WordPress Maintenance ~ Delete Comment Spam

I host a lot of wordpress sites for friends, family and business and one thing I’ve noticed is the collection of spam on some of these sites because they either don’t want to use the provided spam plugins, don’t maintain the plugins or just simply don’t care about their blog anymore.

Something I do regularly on my site but neglected to run on the other sites is running a SQL to delete the comments marked as spam in the comments table.

Instructions:

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Work was crazy today, with some major problems that needed…

Work was crazy today, with some major problems that needed to be addressed on our websphere site and then spending my “breaks” working on a site for a friend I couldn’t find the time to complete a post today, hopefully tomorrow I’ll publish one of my drafts from last week. [Link] (0)

Poker tonight ended up being great. Not entirely because I…

Poker tonight ended up being great. Not entirely because I came up as the big winner but I have a potential of making a lot of money for good friend and would be rewarded for it, hmmm…iPhone. [Link] (0)

Wordpress rally

I’d recommend reading this illogical post from Duncan at Techcrunch and then rally around Matt in the comments section.

After reading all of Duncan’s and Matt’s comments I had to throw my two-cents in,

Duncan: I don’t see your point. You mention that Matt can’t have it both ways but by writing this article and placing *your* issues into a “gray area†you’re rewarding your terms with two-ways to lean; neither for or against, making you’re actually opinion irrelevant. And isn’t this just…

Scattered Goals

I’ve been steadily moving towards this already but here are my blog goals:

“Actual Friends”

I want to add more personal posts through Pownce but I need to decide how to segment out those few of you that are my “actual friends”. It’s a shame you all don’t use Pownce. Maybe a new blog is in order.

Pownce

Post all my asides in Pownce and continue to pull them into this site for my RSS readers and non-pownce users to comment.
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DANCAMERON: One thing I love to hate about Pownce is whenever…

One thing I love to hate about Pownce is whenever I submit a message I have to select pulic because the default is friends. I wish there was an option to determine what you want as default.

repercussion of a mini-blog

I do apaligize for the duplicates yesterday. After migrating to Pownce and shutting off twitter tools to pull in posts Twitter Tools went crazy. Every time I deleted the twitter posts they automatically were added minutes later without my doing. I’m thinking it was a cron issue because only after I deleted the cron value from the options table did it stop, but I did delete the plugin instead of just deactivating it and also deleted the tweets table so…

@merlin: r……

@merlin: right on. I don’t agree with the term “friend” on social sites (unless it’s facebook) and it just makes more sense to “follow’” #

Pownce

Received a Pownce invite from Techcrunch’s newly purchased inviteshare.com. I’d like to say that inviteshare is not just a great idea but the design and implementation is wonderful. I received my invite to Pownce in less than 5 minutes of requesting it; I just hope the demonoid invite get fulfilled through it’s small community.

On to my early impressions of Pownce:

It’s been compared to Twitter but it’s completely missing the mobility of Twitter and the accessibility of Twitter. Without an API it’s going to…

Goodbye…

I’m purging my online identity to just a few locations that I actually use since it was getting out of control. The major account escape that led to the purge was myspace, as you might have noticed if I’m a friend of yours. The others include:

tumblr - It’s a great “blog” service that compiles a lot of your online feeds into one online log. I liked the idea but it’s not something I see people using (for me) since if their…