Spammers really take the fun out of wordpress

I switched on this thing called Akismet which might make life easier. If it doesn’t I think I will pack up and move to blogspot. Meanwhile here are some things that we should be doing next:

  • Upgrade to the latest TW. (I think we are one point release behind)
  • Let people remove their own sites. (Are you really sure? Are really truly sure you’re sure?)
  • Make ts sites “clean”. By that I mean stop doing that sneaky/lazy little hack to put the upload button in the the SidebarOptions shadow tiddler and the password box in options because it dissappears when you upgrade your TW code.
  • Restore the stats page. I think I can do it now with the tracking gif.
  • Fix up our site reports. Our old ones are too slow now since we have 6000 or so sites. I am currently counting sites using ls -l | wc -l.. :)
  • Learn about fastcgi and how we might use it to reduce load (someday maybe?)

Update:

Well Akismet is doing a pretty good job so far, thank goodness. And I thought of another one, probably ahead of all the rest:

  • Make an “I forgot my password” page. To make this effective we would probably have to ask for an email address at sign up.

Comments (1) left to “Spammers really take the fun out of wordpress”

  1. Kevin wrote:

    There are a few great ways to eliminate evil comment spam. David Seah has a great post about exactly this. You may want to see if this applies. It basically is installing and configuring a few plugins, including Askimet. However, it spplears that you can put another layer of protection _before_ it even gets to Askimet.

    http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/10/18/comment-spam-measures/

    Regards.