Comments on: Administrative Note – I’m Fed Up

By: Doobie

Doobie — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:03:33 +0000

Sooooo, I guess this would be the wrong time to talk about the benfits of herbal Viagra?

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:29:20 +0000

I may be totally clueless here; but can’t you have word verification like in blogger and other sites?

Usually spam is sent by a computer (not a human) so it can’t read the alphabets drawn on the small image. I though word verification is pretty strong tool to ensure there is a human posting the comment.

Karthik

By: jim

jim — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:00:29 +0000

Man I love Word Press, Spam Karma’s been working like a dream though the last day or two there have been a couple ones that have made it through. Nothing with links in the text but a couple authors from random-url-about-prescription-drugs.com but nothing major.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:24:24 +0000

I’m using WordPress mainly because I don’t want to spend a lot of my time working on the layout. I agree that 99.9% of the themes suck and look like amateurs made them. None are professional looking.

Best of luck to ya. Sorry to hear you get so much junk.

By: MoneyDummy

MoneyDummy — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:55:21 +0000

Tim, if you’ve found a nice-looking and reliable theme, I would LOVE to hear about it. The themes I try are constantly giving me fits, and although I’ve got a decent one working right now, I have no doubt that the next time I post an image it will go U-shaped again.

By: FMF

FMF — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:52:48 +0000

I know what you mean — I have the same problem.

By: NickV

NickV — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:17:16 +0000

Customizing templates in WordPress is a pain. I think there are actually people who’ll do it for a small fee. On the other hand, Akismet is awesome.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:55:57 +0000

I, too, feel your pain. I’m only now beginning to play with WordPress 2.0 for a couple of other projects. The templates might as well all fall out of a can. I found nothing I really liked, so I just cleaned out the default theme and started from scratch.

Wait — were we talking about taking too much time?

By: MoneyDummy

MoneyDummy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:35:20 +0000

I feel your pain. WordPress has been an absolute nightmare for me. I mean, in THEORY it should be the most beautiful blogging program in the world, but in practice the themes are so fickle. Adding a link or a photo can shove your sidebar to the bottom middle of the page or put a huge gap in between your header and your posts. And I’ve started getting a little spam as well, though nothing like the scale you’re encountering, it seems like.

By: trip

trip — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:37:45 +0000

When I was using WordPress, Spam Karma seemed to work very well with its default config. It was easy to install too. Not sure what to do about MT.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:30:24 +0000

I feel your pain.

Other blogs? =)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:58:43 +0000

I use Hashcash for WordPress. I used to get a ton of comment spam and now I don't get any. It installs as a plugin so I didn't have to modify anything, I just had to go into the admin and activate the plugin.