May 14, 2004 22:04 | WebBlogging

MT Template for monitoring comment spam

As the title says, here is an MT Template which gives you a nice RSS 2.0 (don't start with me!!!) feed of your blog's comments, complete with handy dandy links to your MT admin and MT-Blacklist interface for quickly identifying comment spam and getting rid of it:

  • Despam via MT-Blacklist
  • Edit the entry (to quickly be able to delete multiples
  • Edit the comment (you may just want to remove something as opposed to the whole thing)
  • Use MT-Blacklist to show all comments from this commenter's IP (for spam floods from the same IP)

Cheers

Instructions:
In MT, go to Templates, Create a new template, call it something like "Comment feed", name the output file something original (if you don't want the world to find it...), copy and paste the above template, change the link paths to reflect your particular setup (and if you don't have MT-Blacklist you can remove the lines which link to it), save. Voila.

Normally I'd write much better documentation but hey... it's pretty self evident... and I'm tired... and ashamed to only be sharing this with y'all now as I've been using it for months... ;)

Comments

Nice! Thanks for posting that, it is a great addition!


Boris: Thanks for this info, but I'm a little dense. I saved the zip file, unzipped, and see two files: comspam.xml, and ._comspam.xml.

Er, now what? I can open the first file in an ASCII viewer, but what do I do with the second file. Please advise, thanks - Randy


Er, no idea what that second file is. Probably some weird file OS X creates. Ignore it.

You DO know how MT templates work right?


Hi Bob! Glad you think so. :)


Hi Boris. Yes, I know how MT templates work, at least most of the time! :-) I'll try again later today, ignoring the second file, and see what happens, and report back. Thank you - Randy


Great little feed template. But you might want to substitute

http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/

for

instead. Then it's just a cut and paste thing.


Great little feed template. But you might want to substitute

http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your/mt/

for

<$MTCGIPath$>

instead. Then it's just a cut and paste thing.

note: sorry about the previous post. It ate the tag.


Joe, thanks! I knew that tag existed too... dang... :)