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I just installed the WP Ajax Edit Comments WordPress plugin. Mainly what I was looking for in this plugin was a way for commenters to edit their posts after writing their comments. But it has a lot of other nice bells and whistles too.

Since I installed NoSpamNX, I get far fewer comment spams in my Akismet spam box… like 5 per day and they are all from the one spammer who has so far figured his way around the plugin. The plugin blocks about 100 comment spams per day.

Now there are so few spams in my comment spam box that it’s possible for me to review them by hand weekly. Today I found a false positive in the Akismet comment spam pile. This would have been impossible without NoSpamNX.

If you have a WordPress blog, you should install NoSpamNX. No, wait. If everyone does it, then the spammers will all write smarter bots that get around this defense. So… umm, everyone use a different method! Don’t use NoSpamNX. This one will be used only on my site!

I’ve been using the Smart Archives plugin for a year to make a pretty and complete archive page for the site.

I just switched to Smart Archives Reloaded (author’s site). It works just as well and now updating my posts is much faster. The way the original Smart Archives plugin works, when you click “Publish” in WordPress, the user has to wait until the new archives page is generated before continuing. Now it’s done in the background. A 20 second wait is  now 5 seconds :-)

Thanks to the magic of open source, a really good plugin has been made even better :-)

I just installed the NoSpamNX comment spam plugin. Hopefully it will reduce the daily drudgery of me deleting all the inane comment spam I get. Each week I have to remove 5-20 spams that make it through Akismet. And I have 1,500 comment spams that Akismet caught from the last 15 days sitting in my spam box.  Hopefully that number will decrease.

No really. Apparently I logged my one millionth visitor on the blog (according to WordPress Stats) just last month or so.

Joyness

I’m addicted. I know. Here are the plugins currently in use on my site, running WordPress 2.7.1:

1. Akismet (v. 2.2.3) by Matt Mullenweg.
2. Brian’s Latest Comments (v. 1.5.10) by Brian Meidell.
3. Brians Latest Comments widget (v. 1.0) by Carsten Albrecht.
4. DB Cache (v. 0.6) by Dmitry Svarytsevych.
5. DoFollow (v. 4.0) by Kimmo Suominen.
6. Exec-PHP (v. 4.9) by Sören Weber.
7. FLV Embed (v. 1.2.1) by Yaosan Yeo.
8. Google XML Sitemaps (v. 3.1.2) by Arne Brachhold.
9. Hyper Cache (v. 2.2.3) by Satollo.
10. No Adverts for Friends (v. 0.1a) by Donncha O Caoimh.
11. Plugins list (v. 1.0) by Davide Benini.
12. Recent Posts (v. 1.1.3) by Nick Momrik.
13. Related Posts (v. 2.02) by Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.
14. Search Everything (v. 5) by Dan Cameron.
15. Search Excerpt (v. 1.2 $Rev$) by Scott Yang.
16. Site Statistics (v. 1.7) by Fauzi Mohd Darus.
17. Smart Archives (v. 2.0) by Justin Blanton.
18. Subscribe To Comments (v. 2.1.2) by Mark Jaquith.
19. Twitter Tools (v. 1.6) by Alex King.
20. Wordbook (v. 0.14.5) by Robert Tsai.
21. WordPress.com Stats (v. 1.3.7) by Andy Skelton.
22. WP-PageNavi (v. 2.40) by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
23. WP FancyZoom (v. 1.1) by Stephen Granade.