Tag: wangguard

  • WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats

    WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats

    After seven years of developing and supporting the WangGuard/SplogHunter service, José Conti has shut down the server permanently due to the stress and trauma associated with maintaining it. Conti is a WordPress plugin developer and consultant, and a member of the WordPress España translation team. His WangGuard plugin identifies and blocks sploggers, unwanted users, and…

  • WPWeekly Episode 280 – Behind the Scenes of Tuniversity

    WPWeekly Episode 280 – Behind the Scenes of Tuniversity

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Kiko Doran and Travis Totz, Senior Web Strategist at Modern Tribe. Doran helped create Tuniversity, a revolutionary new way of learning music through a highly interactive iBook. The project was so large, Doran outsourced some of the work to Modern Tribe, a web design and…

  • WangGuard Plugin Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Fund Development and Support

    WangGuard Plugin Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Fund Development and Support

    This week José Conti, creator of WangGuard, announced that he would be shutting down the service and further development. The plugin, which Conti says has nearly 20,000 users, is one of the few effective solutions for combatting WordPress, multisite, BuddyPress, and bbPress spammers and sploggers. Conti was struggling to pay for the servers and, after…