There are many times when we might need to know what IP address we are using. We at CharlesWorks use this information mostly for some Under Construction plugins. For example, to allow one to view a website that is using an Under Construction plugin without having to...
Spam Filtering
Dealing with Website Form and Comment Spamming
The spamming of web forms has grown tremendously over the past several years. Spamming forms is inevitable with any forms on websites. This has little or nothing to do with where your website is hosted. The problem The main problem is that even though it is, and has...
How to Turn Off Post or Page Comments
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...
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...
How to Show Site Visitor’s IP Address on WP Forms Output
The WP Forms plugin for WordPress is fairly popular and one of the plugins I like using for handle form inputs on websites. I especially like being able to tie in Google RECAPTCHA into it which greatly reduces form spam. Form spamming has become big business. Apps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How do I “train” the mail server to know what is and isn’t spam in my mailbox?
Contrary to popular belief, computers - especially mail servers - don't really "know" anything... Spam - unsolicited bulk commercial email - is a huge problem on the Internet. In the beginning of 2013, reports from some Internet providers indicated that spam accounted...