It’s a plugin pileup this week! All the links in the Better Blogging Link Blast are for positively poppin’ WordPress plugins. Get ready to download or one-click!
- One-Click install is the winner of the recent WordPress plugin competition, and it’s easy to see why. Being able to install WordPress plugins and themes with a single click is only slightly less convenient than having servants to spoon feed you while you blog. It’s important to note that this is a combination WordPress plugin and Firefox extension. But of course you’re using Firefox, aren’t you, you better blogger, you?
- Many bloggers become the victims of cyberattacks because they are popular, infamous, or, unfortunately, sometimes an outspoken female. WordPress ain’t exactly Fort Knox. Login Lockdown is one plugin that will help. It automatically locks down login for a person for a certain period of time after a number of failed login attempts. A rapid succession of failed logins is often a sign of a brute force attack.
- Sick of comment spam? Even with Akismet and Bad Behavior, I still get too many spam comments a day. One solution is to install a captcha. Captchas are when you see a picture of letters and numbers you must enter into a form in order to submit the form. You’re proving that you’re not a spambot. CAPTCHA plugin for WordPress allows you to create your own captcha on their web page and then download the code as a plugin, which itself is a rather interesting way to do things.
I have implemented this on michaelmartine.com. UPDATE: It doesn’t want to work, so I’ve deactivated it. - Better Comments Manager is saving me tons of time approving and responding to legitimate comments. It lets you approve and reply to comments in the same interface instead of jumping around all over the place.
- Sig2feed is a plugin that lets you add content of any kind at the bottom of posts in your RSS feed. I’ve been using it for my Secret Links feature, which only people who subscribe to my RSS feed can see. As a result, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for how I do it. to give credit where credit is due, I got the idea from AdSense expert Eric Guigere.
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I will see if i can find this plugin i used last year that worked a treat. Instead of using captcha you can have readers answering general questions or describing a picture.
Sure, that would be great if you can find it. Feel free to post a link to it in a new comment.
PS – I don’t mind titles in the links for comments, but please include your name somehow so I know what to call you.
I use some of them, but I like the sound of that lockdown plugin as an extra line of security.
For your spam, try the TanTan Noodles simple spam filter – it really cuts down the number for moderation + gives humans a second chance. Personally, I hate Captchas of any kind
Thanks for the tip on that one, Chris! I’ll look into it. That’s a great name for a plugin.