This one is just too useful not to provide a link–Comment Timeout.
It provides automated closing of comments and trackbacks. You can configure the length of time before comments are closed and also lengthen that time for popular posts. I added this to my Threads blog and my Energion Publications business blog, both of which have encountered problems with queries. Blocking these comments should reduce the workload.
There’s a good list here for WordPress.
Some time ago I started switching all of my company’s (Energion Publications) web sites to use WordPress as a content management system. As I began to do that I intended to make those sites look as little like a blog as possible. The basic idea was that a blog is a sort of personal…
I had a number of missing buttons on my “Write Post” page after upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Since I upgraded a number of installations of WordPress at the same time, and most of them work, I came quickly to suspect an upload problem. Note that I’m not talking about missing icons in the visual editor,…
In a previous post I provided code for a simple macro I wrote to export text from an Office Writer document that was suitable to paste in the non-visual WordPress editor. The reason I wrote this was to produce the minimal HTML necessary without cluttering the resulting document. Occasionally I write in Writer and then…
Over the last few months I have begun using WordPress as a content management system (CMS) on a number of sites for my publishing venture, Energion Publications. The reason for this is simple. It’s a good idea from the marketing perspective to have a site to promote each book, but these book sites are small…
An answer to the question: Do You Need a WordPress Security Plugin? The explanation is also useful in helping those who aren’t experts understand why computer security must be regularly updated.
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