Peter's Useful Crap - Topic: Version 3.1.2 released!

Tony on Version 3.1.2 released!

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:08:04 +0000

This is a nice plugin. I have implemented a couple of patches for my blog:

1) I limit comments to 2,000 bytes because I don't expect comments longer than this. If the message is longer, somebody is trying to overflow buffers or play weird games. A length limit is a useful heuristic.

2) I count the words (separated by blanks), and count the number of non-blank punctuation characters. If the ratio of punctuation characters is much higher or lower than normally found it text, I purge the comment. I don't expect program code to be posted. Therefore, I suppress comments that might introduce Trojans or other exploits.

Thanks for your efforts.
Tony

Peter on Version 3.1.2 released!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:06:55 +0000

In WordPress 2.7 comes the ability to reply to comments from within the WordPress back-end. This release makes it so that the anti-spam check stays out of this process (no matter what the settings), so that you are not prompted to enter an anti-spam word.

Download the 3.1.2 release on the plugin page, as always:

http://www.theblog.ca/anti-spam

If you are upgrading, simply extract the new files on top of the old files. For this plugin, it is not recommended to use the automatic WordPress plugin upgrade feature.

If you have a question not related to this specific release, please start a new topic.