New blog, post collating, BBcode, spam, wordpress api key
February 7, 2009 3 Comments
New Blog
Well, now I have more bandwidth and space on the server, I installed wordpress with the view to consolidate all my other blogs and forums howto guides here in one single place.
Post Collating
The strange thing is, that I could import from Blogger directly from blog-to-blog over the internet, but I couldn’t perform the same easy import from WordPress to WordPress. You need to create a wordpress backup then import that file from your desktop. Now i’m not sure if I missed something, but I couldn’t find the “export” option on my wordpress.com hosted blog.
BBcode Plugin
All my website and blog posts were html so they were easy to import or copy and paste. Thank Devs for the BBcode plugin for WordPress, it meant that I could just copy and paste any useful Howto’s I posted on ther forums here, without having to manually edit all the html tags.
Akismet Spam Blocker
Obviously I setup Akismet straight away, as those bastard scum spammers are always lurking around the corner. It even places a cool Spam Blocked Counter for your sidebar, which shows how many of these scumbags have been sent packing to date. Well, this blog has been up a week, and it has stopped four Casino site spammers already. Shit! the spammers found me even before Google did!!
WordPress Api Key for Self Hosted Blogs
If you want to use Akismet and WordPress stats on your own blog on your own server, you will have to insert an api key. If you haven’t got a WordPress blog, go and sign up for one at wordpress.com. You will get an api key assigned to that blog.
http://en.wordpress.com/api-keys/
Now, if your wordpress.com username is different from the one on you use on your own blog, just create a new user with the same name as on your worpress.com blog, list them as an admin. Now logout, sign in as that user, and insert the api key.
It’ll tell you that this api key is from another user/blog blah blah, just choose associate with this blog and you’re done. Now you can use your api key for Akismet and Blog stats.
About rich scadding
On the forum …… my username has been erased. When I tried to sign up again, I got this response :? I am not a Spam! I am downloading DL 3.5 right now.
[quote]An Error Has Occurred!
The user JP with Email mispamail@gmail.com (IP 72.250.147.11) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.[/ quote]
Where on the login page is a link to contact the administrator?
Thanks
I am the Admin, so you can send an email to me (admin AT dreamlinuxforums DOT org) with a username and temporary password and I will set you up a new account. You can then login and change the password.
rich
I’d add reCaptcha for comments spam, Akismet isn’t bad, don’t get me wrong. But if you want a 100% spam free blog, you’ll need multiple methods. reCaptcha is the industry standard captcha service, used by the likes of Google, Myspace, Facebook, etc. Its an “install and its working” kind of plugin. Just signup and download it, I highly suggest you give it a try. You can see an example at my blog, on “comments page, the right way”- http://www.jeremyporadek.com/blog/146
It also comes in different colors so you can match your theme easily :)
I hope this helps, I just started this blog for myself, but I’ve been designing them since WordPress .. 1.2, I guess. There are also some good .htaccess tricks to block spambots if you don’t want reCaptcha, but they are very complex and may block legit comments. I know I sound like an Ad for the service, but its so good that when I needed a contact form, and within 10 mins, I was able to add reCaptcha to it- in a completely unsupported plugin.