Even though WP Comment Auth seems to work, I still end up having to “moderate” WordPress comment spam. The Three Strikes plugin works like SpamAssassin to automatically reject comments that score above a certain threshold. I applied couple of hacks noted by others to send notification when a comment is blocked, and also to display the comment before it’s rejected, in case it is in fact legit. Here’s my version of the plugin.

A while back I thought about adding image thumbnails to the WordPress edit screen to make it easier to browse image asset posts… It turns out that this is just one line of code at the end of the post loop in edit.php:

if( in_category(CATEGORY_IMAGE) ) { echo "

\n”; }


Now that I have a growing number of image “asset” posts in WordPress, some basic gallery functions are useful. I added a new rewrite rule, and created gallery.php to display groups of images for a given category:
RewriteRule ^archives/gallery/?(.*) /gallery.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]

E.g. http://www.dwelle.org/archives/gallery/michigan/

Since each image is a blog post, viewers can leave comments, just like on Flickr.