Out of all the years I have been using WordPress, I have probably not used one plugin more often than I have used Askimet.  Now that might be because it rocks, or because it came with WordPress, so it was kind of always “there”.  Love it or hate it, it does get the job [...]

Anybody else getting more YouTube spam lately?
I have noticed a few more trickling in lately – so decided to do something about it. If you go visit your My Account page and hunt for around 10 minutes you will find a link for E-mail Options. From there, you can set YouTube to “Don’t [...]

This spam E-mail I just got was just too good not to share. Only thing edited out was the URL they were pushing me to. Brings new meaning to the old “dog eat dog world” saying hu?
Hello my friend!
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here are [...]

I’ve been looking for a good WordPress comment to help me fight the comment and trackback spam I have been getting lately. One solution was to turn off commenting for posts that were so many days old. I like this idea – because I highly doubt somebody today is going to feel motivated [...]

Back when this blog was on Blogware, fighting trackback and comment spam was impossible. The filtering scripts were not that good and all around, I just had to moderate by hand, which is no easy task for a popular Web site of any shape or size.
When I moved to my own hosting account with [...]

Since people liked my article on Firefox Extensions for Regular Folks I figured I might try to cover another topic that is near and dear to my freaky heart, WordPress plugins. Now I like to use WordPress to run the back end of nearly all of my Web sites I manage. It is [...]

We all want to be better known, don’t we? Well, it can’t happen overnight – but I have a few tips that will help you get on the right track when it comes to building up your own publicity machine. In addition to that I’ll have the news of the week, and a [...]

Need a few WordPress plugin suggestions? Well I might be able to say a few nice things about a few of them. To tell you the truth, these have been the icing on the cake when it comes to moving my Web site over from other services.
+ Askimet
Askimet has pretty much killed everything [...]