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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Denying comment posting on no referrer requests


Comment spam isn't a security risk, but a boring reality for every blogger. Sure, the Akismet plugin is very good at avoiding spam, but what about preventing spam instead of simply putting it in a specific queue?

Getting ready

In this recipe, I'm going to show you how to block comment postings to no referrer requests. This hack consists of looking up the referrer (the page from where the comment posting request comes) and blocking it, if the request doesn't come from your blog.

Most spammers don't even go to your blog to post their spam comments, they use a dedicated script or software to do it. As the request comes from a specific script instead of your blog, the following codes will block the spam comments.

How to do it...

There are two different ways to achieve exactly the same goal, which is blocking spam comment posting. The first method uses an .htaccess file and rewrites rules, and the second uses PHP. They're both great in my opinion, so...