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Stopping Spamblog Registration in WordPress MultiUser

May 20, 2009 · 46 comments

in work

I’ve been running a copy of WordPress MultiUser for over a year now. Comment spam hasn’t been much of a problem, thanks to Akismet, but if I leave site registration open (so students and faculty can create new accounts and blogs), the evil spammers find it and start sending their bots en masse.
I tried a [...]

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Blocking script leechers by http referrer

March 18, 2009 · 2 comments

in work

I’ve been running a copy of the excellent Feed2JS RSS feed embedder script on one of our servers for a few years(!) now. It’s a great way to embed any RSS feed onto any web page. The problem is that it’s a little too attractive to some of the more leecherly and unsavoury members of [...]

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