Apostolos Dountsis

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…

An updated version of the Social Bookmarks 4 WordPress plugin is now available. This version does not include any new features. It addresses the AJAX hide-show and the Nifty 404 bugs.

You can download it from the usual location.

How many times you have stumbled upon a theme or a plug-in that you want to test on your site? WordPress does not offer a preview feature so the only option is to make it live which should not be the prefered (and only) option while testing or in general experimenting with new features.

In this article, we will investigate how we can setup a copy of our WordPress powered site on a local machine will serve as a development and test environment.

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I am happy to announce that Social Bookmarks 4.0 is now available. The previous version had over 8500 downloads. I hope that the new version continues on the success of the previous versions.

Social Bookmarks 4 is possibly the biggest release of the plugin. For a start, it features a new look-and-feel with AJAX and new buttons. The code base has been completely re-written. Also, this version introduces localization to the plugin. You can now download additional language packs from the site to gain access to language specific sites. A template pack is also available so that you can write your own language packs. Finally, the number of included sites out of the box is now 50.

Just head to the Downloads section and grab it!