Herself’s Webtools

Here is another popular Wordpress Theme ( Blue-Box) I converted to work with Coppermine. You should find it easy to tailor to your needs including adding in advertising to your sidebar. Coppermine Blue-Box WordPress adapted theme

This plugin adds a Manage page to your admin area. This page allows you to see a list of users, the user email, the date they registered, the number of comments they have made and the date they last commented.

The user email address is clickable so you can easily send email to your users to inquire why they have not commented recently.

The user registration captcha plugin I use no longer works with the new version of WordPress so I wrote this to sort through bots from humans. Bots tend to not leave comments right away.

This plugin ( version 2.0 ) also checks the email address of the user against the Stop Forum Spam database of known spammers.

You could also use this as a way to email users who you haven’t heard from in a while and let them know you miss them.

User Comment Count Plugin

I compare the new users who haven’t commented against the Stop Forum Spam list of email addresses and black list users or domains that are on that list using Registration Blacklist plugin.

I was asked to help set up a website for a local non-profit. Last time I set up a custom domain name for Blogspot with GoDaddy it was totally painless. It sure wasn’t this time. 404 errors, name servers that wouldn’t update and Google’s directions on Blogger just don’t work.

Here is what does work.

1) Log onto Google
- go to your blog
- go to settings then publishing
Your domain = http://www.yourdomain.com
Be sure to put in the www
Do not check the box for the redirect.
Save settings.

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2) Log onto your GoDaddy Account
- go to Domains then My Domains
- check that the name servers are ‘Default Parked Nameservers

3) Go to Total DNS Control and MX Records
- under cnames set host www to points to ghs.google.com

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4) Go to Forwarding
- Forward Enabled
- Forward To: http://www.yourdomain.com
- Redirect type 301 Moved Permanently

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That’s it. If everything is correct all should be well in a couple of hours. Possibly as long as two days but I’ve never had it take more than a couple of hours. Just replace herselfsgreenthings.com with your domain name in each of the three pictures.

[ I just set that up temporarily to solve this problem. That domain will probably be reverted to its proper home by the time you read this. ]