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L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3: Option to follow trackback immediately.


Update

I’ve moved on to other things. These plugins are no longer supported.

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I’ve updated L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3. Sort of. It turned out the plugin already worked for WP 2.3. However, I did make a two mods at user request:

  1. Josh Spaulding requested the ability to dofollow trackbacks immediately. That function now exists.
  2. Tricia identified a bug that appeared to sometimes occur when people left “names” with apostrophe (that is “‘”) in them. I think I coded corrected.

If you’d like the new version, download Linky Love for WP 2.3. Unzip. Place in plugin folder. Deactivate the old version, activate this one.

If you notice any problems, let me know so I can fix. :)

A word or caution
Trackback spam can be particularly pesky. I have seen a rash of semi-innocent looking scraper blogs that post snippets of your content. I call these Daegan Spam. If you keep those trackbacks and visit later, you will notice the blogs get redirected to irrelevant thin-affiliate sites for commercial products. This causes you to link into a “bad neighborhood”, which is a bad thing.

I’m planning a tool to help us find these things months later, “just in case”, but haven’t thought through the best way to do it yet.

Meanwhile, be very vigilant about trackback spam. When in doubt delete.

In the “irony” department

I found a bug in “Hide Sponsored Categories Plugins” for 2.3. It only happens for categories that have apostrophe’s in their name. I have such a category. It’s the one for “L’s Linky Love!” So, I’m currently running the old version. Needless to say, I’ll be fixing that bug! :)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 12:04 pm and is filed under Blogging, L'sLinkyLove, My Plugins, Plugins, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3: Option to follow trackback immediately.”

  1. Josh Spaulding says:
    October 31, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    Thanks alot for helping me, and others, out with this :) LLL was already great, but now it’s just awesome.

    You’re right about the trackback spam. I’m seen these moron’s blogs. I think it’s important to keep a very close eye on these and all comments. For those who don’t, probably shouldn’t use the new option.

    Thanks again, much appreciated! You’ll be seeing a trackback coming in yourself in a few hours.

    Josh

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