Bit Matrix

If you are generating links to your blog articles via some other mechanism than Wordpress itself you usually have to use the guid database field. This is the unique global indentifier of the post. In reality it is not globally unique but only unique to your blog. Read more…

Databases, MySQL, Technical, apache, wordpress database, guid, MySQL, wordpress

Blog comment spam is an unfortunate reality of having a blog. See the chart to get a sense of how much spam comes in on a daily basis to one of my blogs that receives a moderate amount of traffic. The red line shows the 30-day moving average for the number of spam comments daily.

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Linux, Technical perl, script, spam, wordpress