The Subscribe To Comments 2.0 plugin by Mark Jaquith of txfx.net must be one of the most popular WordPress plugins. One of the current drawbacks of the current version which Mark is trying to fix in his upcoming 2.1 release, is the fact that blog publishers can’t see who has subscribed to their posts.
Although [...]

Over the course of this month, I’ve made some useful WordPress tweaks and added some useful new plugins, some of which I’ve already shared. Here’s the full list of tweaks I’ve made recently:

Added MYBlogLog Community images at the bottom of my sidebar. It’s been nice to be able to see my readers for [...]

Although the WordPress plugin Akismet does a good job of stopping spam, it does occasionally generate false positives, which are hard to correct because of the sheer number of spam messages that would have to be scanned to find mistakes.
I’ve decided that it’s time to add a couple more layers of defence so that I’m [...]

Now that I’ve relented in my crusade against full text RSS feeds, I’ve decided that Captchas are now my biggest pet hate.  CAPTCHA stands for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” and are the usually unreadable string of text that many sites now ask you to enter before you can [...]

I’m wasting about an hour a day deleting Trackback Spam which is really annoying.  What’s the best way of stopping it?  I’ve tried installing the Trackback validator, which has helped a bit but hasn’t stopped all the spam.
Also, how do I get the latest trackbacks to display on the Dashboard?  At the moment I’m having [...]