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How to Disable Comments on All Images in WordPress

by John P.

WordPress has long had a major problem, that has yet to be solved by the development team. Namely, the fact that there is no way to globally disable commenting on certain types of posts or pages – most notably images and media files.

Spammers have been attacking blogs for a very long time and targeting image and media file attachment pages. If you wonder what I mean by that, click on the thumbnail image above. You’ll see that it takes you to a page with a bigger embedded version of the image. Normally, those pages allow you to leave comments (you’ll notice that here on OMB it doesn’t).
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Pods CMS Gets A Kickstart

September 15, 2011
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WordPress, you know it… you love it. But a big part of what makes WordPress so awesome is it’s ecosystem of passionate users, theme and plugin developers. In the case of theme and plugin developers, they’re essential to making it easy on the rest of us to get WordPress to do the things we want [...]

WordPress PLUGIN: Enable REL= and Other HTML in Author’s Field (for Google+ and Google Search Listings)

July 5, 2011
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Google is beginning to roll out the ability to have your Google Profile linked to search results. This is an awesome new feature that my friend Trey Ratcliff worked with them on setting up. Do a search for “HDR Tutorial” and you can see what I’m talking about. In attempting to get this working with [...]

The New WordPress User Association Launch

December 2, 2010
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I know that a lot of you have your own blog, and I’m willing to bet that the majority use WordPress to run it. So I’ve got some exciting news for you. Just yesterday we launched the new WordPress User Association to bring together resources and provide a place for those of us who use [...]

How Woopra Catches Drive-by Comment Spammers

November 20, 2010
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Today someone left the following comment: Now, it caught my eye for two reasons: They left a URL in the comment. I’m constantly on the lookout for that because I don’t want YOU guys (my real readers) to be subjected to spammy comments. They claim to be a long time reader who visits constantly.

One Week Till OpenCamp! Here’s a Little Video…

August 20, 2010

Well, we’re a week away from OpenCamp. Love it or hate it, OpenCamp has definitely impacted my ability to publish to my own blog. I’m looking forward to being done with all of that for a while so I can focus on my own projects again. That is not to say that I am not [...]

Tutorial: Manually Take WordPress Out of Maintenance Mode

August 4, 2010

Today while performing a WordPress upgrade on another blog the update failed! Grrr. If that wasn’t enough of a problem, when I checked the site it was stuck in “Maintenance” mode – meaning that no matter what you tried to do the only thing that showed up was a page telling you the site was [...]

Video Tutorial: Getting Started with WordPress

August 3, 2010
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Seems like I’ve been talking to more and more people lately who are just getting started with WordPress, so in order to put a few materials together for you so you don’t have to search all over the bloody internet I’ve compiled the following WordPress Video Tutorials. I consider all of these good enough that [...]

.CO Domains Launch and Here Are the GoDaddy Coupon Codes to Get ‘Em!

July 22, 2010

I have a lot of friends who have been trying very hard to come up with a really good or really specific domain name for a while without any luck. It seems like all the good ones are taken, doesn’t it? Well, if you are one of those people you need to know that there [...]

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