This blog is powered by WordPress. I composed most of the posts using the offline blog editor Microsoft Live Writer.
I have run into several “pain points”. Below is my wish list of blogging software improvements:
- This blog receives hundreds of comments each day. A lot of these comments are spams. I would like to have a MS Outlook type of UI, which allows me to search comments by “email address”, “subject”, etc., and then bulk select and delete the spam comments. The default Word Press comment system don’t let me to bulk select comments to delete. I’ve to click on the text box in front of each comment. Lately, I’ve moved my comments to Disqus, but the same issue applies. I still cannot easily search, bulk select and delete spam comments.
- I selected the default Permanent Link URL structure when I started this blog last September – this means my post has URL such as https://www.geekmba360.com/?page_id=412. I soon learned that I would get much better search engine results if the permanent link URLs have specific description words, instead of the numbers. However, since my site articles have been linked by a number of external sites, I’m really hesitant to change my Permanent URL structure because it will break all of the existing links to my sites. I could set up “301 re-direct”, but it will still involves a lot of manual work to re-direct the requests to the correct pages. I’ve made a lot of the posts since this blog was launched. I would love to be able to change my Permanent link structure for new posts while preserve all of my existing post URLs. I have not seen such a plug-in/software.
- Occasionally, I make changes/updates to old posts. As the number of posts have been growing, sometime it’s pretty tedious for me to find specific posts. MS Live Writer provides “filter”, but it’s not sufficient. What I need is the ability to search all my previous posts by attributes such as “title”, “subject”, etc”, and locate these posts.
If you know any tool that addresses my pain points, let me know. Otherwise, I’m calling all of the current and aspiring entrepreneurs out there to create these tools to make life easier for fellow bloggers – who knows, you might make some good money along the way. 🙂
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Cerebral Barbedwire // Mar 4, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I feel your pain, especially with spammers. It's so tedious to blog and make an effort to respond to comments when I have to delete so many spam comments.
Unfortunately, I do not know of any software that can help with your needs.
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2 Freeman // Mar 15, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I am using this Math Comment Spam Protection plugin for my Chinese blog, and I found the plugin works very great to stop spams:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/math-commen…
3 Nitin // Mar 24, 2009 at 2:17 am
You do make a point.
WordPress go gets spam comments like shit.
In between I had turned commenting option off…but then It led to some other problems.
Do let me know if you find a solution
4 GeekMBA360 // Mar 24, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Nitin,
The Math Comment plugin is pretty good — it asks the commenter to complete a simply math question (e.g. “2+4= “) before letting the commenter to enter any text. It's recommended by fellow blogger Freeman. You should give it a try. I've exported all of my comments from WordPress to Disqus — it's a 3rd-party hosted comment platform. So far, I like it although it does have technical glitches occasionally.
5 GeekMBA360 // Mar 24, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Nitin,
The Math Comment plugin is pretty good — it asks the commenter to complete a simply math question (e.g. “2+4= “) before letting the commenter to enter any text. It's recommended by fellow blogger Freeman. You should give it a try. I've exported all of my comments from WordPress to Disqus — it's a 3rd-party hosted comment platform. So far, I like it although it does have technical glitches occasionally.
6 markwitt // Apr 11, 2010 at 3:16 am
Yeah you should use akismet it works pretty well for my blog and I need it because I own many blogs using blog posting software to update them.
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