upgraded
I’ve just upgraded the wordpress installation powering this blog from version 1.5 to the latest version. It was a relatively painless upgrade as the instructions supplied by wordpress are clear and complete.
My next task is to see what I can do about all the bloody spam comments I’ve been getting lately. I’m averaging about 150 a day at the moment. Of course none of them appear on the blog, so the dastardly spammers get absolutely no benefit from their abuse of my hospitality. But it infuriating that, every evening when I get home from work, I have to zap over hundred comments from the moderation queue. I’m concerned that I might miss some genuine comments from new people in amongst all the spam and mistakenly delete them as spam. If that has happened to you, my apologies.
I see that the new version of Wordpress has a plugin that will check each comment against some third party service to see if it looks like spam and manage it accordingly. So I will investigate that and will report back shortly.
kazza says:
Install an image-entry plugin .. disadvantage of course is it makes it hard for blind people to comment, or those with images turned off, but it stopped my comment spam dead in its tracks.
kazza spoke at 09:45 UTC on June 7th, 2006 link
Richard says:
I’m thinking about setting up something like that. The main drawback is, as you say, it makes life difficult for people with visual difficulties. But I’m also aware that I’ve found them a nuisance in the past when I’ve tried to type in the word I see in the image, only to find that the O should have been a zero, or the L should have been a one and so on.
Richard spoke at 20:21 UTC on June 7th, 2006 link
kazza says:
yah, it helps to get an image plugin that’s at least relatively clear to read
I also have my email address next to it, so if someone wants to comment but can’t because of the image, they can email me
kazza spoke at 09:15 UTC on June 9th, 2006 link