Greets again:
Waiting for phpMyAdmin to load so I'll go ahead and post this.
One of the annoyances I have is blogs that are never used. Someone came up a while back with a "plugin" that sends an email and all that but I would rather double check instead of having it done automatically.
Plus, if they're used the blog once, they might come back sometime. :)
I made a change in my wp-admin/wpmu-blogs.php file and I wanted to post it here.
Open up the file and find the case "register": line about three quarters down. Change it to the following:
case 'registered':
$tmplast_updated = strtotime($blog[ 'last_updated' ]);
$tmpregistered = strtotime($blog[ 'registered' ]);
$tmpdifference = $tmplast_updated - $tmpregistered;
?>
<td valign='top'><?php echo $blog[ 'registered' ] ?><br /><?php echo $tmpdifference ?></td>
<?php
break;
What does this do? It puts the difference in seconds into the registered column between when the blog was registered and the last time it got updated.
What does that tell you? Well, if the difference is 0 or 1, it's never been used. Ever. There's no way that the blog owner could have done anything within a second like that.
About a 30? Chances are they've modified their theme or made a post or done something. Or they're a spammer. I would check.
Thousands and more? The blog is probably active, either currently or in the past.
Just going through and finding all those 0's and 1's took out about 250 blogs that had never been used. After the first 50 or so, I just started hitting deleted becuase none of the ones I looked at had been used. I looked at the <100 as well and about half of those were spam blogs.
hope this helps,
-drmike