as per his comment policy, but instead of the standard message you've been told a million times…