Playing with Plugins
This weekend I downloaded and played with some different plug ins for WordPress. Unfortunately one of them knocked out my comments for while. I had to deactivate the Gregarious Digg plugin because it doesn’t work with the K2 theme comment system. I thought it was a pretty good plugin until I discovered it crashed my commenting system.Â
I also activated a plugin called Kramer which enrolled my site into the Technorati system and more accurately logs trackbacks to the site. That plugin has been working well. I also have the Popularity Contest Plugin installed. I had to do a lot of code tweaking but it is working fine now. That plugin uses a formula that includes page views, comments, trackbacks, etc. to determine the most popular page on the site.
Finally I tried to install the Bad Behavior plugin to cut back on the spam messages hitting my webpage, but for whatever reason the Bad Behavior plugin would crash my whole webpage, so I had to delete it to get my page working again. It is unfortunate because my site gets hit with an unbelievable 300-400 spam messages daily.Â
Everything should be working fine now and let me know if there are any issues or advice on other plugins that are worth trying out.
Not sure if you've used it already, but have you tried Akismet? It is one of the most highly effective spam prevention tools with WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet
I have Askimet installed and it actually blocked 392 spams I had to delate today, but all that spam is eating up bandwidth. Additionally some of the spams are able to leak through which are really annoying to go and delete.
The Bad Behavior plug in is supposed to stop spam at its IP address thus saving bandwidth. Unfortunately I can't get it to work with the K2 three column theme. Hopefully they will have an updated plug in that hopefully will work with my site.
Did you contact the developer about the problem you're having? He may have a solution for you.
I tried some of the recommended troubleshooting tips but none of them worked. I guess I should just send him a message and see what he says.
This is why I moved to Media Temple…
Robert, I'm getting 300-400 spam messages daily, I can only imagine how many you must get hit with.