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<p>Compare the list of plugins on any two WordPress websites hosted on any platform.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Creates an admin interface that provides a JSON text containing the list of all plugins installed on your website.</li>
<li>Provides a graphical diff interface where you can compare the list of plugins on the two websites.</li>
<li>Highlights if plugins on the other website have been removed or added compared to your current website</li>
<li>Highlights differences between the versions of the plugins installed on the two websites.</li>
<li>Highlights differences in which plugins are activated on the two websites.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How To Use</h3>
<ul>
<li>The plugin has to be installed on both websites.</li>
<li>The plugin provides a text field with JSON text that can be copied from the other website into yours</li>
<li>Once the JSON is copied it generates a friendly Diff User interface that highlights the differences</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Website Plugins Compare</h3>
<p>Developers usually have multiple instances running of the same website on different environments such as their local machines, development or test servers as well as production environments.</p>
<p>As development goes on a project or as support requests get fulfilled the plugins installed on these various environments could get out of sync.</p>
<p>Version control systems such as Git are great but they were designed to track differences between files not lists of installed plugins and their state in the Database.</p>
<p>This plugin does not rely on version control systems and since it exports the list a simple JSON it has no limitations on which two websites you compare.</p>


WordPress Plugins Compare Diff

Compare the list of plugins installed on any two websites.

Automattic

Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

<p>This plugin adds a stylesheet or image to your blog’s html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet or image a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves a comment the cookie is checked. If it doesn’t exist the comment is marked as spam.<br />
The plugin can also check how long it took a user to enter a comment. If it’s too fast it’s probably a spam bot. How fast can a legitimate user enter their name, email, web address and enter a well thought out comment?</p>
<p>For the adventurous, add these lines to your .htaccess and it will block spam attempts before they ever get to WordPress. Replace the Xs with the cookie that was set in your browser after viewing your blog. You can also find the cookie value by examining the page source code and looking for “css.php?k=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”. Make sure the lines go above the standard WordPress rules.</p>
<pre><code>    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
    RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>
<p>If you use WordPress MU, replace wp-comments-post.php above with wp-signup.php to block spam signups.</p>
<pre><code>    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
    RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>


Cookies for Comments

If you don't use any other spam filter plugins, then you can rely on this to stop spam comments for sure!

Must have, if you don't use any other spam filters!

I'd been getting a dozen spams a day on two of my sites. We installed "Stop Spam Comments" on one and "Cookies for Comments" on the other. Both worked perfectly. No more spam. Thanks!



very easy and no more spam!

Sets a cookie on a random URL that is then checked when a comment is posted. If the cookie is missing the comment is marked as spam.

WordPress Plugins Compare Diff vs Cookies for Comments