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Are there any more ways in which a spammer can automatically submit comments? I’ve removed my wp-comments-post.php and even then there are just too many spam comments. My wordpress automatically catches those and its not a big problem but i’m just curious to find out how a person is able to submit comments ?

Kafkaesqui.. thanks for the pointer. I guess the smapper is sending a post request to wp-comments-post.php and since this page does not have statcounter code embedded, it does not show up in the logs.

bestfoot – thanks. i’ll try these plugins

I also use statcounter. There are options that let you find out which users came from search engines and who all came from other places.

I’ve also used sitemeter but find statcounter to be more feature rich (i am obviously referring to free versions of both).

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I also use statcounter (www.statcounter.com) and am very happy with it. It also let’s you have a hidden counter.

I’ve also tried sitemeter (www.sitemeter.com) but found statcounter had many more features.

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Okay never mind. It was a problem with the server. They restarted the email server and it got fixed

If your blog’s on public domain, why not use Google or Atomz or some other such search engine?
How about using Lucene. It can index database but this will require some work before it can be integrated to WP.

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To gallir:

Advantages?? I can put the static htmls on any webserver or even multiple webservers if i want with different look and feel.

And again, I completely agree with you about the features of WP :). Its just that i want something extra for my *peculiar* requirements!!

macmanx: Thanks for this. I’ll have a look at it. from whatever little i saw, it will still be on the same server. I guess i am expecting to much from a blogging system because i am used to bigger CMSes like vignette and interwoven where you can publish to multiple servers. So i was hoping i would be able to publish to my current blog as well as tripod ?? But thanks anyways. I’ll have a look at it. The other alternative i am looking at is to write some cron job which will ftp the WordPress XML feed to whichever server i want and then that server will have pages (phpm perl or even jsp) that will display this feed.

gallir: when i say static publish i understand that certain things like comments and user data will still be dynamic. Please have a look at blogspot and it will be more clear what i mean. The comments part is dynamic in blogspot but your blog entries are all static htmls.

>PS: I really don’t understand your reasoning. WP gives you lot of nice and useful features, WP-Cache

I have never even once argued against those features. Infact i agree with you and that is why i moved to WP from blogger. All i am saying is that it would have been GREAT if i had the ability to publish static pages. Even in static publishing, i could use all those features that you mentioned and got the advantage of publishing to multiple blogs – one optimized for big screens and another one for PDAs. I know there are alternatives but the case in point is the ability to publish to multiple destinations.

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I think one can always debate this but the fact remains that static pages served by apache will any day be faster than any sophisticated cacheing engine.
This apart, it also gives me an advantage to publish the same blog to multiple servers, using different themes (if i want). Repurposing of content, if you will ??

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