Tag: MySQL database

Listing ip addresses of WordPress comment spammers easier and faster

[ No Comments ] Posted on July 16, 2010 under Server Configuration, WordPress tweaks

You’re fed up with lots of spammers. You want to list their IP address to impose an IP ban but there’s too many of them to be listed. Here’s an easier way of listing the IP addresses of spammers even if there are hundreds or thousands of spams in your Dashboard.

Manual search-and-replace in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 10, 2009 under Server Configuration, WordPress tweaks

Replace all instances of a certain word, phrase or any string throughout your blog or WordPress-powered website without using any plugin.

Search and replace in WordPress using a plugin

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 7, 2009 under WordPress plugins

Need to change all instances of a word, a phrase or string across your blog or WordPress-powered website? The “Search and Replace” plugin can do just that. Advantage: you can select which database to perform find and replace operation. Disadvantage: sometimes there are strings it can’t change.