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Updated to Akismet 2.5.6

Friday, April 27, 2012

In the past I used several plugins like Cookies for Comments and Simple Trackback Validation along side Akismet to fight comment and tracback/pingback spam. Nowadays I only use Akismet because it does an excellent job of fighting spam all by itself and having less plugins lessens the load on the server. The WordPress team just [...]

Beware of Fake iTunes Receipt Emails

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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If you own an iPhone, iPod or iPad then you’re used to regularly receiving iTunes receipt emails on your inbox. Last week, my wife was surprised when she received an iTunes receipt in her email inbox amounting to $699.99. As soon as she told me about it, I knew right away that it could be [...]

Weekend Roundup #123

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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Hi folks! Welcome to the 123rd edition of the Weekend Roundup. Like always, there’s lots of useful and interesting stories and links here from all around the Internet on blogging, WordPress, SEO, social media, technology, gadgets including a recap of last week’s posts here on JaypeeOnline. Hope you enjoy reading and learn something from them. [...]

Weekend Roundup #119

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Hello folks! My apologies for the late edition of the Weekend Roundup. Tried to finish it and have it ready by yesterday but due to some personal business and unavoidable circumstances, I wasn’t able to publish it. Nevertheless, this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup if full of very interesting and useful links so I [...]

Google Adds Email Signing on Google Apps

Friday, January 7, 2011

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Since 2004, Gmail has supported e-mail signing standards like DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to validate mail with digital signatures and help users identify that the emails they receive are from verified senders like eBay and PayPal. Email authentication doesn’t only verify the identity of the sender but also helps in recognizing potential spam [...]

Beware of WordPress Theme Malware

Monday, December 13, 2010

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One of the things that make WordPress great and popular is the huge number of available free themes and plugins. Unfortunately, the popularity of free WordPress themes have been used by scammers, spammers and malicious users, as an opportunity to cash in and/or wreak havoc. Many of the free WordPress themes available on the Internet [...]

Gmail Priority Inbox

Friday, September 3, 2010

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I have been using Gmail the past 5 years and for me what makes it better than other webmail services, (aside from it’s very effective spam filter) is that the Gmail team is constantly coming up with new features to improve the total user experience. The newest Gmail feature called Priority Inbox, is an experimental [...]

Google Webmaster Tools: New Message Center Notifications

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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From small personal sites, forums, school & university websites, large corporate websites to government websites – thousands of websites get hacked, maliciously attacked and compromised with spam and bad content each day. In an effort to provide webmasters with more useful information, Google will soon be sending more notifications to webmasters via the Webmaster Tools [...]

Akismet 2.2.1 – Now With Stats

Monday, October 20, 2008

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Spam comments graph Was checking my WordPress dashboard earlier today when I saw a notification for a plugin update. When I checked on the Plugins page, I saw that it was an update for a newer version of Akismet, version 2.2.1. I did the upgrade via the automatic (one-click) upgrade feature of WordPress. After the [...]

Update to Akismet 2.1.8

Sunday, September 7, 2008

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The first thing I did when I went back to blogging was to make sure my WordPress installation was up-to-date so I upgraded it to the latest version which was WordPress 2.6.1. I also updated all the plugins that I have via the Plugins section of the dashboard. One of the plugins I updated was Akismet and at that time, the version available was 2.1.7. All upgrades went smoothly and I was able to post my last entry, reply to some comments, check blog stats and other stuff. Because of the 3 month long hiatus, I wasn't able to do much with my blog except for approving comments. Spam comments have piled up and numbered at the thousands. No matter how much spam comments I have, I always make it a habit/practice to check the spam queue for valid comments. When I was done going through the list, I clicked on the Delete All button and waited for the spam comments to disappear. It was taking quite a while to finish and at first I thought it was taking long because of the large amount of spam comments I had but when I saw that the browser stopped loading and the spam comments were still there I knew something was wrong. Anyways, I tried doing it again and ended up repeating the process like three times to no avail.

Another Warning To WordPress Users

Sunday, November 18, 2007

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Around three months ago, I posted a warning to WordPress and Joomla users about downloading themes from TemplateBrowser.com which contained hidden spam and malware links. What they did was collect public themes for WordPress and Joomla, modify it and redistribute it on their site. Well it seems that they’re not the only ones doing it [...]