Archive for May, 2008

Today, I updated the BT Active Discussions to version 1.1.1. If you are using my plugin please update as soon as you can. Summary of Changes The following are changes made since the previous version: The SQL query is now faster -- One thing I noticed about the first version is that it works slowly on my personal finance blog which only has about 3,900 comments. This is unacceptable because it wouldn't be very functional on ...

Over the weekend, I just created my first WordPress plugin, called BT Active Discussions. It is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comment. The output is very similar to phpBB's View Active Topics and vBulletin's Today's Posts functions. You can see a demo at Moolanomy Personal Finance Blog. I'd appreciate any feedback you can provide below.

Sooner or later, your beloved WordPress blog will be flooded with comment and trackback spams. As a blogger, there is not much you can do to stop spams from hitting your blog, but there are several things you could do to fight them back. 5 Levels of Spam Protection 1. Discussion Settings A key setting in your WordPress configuration is the check box "Comment author must have a previously approved comment". You can find this under ...