Episode 18: Essential WordPress Plugins
This week the Faceoff boys talk about 13 WordPress plugins as well as alternatives to using a CAPTCHA to detect nasty robots.
News and Follow-Ups
- 00:39 – Feedstitch – Ep 16 we talked about feed stitch, Patrick Reagan Says: find the list at the bottom of a group page
Webapps
- 01:30 – Online Font Converter – Convert to other font formats
- 03:02 – Nest Unclutterer – Goes through your followers and clears out the cruft
- 06:55 – Print Friendly – Put in a URL and get a smart print friendly view
- 11:40 – Clixpy – Record user actions including: moving the mouse, typing clicking and scrolling
May 29th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Some of those captcha alternatives are great! Also, I didn’t know about some of those wordpress plugins.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Yeah those captcha alternatives really were interesting to me as well. CAPTCHAs are so easy, but so expensive for users.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 am
This isn’t a WordPress plugin but it goes with the theme. I ripped out the comments form on my blog and replaced it with a Flash app that submits right into the database. Now I can take out the comments.php file which bots use to inject comment spam.
The downside is I don’t know of any way to easily install this. It would take someone who knew HTML pretty well and could upload all the AMFPHP files. It’s all pretty easy but not for the novice. The upside is that I haven’t had a single comment spam submission. Glory be!
http://polygeek.com/1431_flex_rip_blog_spam_comments
You have to scroll down to the bottom of the comments to see the ‘comment app’. Oh, don’t forget to turn on the sound. It’s cool but gets annoying real fast.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Oh good idea to shut down comment spam. Truth is though I’ve never had a problem with comment spam using akismet but this stops the hassle of having to log in and clean out the spammy comments once and awhile.