Honeypot for Contact Form 7 has been acquired by WPExperts.io.
I truly appreciate all the help many of you have provided in the Support Forums and at points in the code as well. We are proud users of the plugin as well, and look forward to seeing where it goes next.…
Honeypot for Contact Form 7 v2.1 has been released.
Aside from a couple of minor bug fixes, the main addition in v2.1 is the inclusion of a new (optional, and disabled by default) form submission time check. This new time check records the time when the form is loaded and checks again when the form is submitted. If the form is submitted in under a user-defined number of seconds, the form is rej…
Honeypot for Contact Form 7 v2.0 has been released, and it's the biggest update to the plugin since it was created 10 years ago. Fundamentally, the function of the plugin remains the same - stop dumb @#$%! bots.
While the spammer detection is the same, what happens after has been improved. Previously it was a simple validate/not-validate. However, I wanted to improve integration with CF7's buil…
Contact Form 7 Honeypot has been updated to version 1.8.
The update includes:
Additional filters for customizing the honeypot field's output.
Localization/i18n support (.POT file).
Minor bug fixes.
I'm also happy to report that Contact Form 7 Honeypot has 100,000+ active installs, and more than 200,000 downloads -- making it one of the most popular Contact Form 7 addons.
Update to…
I'm proud and a bit giddy to announce that Dao By Design is now Nocean. New look, same great taste!
Eight years ago, when I first started Dao By Design, I wanted a name that contained a dash of the business purpose, a dollop of my personal ideology and a smidgen of the business' roots in China.
As the business grew, and its client list expanded to all points of the globe, the name became…
Google has recently launched the Analytics Academy, a spot for anyone interested in digital analyst/marketing to learn more about digital analytics -- specifically using Google Analytics.
While it features a community and announcements, the primary purpose of the academy is the course, Digital Analytics Fundamentals. The three-week course "provides a foundation for marketers and analysts seeking…
Some commonsense advice from Google's Matt Cutts on those "too good to be true" scams that claim they can get your site ranked #1 on Google instantly.…
ToTop Link 1.4 for WordPress is out.
This simple plugin gives WordPress-powered sites an easy way to add a "return to top" link to their pages. You can see it in action on this site, simply scroll down the page a bit and you'll see a "return to top" link appear in the top right.
New in v1.4: This update brings with it the ability to customize the scroll trigger offset -- meaning, instead of…
I run a relatively popular Drupal-powered site that entirely depends on user-generated content. Because the site has a decent amount of clout with the search engines, and because the principle of the site is about sharing links, it tends to get hammered with spam.
The vast majority of spam is submitted by bots, which is relatively easy to combat (I use reCAPTCHA and Spamicide). However, and…
ToTop Link 1.2 for WordPress is out.
This simple plugin gives WordPress-powered sites an easy way to add a "return to top" link to their pages. You can see it in action here, simply scroll down the page a bit and you'll see a "return to top" link appear.
New in v1.2: You can now completely customize the positioning of the link/graphic. All the pre-sets (top-left, bottom-right, etc.) are stil…
Just a quick update to say SEOSimple 2.1 has been released, and now has a Joomla 2.5 version.
I've also added an option that allows you to define whether you wish your category description to be used as the category page's meta description. Optionally, you can use the content of the top-most article in the category listing. If set to "category description", and no category description is avail…
I'm pleased to announce the release of our latest WordPress plugin, ToTop Link.
This simple plugin gives WordPress-powered sites an easy way to add a "return to top" link to their pages. Rather than explain how it works, simply scroll down the page here and you'll see the link image appear in the top right corner.
Settings allow you easily to adjust the positioning and style to best fit your…
A bit of a landmark co-interview with opensource CMS luminaries Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) and Dries Buytaert (founder of Drupal) at SchipulCon 2011 in Houston, Texas. Bear with the initial audio -- the irony of tech stuff going wrong is not lost on me either.
Here at Dao By Design we near exclusively build using one or the other, and I couldn't agree with Matt's comment that initial…
In addition to running a Web design and development business, I also run numerous "side project/hobby" sites and blogs that appeal to various interests of mine. Without exception they all suffer from copious amounts of spam -- and some of it might be coming from you without your knowledge.
This spam is virtually all "link building" spam. This means that -- unlike e-mail spam -- the intention of t…
After almost exactly two years of no updates, I'm quite happy to announce the release of SEOSimple 2.0 -- now compatible with Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7 as well as Joomla 1.5 .
That's not all -- I've finally fixed a number of small bugs that have been growing dust on my todo list - including fixing the K2 compatibility issue and the occurrence of an "uninitialized strong offset" error.
I've…
I've just released a new WordPress plugin that adds honeypot functionality to the popular (and frankly, awesome) Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress.
Built out of self-necessity, the Contact Form 7 Honeypot plugin simply gives CF7 users an additional "honeypot" element to use when building their forms. A honeypot, for those unaware, is a spam trap that attempts to prevent spam bots from clo…
In early 2008 Dao By Design added a feature to its China-expat focused community site -- Lost Laowai -- which allowed bloggers focused on China to connect with one another. In the time since the feature has become increasingly popular and outgrew its position as a periphery feature on another site. So, we did the only thing we could: redesigned it, repackaged it, and relaunched it on its own domai…
Good friends and clients of Dao By Design, NeochaEDGE, were recently featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ART NATION program.
While the program doesn't focus on the role NeochaEDGE's Web site plays in achieving the Shanghai-based company's goals, you can catch several glimpses of people using the site in the video above -- which as far as Web sites getting featured on TV goes,…
