May 14, 2004
MT Template for monitoring comment spam
Posted by bopuc at May 14, 2004 10:04 PM
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)
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!
Posted by: UltraBob at May 17, 2004 06:41 AM
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
Posted by: randy at May 19, 2004 11:30 AM
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?
Posted by: Boris Anthony at May 19, 2004 03:59 PM
Hi Bob! Glad you think so. :)
Posted by: Boris Anthony at May 19, 2004 04:00 PM
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
Posted by: randy at May 23, 2004 11:36 AM
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.
Posted by: Joe Mullins at May 27, 2004 08:18 PM
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.
Posted by: Joe Mullins at May 27, 2004 08:21 PM
Joe, thanks! I knew that tag existed too... dang... :)
Posted by: Boris Anthony at May 27, 2004 09:10 PM