Keeping your site cleared of spam comments will also allow it to operate more efficiently. Getting spam comments has nothing to do with your web hosting. It has to do with setting up what is necessary to mitigate the spammers. This will help immensely with keeping...
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Dealing with “Reply To:” issues in WordPress form outputs
Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
Web Maintenance Explained
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are "all set". Many think they don't have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that needs to happen and...
Adding Akismet comment spam protection
Akismet provides a convenient and free way to protect your personal or non-profit WordPress site or blog from spam. Many times we'd like to allow comments to be left on our WordPress site. The hassle with this can be the tremendous amounts of spam that come through...
SEO Scammers
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer's SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot of...
Common Bitcoin Phishing Message from online Scammers
The lost revenue to individuals and companies responding to and falling prey to these phishing messages is enormous. We in the web field lose considerable amounts of time that we could be working on websites answering queries about such matters. It is obviously part...
Acquiring reCAPTCHA API codes
Spamming continues to be one of the top issues on the Internet. There is no way currently to eliminate spam, so we are all really stuck figuring out ways to mitigate it as much as possible. Fortunately, Google provides a free reCAPTCHA system that anyone with a Google...
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Spam Email Tutorial
Log in to your mail account on the mail server securely at https://mega.charlesworks.com: To mark an email as spam, right click on the mail item you want to flag as spam, then select Actions > Mark > Spam NOT SPAM NOTE: If you: flagged something as spam...
Google Mail (GMail) Trusted Senders
In many cases, email sent from forms in WordPress on does not make it to the Inbox of Google GMail addresses. Note: Unfortunately, we at CharlesWorks do not have any control over how Google or any other email provider chooses to filter email on their systems. If the...