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I've recently been under attack by a lot of spammers, and have been a little worried that my spam filters may have been a little overzealous in blocking comments and trackbacks. I've been looking at Akismet's page of caught spam to make sure nothing got through.

However, finding that one comment that got lost has proven difficult among the mess of hundreds of trackback spam has proven tricky. Thus, I wrote a plugin, called "See Spam," based on Akismet and Spam Nuker that provides separate views for All Spam, Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, and Pingback Spam. Each view provides the ability to batch delete all comments or unspam individual comments.

You can download See Spam from the See Spam plugin section of the Software section.

Based on feedback from KosherJava (on the v1.0.2. release announcement), I've enhanced the currentHebrewDate() API in the Hebrew Dates plugin. It now accepts parameters to control how the date is printed.
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I've released a small fix to the HebrewDate plugin. The new version is 1.0.2, and is available, at the regular place.

Yes, yet another WordPress plugin!

This one allows you to add additional "whois" servers to the listing shown in the comment display screen. It's also quite useful (as in my case) if you have a web gateway to search through logs, which I use to help block spammers.

The plugin comes with default entries to add APNIC, whois.ws, and LAPNIC searches, in addition to the default ARIN search. Simply add a path that can perform a whois query with the IP appended via the configuration screen to add a new query.

In order for the list to appear at all, you have to modify a few WP files (since I can't add a filter / action for this). Edit the files:

• wp-admin/edit-comments.php
• wp-admin/moderation.php
• wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php (only if you use the akismet plugin)

and add <?php if (function_exists('print_whois')) { print_whois(get_comment_author_IP()); } ?> right after the existing printing of comment_author_IP().

You can download Whois from the whois plugin section of the Software section.

Based on an idea I "borrowed" from Jacob Fresco, I've added the ability to insert the current Hebrew Date (with sunset correction!) anywhere in a theme.

Simply add <?php if (function_exists('hebrewDateCurrent')) { hebrewDateCurrent();} ?> to a theme.

The code can be downloaded Hebrew Dates release page under the Software section.

The code needs some major cleanup, but not today...