All posts tagged Spam

Recent WordPress Plugins

Since my redesign, I’ve been experimenting with a few new plugins here, and thought I’d share a few of my findings and fun. Some of the plugins, you won’t even notice because they work in the background controlling things like spam and spammy visitors to this site. Others are put in place to make my life a little easier and your experience a little more fun! Here are some of the WordPress plugins I’ve recently …

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A Case for Regular Database Backups

If you’re running a WordPress blog – – when was the last time you backed up your WordPress database? Ever? As a hosting provider, we do full daily, weekly and monthly back ups of our clients account. We do this as a value-added service for our clients, and your host may very well do the same thing. Keep something in mind, however… no matter how awesome your host is – all web hosting providers experience …

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Akismet Bug Fixed

Over the past 24 hours, WordPress users who utilize the Akismet plugin experienced a mass influx of spam (this blog included). We’ve received just a ton of help tickets in our Support Center about the amount of spam they’ve received. This was an Akismet issue and they’ve posted about it on their blog, including a statement that the problem has been resolved: Akismet blog: Downtime Comment/trackback spam is very frustrating – however, when Akismet experiences …

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