The StopForumSpam.com server has been out for the last 24 hours or so. I am now getting a 502 error when I check them. I have not found any references to it, but my Stop Spammer Registration plugin will slow down new registrations while it times out accessing the site. Anyone who has registered with [...]

I already found some things that I need to change, but I’ll wait a little for user feedback. Download the plugin at the WordPress repository: Exit Screen Plugin Let me know of any problems. The first one I found is that it kicks off on the back button. I have to figure out how to [...]

I have created a standalone version of the exit-screen plugin. You can download it here: Exit Splash Screen JavaScript Simply place the .js file on the root of your website and add the code below to invoke it somewhere near the bottom of your page. <script src=”/exit-screen.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> You will have to change the exit [...]

When you leave this page you will be confronted with a very annoying message that will ask you to confirm leaving the site. This is my new exit-screen-plugin. I am waiting for it to be approved for the WordPress repository, but I am guessing that it might be rejected, just based on the fact that [...]

The last release of Stop Spammers was released Monday. After a day and a half it was downloaded about 400 times. The donate link sends the user to Amazon where I can see the number of clicks. The Amazon stats are delayed a day or so. I carefully wrote, what I thought, was an earnest [...]

It is with great fear and apprehension that I released the 2.0 version of Stop Spammers. I spent all of last week with the debug option turned on. I installed and uninstalled several times. This morning I tested the way that spammers are cached and found what I think is a bug so I tweaked [...]

I’ve been working on this plugin for three weeks straight. It has grown quite a bit and is now one of my most complex plugins. I had to create a debug function to log errors. One by one I’ve been catching bugs. I hope to release it Monday or Tuesday of next week. I’ll let [...]

I moved my last domain off Hostgator today, and asked them to close my account. I still believe that, in general, hostgator is a decent hosting company, but I asked them twice to fix the problems with the server I was on and they pretty much denied it or ignored me. I wasn’t going to [...]

I released a new version of Stop Spammers this week, and then had to release a bug fix real fast, and today I had to release another bug fix. I checked the first version for over a week on 6 blogs before I released it. I did a quick check of the second release on [...]

My HostGator.com domains got slower and slower and have started moving them to another hosting company. I called three times so far and twice HostGator has fixed the problem only to have it reoccur. BlogsEye was one of the slowest. Now it is pretty spiffy. JT30.com, my oldest domain, was very slow, too. I’ve moved [...]