I thought Akismet was a good WordPress plugin for fighting blog spam, but yesterday I installed one that is even better.  Rather than catching spam and putting it in a spam folder, Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from even accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots.  This is a great solution as the Bad Behaviour plugin doesn't affect genuine commenters.  Since I installed it yesterday no spam at all has got through.  I'm still running Akismet as a backup to catch any sad (and inefficient) spammers who manually post spam on blogs.

I added a few more plugins yesterday and I think that's enough for now as I think I've been doing too much tinkering with my blog and not enough posting over the last two weeks.  I've created a new page which displays all the 50 or so plugins I've installed (created with a plugin of course!). 

My latest plugin efforts include:

Comment Plugins 

• Edit Comments: Allows users to edit their comments for up to 30 minutes after posting. Very useful if you make a mistake
• Gravatar:This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. Took me a while to get this one workin, but I think it was worth it.
• Gravatar Signup: Allows commenters to sign up for a gravatar by clicking a checkbox and filling in a desired password
• Impostercide: Prevents unauthenticated users from “signing” a comment with a registered users email address
• Paged Comments: Breaks down comments into a number of pagesQuote Comment     Creates a function that outputs a link that allows commenters to click it and quote the selected comment. Configure via the options page.      

Admin Plugins

• Log 404: Sends all 404 requests back to PHP’s system logger.  I'm finding this plugin useful to track broken external links caused by moving from Blogware to WordPress
• Post Query Accelerator: Sets $now to the time of the latest post, instead of the current time, which allows for MySQL caching of such queries.  Read more here about optimising WordPress

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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 by Everton

8 Comments on “WordPress Plugin Overload!”

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  Martin
  June 20th, 2006 21:45 GMT

  I found another great plugin that you might take a look at if you are not using it already: It´s called Blank Target Comments. It opens all links in the comments in a new page instead of opening the link in the same page, i.e. the visitor stays on the main site.

  http://www.techwench.com/wp/entry/blank_target_comments/
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  Martin
  June 20th, 2006 22:35 GMT

  And one that combats comment spam by displaying some chars that the user has to type in..

  http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17

  Easy installation, copy the folder with the single php file into your wordpress plugin directory, download a free ttf font from http://www.dafont.com/, enable the plugin, go into options captcha and enter the url of the font.
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  Everton Blair
  June 21st, 2006 03:21 GMT

  [Comment ID #1087 Will Be Quoted Here]
  I already use blank plugins. What I like about wordpress is nearly everytime I think ‘I wish it did this’ I can find a plugin!
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  Ken Wilson
  January 1st, 2007 15:09 GMT

  Your http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/about/plugins-i-use/ page is now a 404

  I was looking forward to seeing the list.
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  Everton
  January 1st, 2007 15:12 GMT

  Hmm I took that down ages ago. I’ll put it back up just for you -give me 2 mins
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  Everton
  January 1st, 2007 15:44 GMT

  Page is live again
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