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Some blogs are receiving a lot of spam comments. One of the simplest ways to avoid wasting all time to cancel and mark as spam is to ban the IP. A nice plugin wrote by Lester Chan is WP-Ban

Features:
» Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name and referer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referer url trys to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recordered on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too.

Download:
» WP-Ban 1.40 For WordPress 2.7.x
» WP-Ban 1.31 For WordPress 2.5.x And 2.6.x
» WP-Ban 1.20 For WordPress 2.1.x To WordPress 2.3.x
» WP-Ban 1.00 For WordPress 2.0.x

Screenshots:
» http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/screenshots/browse/wp-ban/

Development:
» http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/

Translations:
» http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-ban/i18n/

Support Forums:
» http://forums.lesterchan.net/index.php?board=10.0

Brian KRAUSZ wrote a nice plugin called Custom-Taxonomies. The functions of this plugin are:

• Create custom taxonomies with admin-set names and slugs for posts, pages, or link
• Define whether or not to accept hierarchies, descriptions, multiple selections, and/or tag-style entry
• Manage each taxonomy’s terms in a full AJAX-interface
• Assign terms to posts, pages, and links just as you would with categories and tags
• Add widgets for your taxonomies into your site
• Edit taxonomy settings

You should check out the new versions as soon they are released .

I have recently discovered that in Wordpress 2.7 if you install the “Custom-Taxonomies” plugin this is disabling the simple way to add or remove the tags for a post .

Wordpress is the platform that I use on this blog. For a lot of reasons. First is because is user friendly and second because is very customizable even if the IT skills are low. Also a lot of themes are built every day. A site to visit is of course wordpress.org. There you can find the latest versions of wordpress. You will need some basic preparation to download and install awordpress blog. In the Downloads directory of this site you can dowload also the versions 2.5 and 2.7. I’ve left also the 2.5 version because some users prefer this one and not the last.

You can view also the other comments as Plugins and Themes. It is just an alternative for some tools that I use and I found useful.

Another site you should visit is wordpress.com. If you intend to test this platform this is the right way. Setup a free blog

on the Multi User platform and Happy Blogging. The setup procedure does not need any technical skills and is fast. When will have some post will have discovered if is what you expected.