Apostolos Dountsis

I have updated the Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress. This point release concentrates on the supported sites.
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I have made available an updated version (1.2) of the Move Comments plugin for WordPress. The changes are:

• Interface under Admin now features a 2.7 look and feel.
• Fixed the bug where items whose status was not ‘publish’ was appearing on the drop-down list.
• Re-arranged the interface.
• The plugin is now located under the Comments section on WP 2.7.

It’s been a while now that the WordPress team has setup a directory for all the plugins and themes. Downloading a plugin from the directory allows your WordPress site to automatically notify you when an update is available and upgrade to its latest version through your Dashboard.

I have now moved the current versions of both the Social Bookmarks and the Move Comments plugins to the WordPress repository. For those of you, who have downloaded the plugins from my site, you need to re-install them from the directory to take advantage of the automatic updating feature.

The locations of my plugins on the WordPress site are:

• Move Comment
• Social Bookmarks

Unfortunately spam comments is a problem that every website with a comments option in place have to resolve. Until now, Dountsis.com was residing in using the WordPress plugin “Did you pass math?” in order to block spam bots. However, I was getting complains that people were unable to submit legitimate comments as they were told that no question was asked and the site was expecting an answer.

Therefore, I had to look for an alternative way to block spam and drop the use of the particular plugin. The solution seems to be the WP-SpamFree plugin. It  eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. It works without CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions, or other inconvenience to the site visitors.

Most of the spam hitting web sites originates from bots. Few bots can process JavaScript (JS). Few bots can process cookies. Fewer still, can handle both. In a nutshell, WP-SpamFree plugin uses a dynamic combo of JavaScript and cookies to weed out the humans from spambots, preventing 99%+ of automated spam from ever getting to a web site. Usually, the simpler solutions are the best ones and this plugin proves the case for that…