TL;DR: I wrote a small BuddyPress plugin to restore the "mark as spammer" link in the admin toolbar and add a "spammer" button to the activity stream's actions. You can grab it on GitHub. Here's the deal... I maintain a small BuddyPress site, and it gets hammered with spam … [Read more...]
How to do damn near anything with WordPress
A couple of the plugins listed here show up on Extend with warnings about not having been updated in the last two years. You can ignore those warnings. They haven't been updated because they were written correctly in the first place. Best Plugin for...? Great big list of best … [Read more...]
Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress
In chatting with a few people at WordCamp Phoenix about our various BuddyPress sites, the issue of spam user accounts came up several times. I'd just run into this problem myself on the VP Alumni site, and after cleaning out about 400 bogus users (all with usernames like … [Read more...]
