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Here’s a few steps you can do to protect against some of the spambots:

Master-SpamBot IP, deny this!
[found via weblogtoolscollection]

There’s new bulletin board software in town…

bbPress
From Matt, the maker of WordPress - comes bbPress.

JD just sent me this link to his site:

Script to rename your wp-admin folder.
As he says - it’s not a foolproof method to protect your site, but certainly not a bad idea.

UploadBin
Kind of like pastebin - but for files, and Mark offers it up so you can download and host it on your own server.

wp-hashcash
A version of Spam Stopgam Extreme.
[seen on a lot of sites, but most recently on PhotoMatt and Weblogtoolscollection]

WordPress “Suggest” plugin
Kind of like “Google’s Suggest” feature - for WordPress Searches.
[blogginpro]

WP-lists Plugin
Centralized List management (through wordpress?)
[blogginpro]

The WP-Gallery Plugin 0.1 offers a nice, easy way to include your Gallery albums and photos within a WP powered blog.

Earlier this week, the 1.2.2 version of WordPress was released. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues and is recommended for all 1.2 users. More about the upgrade in the WP Development blog. Wondering what files changed? Here’s a list.

The last time I did any extensive web dev on the mac was about… oh, maybe SIX! years ago. Eek, I feel old. In any case, I’ve been doing everything on the PC since then, and while I have a number of really great tools on the PC that I like, I’m clueless when it comes to mac tools.

On the PC, the tool that I use the most is Dreamweaver. Not so much for it’s “WYSIWYG” feature, that doesn’t work too well for me, but it does auto-complete HTML tags, it knows php functions and can tell me what data types I have to pass in, does code highlighting. I even use it to make my stylesheets, because I can get it to pull up the “correct” way to write out a style definition if I forget (which is often).

So what tools do I need to do development on the Mac? I’ve downloaded a trial copy of Westciv Stylemaster which seems to give me what I need for writing stylesheets. I have BBEdit, but it doesn’t do the auto-complete stuff like dreamweaver does (of if it DOES, I can’t find it!).

Cany anyone make some recomendations? (Post in the comments please)

There’s a pretty serious security bug with WP 1.2.1 (and the current 1.3 alpha), one that can make it so your blog is basically unusable (not permanently, as far as I can tell) but still - if you’re using WordPress you should probably make this change.

In any case, here is how you fix the problem. It’s a very easy fix. If you can search for text on a page, you can fix this problem.

I hesitated posting this, because I don’t want to “start a panic” - nor do I want to give instructions on how to hack WP blogs. But I do think it’s important that people go ahead and make this change.

[brought to my attention by Christine]

Need to bookmark this so I can find it again…

QuickTabPrefToggle
Adds some great preferences/options relating to tabs, etc. (for example, can force links that would ordinarily open in a new window in a tab in the background.

The author of that extension also has a few others too that look interesting. Here’s the extensions homepage

Just saw this on the hackers mailing list:

User Comments Plugin
This plugin will moderate comments from users who are not registered and logged in users of the site.