Wordpress blogging system comes with the “Akismet” learning spam filter for the comments. Unfortunately this filter has proved to be fallible and missed 1-2 spam comments out of every 100.
Almost two weeks ago I had to implement extremely simple spam bot protection in my weblog on top of the Akismet.
That’s the picture that I see every day since then:
Akismet filter is still working in case next-gen of spam bots will learn to check every single check box they see.
PS: I’m disappointed that spammers do not simply hook some fast evolutionary algorithms to the spam delivery tool (trained on “per publishing platform” basis). It would’ve been interesting to fight these.
I used to have Akismet plugin for WordPress, but it seems to miss some spam-bots.
So we’ll try something a bit different - “world’s simplest spam-bot protection”:
PS: Learning PHP by looking at the code has turned out to be trivial. All languages are similar, after all.
PPS: Please, drop me a line at info-rabdullin.com if it goes wild and does not let you in.
Published on December 19, 2007
in How To.
There’s a simple option in FeedBurner that allows you to bind their feeds to your domain name. You just need to:
Here are steps on the subject:
- Check the weblog with w3c validator (Google does not respect badly formed documents).
- Register an account at the Google Analytics and add tracking script to your weblog. You could use “Text, HTML and PHP” WordPress sidebar module for this purpose.
- Download and activate Google (XML) Sitemaps generator plug-in for WordPress.
- Submit weblog to to Google indexing
- Use Google Webmaster Tools to submit the sitemap and check for various problems.
- Register at Feedburner and follow the instructions to redirect all RSS feeds through the service.
PS: For example, this is my sitemap.
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