It’s a great little plugin, but I’ve just encountered a bug with it… namely that when the plugin is activated, the ability to publish immediately by just pressing the publish button when writing a post dissapears… to publish the post with the plugin active, I had to first choose “published” from the dropdown box before hitting the publish button. I don’t know if this plugin prevents scheduled publishing of a post too, but certainly it interfered with immediate publishing for me just now – I’ve, sadly, had to de-activate it.

Eric Meyer:
Alan: I”d do that, but I don”t know of a way for WP/PHP to forge the referer for the browser to pick up and pass along, or to just generally forge the referer. Some Googling turned up zippo, though perhaps I wasn”t using the right terms. I”ll poke around some more.

You could spoof your hostname into being their hostname (/etc/hosts)They will then see that domainname in their logs,but maybe they can still see the ip-address then, I don’t know that right now.

I found this though:
http://own-the.net/news_Hide-referer-tested-on-IE-and-FF_4.html

Also changed it so only the links from not-approved comments are redirected either through hidereferer.com or anonim.to.

http://www.laptoptips.ca/wpd/wp-content/img/mw_url_obscurify.zip

Just thought I’d throw that out as a possibility.

<?php
header("Location: " . $_GET["q"]);
?>

Using this, the url could be http://meyerweb.com/redirect.php?q=http://hamstu.com allowing a single click while avoiding the reference to the WP Admin.

Of course, this won’t work if you’re trying to avoid references to meyerweb all together.

You could use Javascript to change all external links when viewing edit-comments.php. If I had any Javascript skills I’d give it a shot.

If someone wrote a common plugin that went through google to mask the referrer, we could see some very interesting side effects when we look at the keywords used to get to our site.

Even more interesting, though, is that google gives me an intermediary page when I try a URL such as you suggest. It even adds a query param to the URL – “oi=unauthorizedredirect”.

Alan: I’d do that, but I don’t know of a way for WP/PHP to forge the referer for the browser to pick up and pass along, or to just generally forge the referer. Some Googling turned up zippo, though perhaps I wasn’t using the right terms. I’ll poke around some more.

Why not make the referrer string reflect the domain that is the possible spammer. Their logs would show their site referring to itself. This is what we see normally in our logs from inbound links but would be good payback to spammers.

I come across this site all the time when dealing with nulled copies of Mint. Sigh.

Just add a question mark and url you want to redirect to.