Behind WordPress

Using Trackbacks

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jay Fortner

Trackbacks are kind of new to me, I’ve known of their existence and used them for quite some time but never really paid any attention to them. Until recently when I was working on a WordPress blog cleaning comments of spam and preventing further spam. We already had Akismet for WordPress installed, which is a must, but the spam wasn’t being managed properly so I began my investigation. The majority of the spam came through trackbacks. Since the blog also displayed these trackbacks without being moderated the blog became a link farm for spammers. The trackbacks accounted for 70% of the spam.

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Writing an Object Oriented WordPress Plugin

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Jay Fortner

I often download plugins to look at the code hoping I’ll learn something from the developers methods and coding style. Often I find myself frustrated reading through poorly written plugins. It’s not that they’re bad developers, they just haven’t focused enough on alternative coding styles and refining how they go about programming their plugins. Here’s a quick step-by-step on how I write my WordPress Plugins hoping to influence other developers.

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