Tag: Blogging
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Combatting WordPress Trackback Spam
Having combatted WordPress comment spam I now tackle a new phenomenon, trackback spam
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Using .htaccess to redirect hotlinkers to another image
In my last post on using .htaccess to block direct linking of images, I advised simply using the RewriteRule to forbid display of images (i.e. RewriteRule .(gif|png|jpg|jpeg?)$ – [NC,F]). This is a nice simple rule which works a treat to block display of your images on remote sites. However, if you want to take this…
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Using .htaccess to stop remote image linking (hotlinking) and bandwidth theft
Hotlinking, remote image linking, direct image linking is when a remote website embeds images from your site on their webpage(s) – this causes the image to be served from your website to anyone browsing their site – thus they are robbing your bandwidth. How can you stop this? Well, using an .htaccess file in your…
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How to create an .htaccess file
The .htaccess file is a very powerful tool – amongst other things, it allows you to password protect folders, redirect users automatically, use custom error pages, change your file extensions, ban users by IP address, only allow users with certain IP addresses, stop directory listings and use an alternate index file. Creating the file is…
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WordPress plugin repository II
Well, I checked out the WordPress Plugin Repository, mentioned in a previous post, and I have to say I was extremely underwhelmed. The interface is appalling – it is very difficult to find your way around, in particular trying the relevant files for download or trying to find descriptions of plugins is nigh on impossible.…
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Stopping WordPress blog comment spam – the conclusion!
Renaming the wp-comments-post.php file had a drastic effect on the comment spam – it appears very many blog comment spammers go directly to this file to submit their spam. After changing the name of this file, not only did the amount of spam fall off significantly but the number of 404’s for this file ballooned…
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How to stop WordPress Blog Comment Spam
I have recently been plagued with Blog Comment spam on this WordPress powered Blog. The Comment spam takes the form of comments on posts containing links to poker/pharmaceutical/whatever sites – the point being that if the comments are published, the sites will gain another external link and rise in search engine rankings. I moderate all…
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Log file and Blog comment spam
I use AwStats to monitor traffic on the tomandpilar.net site. I monitor the traffic regularly and recently started to notice that my site was apparently being linked to by some very strange sounding sites – Online Poker sites and Online Pharmacies! A quick bit of investigation (and a quick word of explanation from FrankP) told…