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Delete spam comments after three (3) days

Here is how to change Akismet interval to three (3) days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments, using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter in your WordPress functions.php

By Jan Reilink 09/12/2019WordPress

WordPress

Clean-up WordPress spam comments and meta data

How to delete WordPress spam comments and meta data with phpMyAdmin. A lot of WordPress spam comments and meta data will keep your WordPress database huge, and slows down your site. It's best to delete spam comments regularly, but if you're facing hundreds of thousands spam comments, here is how to delete them all in bulk.

By Jan Reilink 23/04/2014WordPress

WordPress

Block WordPress comment spammers manually

Learn to block WordPress comment spammers manually. The less spammers hit your WordPress blog, the better your blog performs, is one of my opinions. A second is, the less unnecessary plugins you use on your WordPress blog, the better. So, a little while ago I decided to remove plugins like Stop Spammer Registration Plugin and do its work myself. Here is why & how.

By Jan Reilink 30/11/2013WordPress

WordPress

Are you in my blocklist?

Is your IP address in my WordPress .htaccess block list? Here are IP addresses I block manually because of comment spamming.

By Jan Reilink 12/02/2023WordPress

Privacy Policy

Who we are Suggested text: Our website address is: http://demo.peregrine-themes.com/hester-blogger. Comments Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your…

Web application security

3 Ways of blocking sendmail.php on IIS webserver

Use IIS URL Rewrite Module and Request Filtering in IIS to block access to certain scripts. Sendmail.php for example. To prevent sending spam.

By Jan Reilink 08/12/2021Web application security

Web applications

Disable Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

How-to disable Joomla's built-in contact forms component and its ability to send a copy to the sender, directly in your MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.

By Jan Reilink 05/01/2021Web applications

WordPress

Count and display number of WordPress users in your Dashboard

WordPress widget plugin to display the number of registered users in your Dashboard.

By Jan Reilink 12/05/2020WordPress

Web application security

Protect WordPress from brute-force XML-RPC attacks

Secure WordPress against XML-PRC attacks. This post gives you some insights about how you can create an IP whitelist for xmlrpc.php, on Windows Server and Linux Apache (web.config and .htaccess). And how you can block access to xmlrpc.php file.

By Jan Reilink 02/06/2017Web application security

WordPress

Remove Jetpack email sharing service

Recently the WordPress Jetpack email sharing service is often abused by spammers. They use the Send to Email Address for sending spam. All these kind of "Tell a Friend" scripts are abused a lot. Here is how to disable email share service in Jetpack.

By Jan Reilink 19/05/2017WordPress

WordPress

Optimized WordPress hosting (9+ practical tips)

WordPress optimized hosting is a subject on which a lot is written about. And therefore, this post is not about where to host your WordPress blog, or who offers the best WordPress hosting. This post is for you developers, what you can do to optimize your WordPress hosting. This post is not about setting up high-availability, fail-over, clustering, IIS versus Nginx versus Apache, RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, different types of storage, and so on. It’s about solving performance issues.

By Jan Reilink 31/08/2016WordPress

WordPress

17+ Useful WordPress snippets

Here are 17+ valuable WordPress snippets for site-specific plugins and functions.php to provide you a better WordPress experience. Enhance your WordPress site with these small PHP snippets: WordPress filters, actions and functions. Quickly add or extend the functionality you need for your WordPress website! Read on...

By Jan Reilink 30/05/2016WordPress

PowerShell

PowerShell blacklist check script: find an IP address’ blacklist status & reputation

A blacklist check script written in PowerShell. You can use this to lookup an IP address in various blacklists (DNSBL, RBL). Such a check is a great indicator for an IP address' reputation. Basically this PowerShell blacklist checker is a port of my Bash script to check an IP address blacklist status in Linux.

By Jan Reilink 19/05/2016PowerShell

Windows Server

HackRepair.com’s Bad Bots .htaccess in web.config for IIS

Block bad bots in WIndows Server IIS using web.config. Learn to protect your WordPress website with this web.config file!

By Jan Reilink 19/02/2016Windows Server

WordPress

My WordPress web.config

Do you host your WordPress website on Windows Server IIS? And are you having trouble with your web.config? I often receive questions about how to use a web.config file in WordPress on Windows Server, and which settings are important for a WordPress site. Maybe it's because I'm a WordPress on Windows Server IIS enthusiast, so here is my web.config for your convenience (really, it's not that special).

By Jan Reilink 22/06/2015WordPress