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Category: Blogger

  • how to prevent WordPress blog SPAM?

    As long as I blogged with Blogger.com, blog SPAM never was a serious issue. Now with my self-hosted WordPress blog(s), that became a very serious issue all of a sudden. Yes, I should just not worry, and just reserve a small weekly (or maybe daily) time-window for moderating the comments – yes, I enforced strict moderation anyway. But I find the moderation requests through e-mail rather destracting. Right now, when I expressed this, I wondered, whether I can prevent these e-mail messages. And yes, I can. I browsed for the available settings within “Discussion Settings”, and “E-mail me whenever” looked appropriate; I unset all of the options listed there. What a relief!

    Yes, I did not have this kind of SPAM with Blogger.com, because I only accepted comments from some kind of registered users. And there is no obvious way, how to do this easily with my self-hosted WordPress site. I certainly don’t want to enforce and allow registration on my WordPress site. I think, a while ago “OpenID” was considered sort of good for this kind of matter. Maybe during my further future WordPress studies I shall find out, what to do.

  • where does all the SPAM comments on my new self-hosted WordPress blog come from?

    My last blog (in English) powered by blogger.com never attracted as much SPAM comments, as my new self-hosted WordPress blog has done within just the last couple of days. I wonder, how the spammers get attracted. Is my blog on a list at WordPress.org?

    Well, it’s actually not that terrible, because comments on my blog articles only make it to the blog through moderation, but still – I keep getting quite a few moderation request e-mails that way.

  • WordPress vs Blogger: posting an article on the fly

    When adding an article on the fly with Blogger.com I always missed being able

    • to add a category
    • and also to manipulate the posting date+time.

    With WordPress’s Press_This I can at least add categories (and tags).

    Alright Quick Edit is not as far away as well. But I would really like to be able to also assign a posting date+time to the new article, that is far outside office hours. We always post article only far outside office hours, don’t we?!!

  • how do I get the articles on my Blogger blogs fed automatically into my Google+ profile?

    networkedblogs.com does this job for feeding my articles into my Facebook and my Twitter feed / stream.

    I prefer my Blogger blogs as my primary “article lists” (or “bookmark lists“) because of various reasons, e.g.

    • the flexible way of adding / removing / changing labels / categories,
    • the staged way of publishing articles (I can leave them in the Draft state for a while, until I am satisfied with them resp. their categories),
    • …

  • testing the NetworkedBlogs blog-2-facebook gateway

    I wonder, whether this will work.

    NetworkedBlogs.com is the Facebook app, that does the “blog to Facebook” transfer.

    The idea is, to finally reduce the number of articles on this blog shown on “my Facebook” by labeling an article with a certain label, and NetworkedBlogs.com would only see the articles from an RSS “sub-feed”.

    The NetworkedBlogs Facebook app takes

    • a “Blog Link”
    • and also a “Feed Link”.
    The Blog Link itself can be restricted on a particular label (like “show-on-Facebook”), the Feed Link can not, as described below.

    On the RSS XML

    • each blog article corresponds to an entry element,
    • each entry element has a couple of category sub-elements, corresponding to the article’s labels,
    • the label being the value of the term attribute of a category element.
    There are no such sub-feeds on Blogger.com (itself).
    It shouldn’t be that difficult to create a filter to provide such sub-feeds, but right now my duties do not allow me to work on this. I am sorry.
    That filter would just pass through all 1st level sub-elements (actually sub-trees), just restricting the entry sub-elements on those, that have a category sub-element with term=”show-on-Facebook” (e.g.).

  • switched to the new Blogger interface for now

    Either I did not see the features, that I 100% expect, last time, that I tried it, or they were not there. But today it just looks a little strange, but not bad. I give it a try.

  • removed the Labels gadget from this blog, so that it loads faster

  • How do I change the name of a label in a Blogger blog? – Blogger Help

    How do I change the name of a label? – Blogger Help

  • Can I use keyboard shortcuts while posting on a Blogger blog article? – Blogger Help

    Can I use keyboard shortcuts while posting? – Blogger Help

    I do experience problems (that I reported about) with the “control + shift” combinations.

  • is it worth migrating from Blogger to WordPress?

    WordPress 3.2 brings Zen editing to blogging – The H Open Source: News and Features

    Google recently announced to discontinue Google Health.

    Having this in mind, shouldn’t I migrate to more reliable services on a long-term basis for my blogging and address DB platfoms?