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Contactify – trying to prevent comment spam

| April 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
Contactify is a new service that is supposed to allow people to contact you while hiding your email address, and thus preventing comment spam. I say supposed to, because I'm having trouble figuring out what the advantage of the service is. Here's a play-by-play of my experience:
  • Went to website and signed up with
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WordPress Plugin: Comment Email Responder

| April 22, 2007 | 0 Comments
The Comment Email Responder plugin is one of those plugins that make you wonder why no one else ever thought of it. This handy plugin makes it easy for a WordPress administrator to respond to a comment and simultaneously send an email to the commenter. If the commenter has ... View Post

Paged comments plugin

| April 9, 2007 | 0 Comments
So your blog is so popular that you regularly get hundreds of comments on your posts. This makes the pages on your blog incredibly long, forcing users to keep scrolling down if they want to see the comments. Kevyan Minoukadeh's WordPress Paged Comments Plugin allows paging for comments. ... View Post

Allow users to correct comments for up to 30 minutes

| April 9, 2007 | 1 Comment
Ever entered a comment on another site, pressed submit, only to see that your comment has a big ol' spelling mistake? Jalecode's Edit Comments plugin allows users to edit their own comments for up to 30 minutes after they have submitted them. Jalecode states that the readme ... View Post

DoFollow plugin – sharing the love

| March 25, 2007 | 11 Comments
I recently posted a comment on a blog, and was surprised to get a trackback link as a result from their blog. Suddenly I understood what all the excitement is over turning off the NoFollow links from commenters. Why not make those links real? So I've installed DoFollow here on WordPressGarage.com, ... View Post

Tip: add comments feed to header to attract more subscribers

| March 18, 2007 | 0 Comments
JohnTP.com quotes Everton who points out that following simple change that made the number of subscribrers to his comment feed jump overnight: Find the following code in your header.php file: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" ... View Post

Subscribe to Comments

| March 14, 2007 | 0 Comments
Subscribe to Comments is an excellent plugin that increases the functionality and "sociability" of comments on a WordPress blog. Commenters can select to receive notification of new comments on a certain post, and even those who haven't commented can enter their email address to receive notification of new comments. I ... View Post

DoFollow

| March 14, 2007 | 1 Comment
[This plugin] will disable the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links. You may want to do this if you have good spam filtering for your comments, or if your blog is moderated. Optionally you can also set a comment age limit for adding the attributes.
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Search Pages, Comments and more with Search Everything Plugin

| March 11, 2007 | 0 Comments
In default WordPress installations, the search function only yields results for posts. It does not search pages, comments, or anything else. Search Everything from Dan Cameron solves that problem. Install and activate the plugin, and then go to Options > Search Everything to select what exactly ... View Post
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