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Disable WordPress comments (how-to)

When the WordPress comment option is abused by spammers, it becomes a real pain in the "@ss". With thousands spam reactions, disabling -and removing- WordPress comments is the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL database. As a bonus, I show you how to re-enable comments too!
02/01/2015Posted inWordPress
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How to clean up Contact Form 7 temporary captcha files on IIS web servers

Contact Form 7 is a WordPress plugin that provides a simple but flexible contact form. On IIS, Contact Form 7 captcha has one HUGE disadvantage: temporary captcha files placed in wp-content/uploads/wpcf7_captcha, are not automatically removed. The files are made read only. Here is how to remove Contact Form 7 temporary captcha files on IIS...
28/04/2014Posted inWordPress
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Grep for forensic log parsing and analysis on Windows Server IIS

How to use GnuWin32 ported tools like grep.exe and find.exe for forensic log file analysis in Windows Server. In this article I'll give some real live examples of using these ported GnuWin tools like grep.exe for logfile analysis on Windows servers. The article provides three example, as an alternative to LogParser, because finding spam scripts fast is often very important.
19/04/2013Posted inWeb application security
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Clean up WordPress post revisions

Every time you write or edit a WordPress post, WordPress saves the change as a post revision. As you might expect, this fills up your database with a huge amount of unneeded post revisions and information. This uses space which should be free space, the MySQL database becomes bloated. You can clean up these WordPress post revisions quite easily
14/01/2012Posted inWordPress