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Fixing Page Size Issues Caused by Jetpack for WordPress

Recently when analyzing my own web site I discovered that the pages sizes on my web site were coming in at around 1.2 MB to 1.5 MB total in size. These page sizes completely shocked me! I don’t use an overabundance of graphics, nor did I consider my content to be extremely heavy, so I was a little concerned about what was causing the increased bloat. So, to begin, I started looking at the possible culprits, and worked to identify what was causing the insanely high page sizes, and I encountered a shocking find. A single plugin was contributing to the shocking page sizes, and that plugin was Jetpack for WordPress.

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Subscriptions Now Enabled!

As I have seen the audience and traffic grow for this web site, I have wanted the ability to better stay in touch and inform visitors and readers of new articles, updates, and other news. Therefore, I have enabled subscriptions.

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Fighting WordPress Comment Spam with a Nonce
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Fighting WordPress Comment Spam with a Nonce

In addition to blocking the comment spam bots that don’t include a HTTP_REFERER header indicating the request came from your web site, as indicated in a previous posting Fight Back Against WordPress Comment Spam with a HTTP_REFERER Check, additional steps can be taken to combat comment spam. This post will discuss the addition of a nonce field to your comment form that verifies the request came from your web site and not from somewhere else.

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Fight Back Against WordPress Comment Spam with a HTTP_REFERER Check
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Fight Back Against WordPress Comment Spam with a HTTP_REFERER Check

For those that use WordPress, comment spam is a huge problem. There are lot of good ways to combat comment spam, and many plugins that help with the issue; however, they don’t always stop the spammer before they submit the comment, and generally rely on categorization into appropriate areas for further moderation or removal. I decided to leverage the following Apache rewrite directives that take advantage of the HTTP_REFERER header to ensure that comment submissions are actually originating from my web site.

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Disabling or Limiting Post Revisions in WordPress
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Disabling or Limiting Post Revisions in WordPress

One of the great features that WordPress has to offer its users is revision management. WordPress will automatically create a new revision every time you save a post, or whenever you preview it. For most WordPress installations, controlling revisions will not be required, and they won’t require maintenance. For larger sites, or sites that are very space constrained, you can limit or disable the revision management functionality of WordPress.

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