Housekeeping: New Contact Form and MyBlogLog

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 23rd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

With the holiday causing traffic to the site to taper off significantly, I took the opportunity to make some minor upgrades to site.

First, I modified the "Contact Plagiarism Today" page to use a new, much more simple, form. The form is still CAPTCHA protected, at least to a degree, but doesn’t require all of the information that the former contact form required.

This form was probably the number one complaint users had about the site and, hopefully, this will take care of it.

Second, I’ve added a plugin to include MyBlogLog icons in the comments. This comes along with a slight redesign of the comments themselves.

Let me know what you think of that feature. You can test it on any post with a decent amount of comments.

Finally, in a brief update to my previous posts about the trackback and comment spam attack. The attack has seemingly subsided some but I have had to remove Defensio as a plugin. It was causing reCAPTCHA to fail and that was resulting in at least a few comments escaping the spam filters.

For the moment, I am back using Akismet.

Let me know what you think of the new features and anything else that you think can be improved!

Jonathan Bailey is The Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today, which he founded in 2005 as a way to help Webmasters going through content theft problems get accurate information and stay up to date on the rapidly-changing field. He is also a consultant to Webmasters and companies to help them devise practical content protection strategies and develop good copyright policies.
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5 Responses »

  1. According to Aaron Stroud on November 23rd, 2007 at 8:56 pm:

    It looks good. Thanks for reminding me to sign up for MyBlogLog.

  2. According to Recording Studio on November 24th, 2007 at 5:28 am:

    Have signed up for MyBlogLog.

  3. According to JB on November 26th, 2007 at 7:18 pm:
    Aaron & RS: My goal wasn’t really to promote MBL. But hey, it is neat service and I’ve enjoyed using it. Glad to see you guys on board!
  4. According to Tiesto on December 6th, 2007 at 9:16 am:

    This is my first post after your modification. I think the new features are cool, obviously better than the previous.

  5. According to JB on December 6th, 2007 at 11:33 pm:
    Tiesto: It’s small progress at least. I’m glad you like it!

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