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Re: Administrative Note – I’m Fed Up

Doobie — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:03:33 -0000

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

Re: Administrative Note – I’m Fed Up

jim — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:00:29 -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-prescripti... but nothing major.

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MoneyDummy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:55:21 -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.

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Karthik — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:29:20 -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

Re: Administrative Note – I’m Fed Up

Tim — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:24:24 -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.

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FMF — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:52:48 -0000

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

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NickV — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:17:16 -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.

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MoneyDummy — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:35:20 -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.

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trip — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:37:45 -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.

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Michael — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:55:57 -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?

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Jonathan — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:30:24 -0000

I feel your pain.

Other blogs? =)

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Eric — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:58:43 -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.