WordPress Plug-ins

WordPress FeedBurner Plugin with Comments

Posted on April 19, 2006

Update – Ivan stopped by to inform me that there is a newer Feedburner plugin that now includes comments and does not need .htaccess. It can be downloaded at orderedlist.com. Thanks Ivan.

Now the original post -

This is a quick “How to” on how to get your comments feed to also be served by FeedBurner when using the WordPress FeedBurner Plug-in from orderedlist.com.

Currently the plugin only will allow one feed to be redirected.

Here it goes -

  1. Setup your post feed and your comments feed at FeedBurner.
  2. Download the WordPress FeedBurner Plug-in – uploaded it, activate it, enter your post feed info in the options section, activate the redirect.
  3. In you WordPress back end go to Manage > Files
  4. Click on “.htaccess (for rewrite rules)” on the right side (Make sure that is does not say “If this file were writable you could edit it.” at the bottom - if it does you need to give write permissions to it) Read the rest of this entry »

E-mail Spam while using WP-ContactForm

Posted on April 5, 2006

Wow this website is only about a week old and I have already started to get spam on both the comments and via my contact page.

Fortunately I was using the plug-in Akismet that comes with WordPress to catch the comment spam.

Unfortunately though, the WP-ContactForm plug-in did not have anything to try and stop spam.

After a search for “WordPress contact form spam” on Google I found Dragon Design Form Mailer which puts a little verification code that needs to be entered correctly before the email can be sent.

Hopefully this will stop the spam at the gates.

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