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All right, so you’ve got a blog. Expect spam disguised as comments. Here’s how you block the comment, trackback and pingback spam.
- If you use WordPress and you don’t have it already, get the free Akismet WordPress plugin and install it.
- Get your Akismet API key (they are free too)
- Enable the Akismet plugin
- Hold any post containing a URL. Go to your WordPress Dashboard, click Settings, Click Discussions.
- Under Comment Moderation, set the count of links to zero (post contains [ ] or more links).
- Under Comment Blacklist, add a fairly standard list of words contained in spam posts.
- Read this guide at WordPress.com about combating spam.
After you take these steps, we’re going to look at the top three WordPress plugins you can install that will help block spam.
Continue readingI found a theme for WordPress that I like. To give my site a consistent look and feel, I am utilizing the theme contained in the WordPress themes folder throughout my site which includes close to 800 HTML pages of technical tutorials. Utilizing one set of stylesheets minimizes the workload and increases the consistency of the appearance of the site. Update the WordPress CSS files and the rest of the site changes to match. One of the challenges I face is that the static HTML page portion of the InetDaemon.Com site is relatively large. As I said earlier, InetDaemon.Com has over 800 pages–and it is still growing. I can’t possibly change all the files by hand in a timely manner. Thus, an automated process is called for.
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Purple Clover at Sunrise
I took another walk at sunrise recently and took my backup camera, a Canon Rebel XTi and my 70-300 f4.5. I stepped out of the car, took three steps, crouched down and shot this. The clover was still covered in morning dew fog drifted over the ground and the sun was warm and golden.
The early morning and evening hours around sunrise and sunset are best for taking warm, gold-tinted pictures. The sun is less direct and softer, being diffused by the atmosphere, giving a warm honeyed glow to your subject. That’s why experienced photographers refer to the hour after sunrise and before sunset the ‘honeylight’. When shooting pictures like this, it helps to have the sun shining not quite directly behind you.
The sharp foreground and blurry background are created by shooting with the camera lens set to its largest F-stop (in this case 4.5) and a longer exposure which lets in more light and results in what you see here. The clumps of clover in the foreground and background aren’t really as close as they appear in this image. Using a longer lens in this case resulted in creating an image that this was a large field of clover, when in fact it was just a patch of tall grass and weeds.
I got a few more that morning and I’ll post those images when they are ready.