Another days goes by and there’s SPAM all over the place.
Have you ever got tired of deleting all of those SPAM? Well, I’ve found a cure!
It eliminates all the SPAM and I don’t have to see it anymore. No more deleting or editing the SPAM comments. I’ve found this great plugins that works with WordPress and some other platform like phpBB, vBulletin, SMF, Typepad etc.

Igor Berger is the author of the plugins and he is the president of IVB IT SOLUTIONS . He has created this wonderful plugins called PHSDL ™ that will remove all the SPAM in your comments. For example, If the posting message is flaged with a SPAM domain, the poster is redirected to Project Honeypot Spam Domains Hot List with a warning that the Spammer domain has been caught! So it will not appear in our blog SPAM list. That makes my life much more easier. No more SPAM to delete, it’s just not there to be deleted.
You can give it a try here. Just put any of the domain listed in the Project Honeypot Spam Domains Hot List in your comment here and you’ll see what I mean.

To find out more about this technology and how it can help you, you can visit the PHSDL ™ documentation page. This page will tell you where and how you can get it and install it at your own sites. And if you used it, please put a link to PHSDL ™ in your footer, like I did.
Because I’m using it and it shows my support to the wonderful plugins.

*** UPDATE ***

If you’re using a WordPress blog and would like to use this plugins at you blog, you can mail me your request here at admin@JunkieYard.Com but if you’re not using a WordPress blog then you can mail your request to the PHSDL Admin at the PHSDL ™ documentation page. And please include your blog URL where you want the plugins to be installed in your mail.

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SezWho? Have any of you ever heard of this one? You can get it here if you want it. http://sezwho.com/

What is SezWho

SezWho enables content ratings, universal contributor profiles, and reputation-weighted content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards, user reviews, or any other place where readers and contributors interact. SezWho works with most social media platforms and it does not replace the site.s comment system or host any site content.

Readers can discover relevant and credible content, contributors gain a web-wide recognition for their efforts, and site owners can drive traffic while engaging their community.

SezWho was launched in October 2007 and is currently tracking millions of conversations across thousands of sites.

Just thought I would give it a try. Let’s see if it does what it says it will. And if any of you ever used it and have something to say about it, just leave your comment here. Is this thing useless or does it really do what it says it will.

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As some of you might have noticed that we’re currently using the Popularity Contest plugins for WordPress by Alex King . There’s been a lot of controversial issues about this plugins compatibility with WordPress 2.5 and above. Some says that it could not be activated when you’re using the latest version of WordPress 2.5.1 and some says it gave a fatal error message after they have upgraded their WordPress.

The plugins author himself has noted that this plugins is boken in WordPress 2.5 and has a compatiblility issues with WordPress version 2.5 and above. You can read the "WordPress 2.5 Plugin Compatibility " page at the author’s website. He says that a fix has been found but it’s not released yet I think.

I’ve been searching for the fix to make the plugins work with WordPress 2.5.1 and finally found a way to make it works. I’ve found a blog somewhere (I forgot where I found it) and it says something about editing the plugins file and change the code in it and create a new table for the plugins. That won’t work if you’re a first time user of the plugins because the plugins will trigger an error saying that it can’t find the table for the plugins. But if you’re previously using the plugins and upgraded your WordPress then that method will work for you.

So, here’s a solutions that I’ve found. This will only work if you’re using WordPress 2.5 and above and never used the plugins before and it required you to have access to your phpMyAdmin to create a new table for the plugins. Now, log in to your phpMyAdmin and execute this command to create the table manually. BACKUP your database table first and always create a BACKUP of your database before you change anything.

CREATE TABLE `wp_ak_popularity_options`
(
`option_name` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL
, `option_value` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE `wp_ak_popularity`
(
`post_id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `total` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `feed_views` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `home_views` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `archive_views` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `category_views` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `single_views` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `comments` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `pingbacks` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `trackbacks` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL
, `last_modified` DATETIME NOT NULL
, KEY `post_id` ( `post_id` )
)

Please NOTE that if you’re using a table PREFIX other than the default WordPress table PREFIX then you have to change the table PREFIX to your custom PREFIX. This code is for the default WordPress PREFIX "wp_" and after you’ve successfully created the database table then you just activate the plugins and it will works like a charm.

And this method is used if you’re previously using the plugins and upgraded your WordPress to version 2.5 and above. You need to edit the plugins file and make some change in it. Now, find this code in the plugins file.

if (!isset($wpdb)) {
require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’);
akpc_init();
}

And change it to this one.

if (!isset($wpdb)) {
require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);
akpc_init();
}

Then re-activate your plugins. It works for me.

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