Tech Tips & Tricks

Antispam Bee: A Very Good WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin

I finally found a good WordPress anti-spam plugin that is free and does not get affected by caching plugins. Try to look for anti-spam plugins int he WordPress admin console and the first few results given to you are not really free.

Sure, they list it as free but once you start using it, it gets problematic and they do not really work flawlessly. Later on, you will find out that the free version is actually crap and you need to buy the license in order to get the plugin working.

Antispam Bee however, is TOTALLY free and straightforward. Just add, install and activate. That’s it!

The plugin itself has quite a number of options to make it flexible according to your choosing. However, if you want to go for the default settings, they still work the way you want it to: block unnecessary comments.

Even if you are using caching plugins it won’t get affected.

Easy and extremely productive spam-fighting plugin with many sophisticated solutions. Try it!

Don’t Upgrade To WordPress 3.8!

This was a mess. I did not expect WordPress 3.8 to slow down my blog site. As in literally! The admin console takes too long to load and so do my blog posts.

I tried to look in the web for a solution but it seems people are blaming the hosting provider or possible WordPress plugins. Unbelievable!

Everything was in good condition until I pressed that update button. And it is quite a hassle downgrading so it totally sucks. If you have not upgraded to WordPress 3.8, DON’T!!!

Sure, the visuals look appealing but who surfs the web in their phones in the first place? Just go download the WordPress app.

If you upgrade to WordPress 3.8, it will be hell for you. Load time is slow and you will see connection timed out messages quite often especially while you compose a new post.

Now my monetization chances are getting slimmer because if the advertiser sees your site as loading at a snail pace, they will ignore your website.

So if you are still with version 3.7, stick with it! It won’t hurt you.

JQuery Form Plugin Easily Binds To HTML Forms

So what is with a little Javascript library, right? Even though it is not hard work to go around to using forms in Javascript, using JQuery Form plugin enables me to gain access to my form after simple Ajax calls.

The main methods, ajaxForm and ajaxSubmit, gather information from the form element to determine how to manage the submit process. Both of these methods support numerous options which allows you to have full control over how the data is submitted.

Their site says it is extremely useful for sites hosted in low cost web hosting providers with limited features and functionality. But even so, JQuery‘s simplistic approach and flexibility created this awesome plugin that enabled me not to have to code on doing Ajax calls the traditional way.

Say, you have this HTML form.

Simply initialize your form when the DOM is ready. Once the form is submitted, you can get what is returned from the server. Easy, right?!