A couple of weeks ago I added this new Word Press plug-in, WP-Ban to my site. This plug is by Lester Chan and I might also add he has a number of other awesome Word Press plug-ins.

WP-Ban gives you the ability to ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and referrer URL from visiting your WordPress’s blog. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or referrer URL tries to visit your blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. It also gives you statistics on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild card matching too.

So far I have blocked 70 attempts from banned IPs.

The beauty of this plug-in is that when they are banned their comments don’t show up and and you don’t have to worry with deleting them…very time saving

I have blocked some IPs and they are still sneaking through…it maybe a user problem (mainly me) but I will continue to play with the features to learn how it works. All in all I’m pretty happy with this new plug-in. Great work Lester  Chan!

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Recently I installed the Odiogo WordPress plugin and it is awesome and FREE (it’s funded by advertising)! What does all this mean? Well as a reader of this blog, you can click the listen now button above the blog post and it will be read to you. Cool, huh? You can also go to my Odiogo Page and click subscribe and you will be able to listen to my blog content on the go on your iPod, MP3 player or cell phone.

When you click on my Odiogo Page you will have a couple of different ways that you can subscribe to my blog. You can subscribe through iTunes or Juice, or you can choose a web reader, such as: MyYahoo, NetVibes, Google, My MSN, NewsGator, or My AOL. Another option is to copy and paste this link into your favorite podcast client:
http://podcasts.odiogo.com/renee-thronson-com/podcasts-xml.php

If you would like to share this blog with a friend you may do so with Facebook, Del.icio.us, Digg or Technorati on the Odiogo Page.

If you are a blogger and would like to voice enable your blog, Signup now for Odiogo and make your textual content podcast-ready—It’s FREE!

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I have just uploaded a Privacy Policy for my blog. The Privacy Policy for WordPress plugin was obtained from Eric Giguere’s Synclastic.com.

If you use Google Adsense Ads or Google Search Boxes on your web site as of February 2008, you are required to display a privacy policy.

This plugin automates the creation of an Adsense compliant privacy policy. Installing and creating the privacy policy was quick and painless. Requirements: Self hosted WordPress 2.0 or higher. The wording is generic enough to be used with most sites even those without Google Adsense.

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