With WordPress 2.2 comes the introduction of the post preview link to replace the in-line preview that used to appear whenever you saved a post.
To me, being able to preview my posts is an essential part of blogging. This most recent feature seems counter-productive to me because:
Why would anyone want to register themselves as a user on a WordPress blog when it provides them with no benefit?
I’ve no doubt that the spam-like user registrations I’m currently getting to this blog are automated and are intended to be exploited in blogs that provide registered users with some form of publishing capability. Whilst these registered users don’t have the ability to do anything much here, I still get the notification emails that tell me someone has registered.
I currently use the excellent Spam Karma 2 as my anti-comment spam defence, but one missing feature is the ability to block unwanted registrations to my blog. I will probably just switch registrations off since they currently serve no useful purpose, but being able to intelligently block them would be handy especially those emanating from specific domains such as mail.ru.
I’m going to deactivate registrations, but should I wish to reactivate them in the future it would be nice to have something in place to prevent automated sign-ups.
Technorati Tags: Spam
Another reason why this blog might suck at the moment is the infrequent posting. I would like to spend more time on developing interesting content to share, but I’m currently preoccupied by a few things so I’ll just give anyone who’s interested a quick run down:
Fortunately, whilst a lot of my attention is focused on the above, the automated income streams I’ve got in place are still doing their thing even whilst I’m not. That, there dear reader, is the beauty of online passive income streams. You do the work once and you reap the rewards on a continual basis. You can take a break whilst your systems keep on working for you!
Technorati Tags: Residual Income, Passive Income, AIS, Affiliate Marketing, Text Link Ads
Stu’s posted 11 reasons why my blog might suck. I don’t think most apply (I’ll await his review of my blog before responding to the rest), but here’s my response to those that might.
Broke is probably the wrong word to use. Hammered would be better!
On the 9th April 2007, I wrote a piece about choosing Ubuntu over Microsoft Vista as a consumer operating system and it was referenced by a number of very popular Linux websites. The following 4 days saw a massive spike of visitors in my web statistics to the tune of over 7GB of bandwidth, over 20,000 visitors, and over 130,000 page views.
