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Disable Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

05/01/202121/02/2023 Jan Reilink

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.

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Delete spam comments after three (3) days

09/12/201909/03/2023 Jan Reilink 4 Comments

Here is how to change the Akismet interval to three days instead of 15 days for deleting spam comments using the akismet_delete_comment_interval filter

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Remove Jetpack email sharing service

19/05/201721/02/2023 Jan Reilink 1 Comment

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.

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

19/05/201621/02/2023 Jan Reilink 6 Comments

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.

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Clean-up WordPress spam comments and meta data

23/04/201409/03/2023 Jan Reilink 1 Comment

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.

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Check IP address blacklist status in Bash

14/10/201108/03/2023 Jan Reilink 16 Comments

Bash script to check an IP address reputation status in several blacklists. I’ve added HttpBl as backlist and an API key is required for this list. Using this script in Bash you can quickly test if an IP address is blacklisted.

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