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WP-BlackCheck 2.7.1
WP-BlackCheck 2.7.1 is out - it's mostly a bump to satisfy the next Wordpress version. The Changes so far: Stop messing around with Akismet stats - Who used that anyways? Opening all of the options at the settings pan...
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PHP Upgrade
Today I had to upgrade my PHP version to 5.5 as version 5.4 is getting older. So there will be some small problems with some services here as I have to adapt some of the code pieces used. Sorry for the inconvenience d...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.7.0 is ready for you
The new WP-BlackCheck Version is ready. That's the changes so far: Implement redirection of spammers (i.e. send them to the fbi website) Implement comment hash checking for repeated spam Increase HTTP Timeout for Web-...
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Thinking about comment spam again
It's a fact that I don't have much spam here since WP-BlackCheck pretty much kills it all, but as I am just one user among many out there, I'd like to know if I miss some kind of spam on your end or which bugs you fou...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.6.2
This version fixes a bug with known comment authors which I overlooked last release.
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WP-BlackCheck 2.6.1
A new version of WP-BlackCheck is out - once again. The changes are more or less just a few cosmetic fixes: Add counter for reported IPs Fix bar graph text issue New Webservice URL
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Albanian translation for WP-BlackCheck
It was quite a pleasant surprise when I checked my mails and found a message where someone offered help on my Wordpress Plugin WP-BlackCheck: Taulant Ceka sent me the albanian translation, which I'm cheerfully adding...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.6.0
Spam changed - mostly the trackback and pingback stuff started to get annoying - maybe a sign of the upcoming vacations? The situation on site here forced me to adapt my plugin. The changes so far: Fix of the Update N...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.5.1
The last version had a small bug which I did overlook. However - it's corrected now.
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WP-BlackCheck Preview
After having to suffer a nice spam attack against this blog serving about 3000 comments per hour, my Blacklist started to grow and I did wreck my braincells about some ideas on how to make my plugin a little more effe...
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WP-HeadlineAnimator 1.7.3 - Style Fix
Quite some time passed since the last update of this plugin - but honestly, there isn't much to do since it just works. I pushed out the last style fixes to reflect the changes of wordpress and its admin pages. The re...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.4.0 released
The new version of my Plugin just got committed and that's the changelog: Update notification optional - you can switch nagging off Known Problems got renamed to FAQ E-Mail Notification for new Spam - a rather hackish...
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Small fixes
My WP-HeadlineAnimator Plugin for WordPress is running fine since quite some time and I wasn't forced to do that many changes to stay compatible with WordPress development. Today's Update brings a little design fix to...
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The future of WP-BlackCheck
At the moment, the current version of the Plugin kills quite some spam here - in fact, I am Spam-Free since months now. But there are things like IPv6 floating around, which need to be taken care of. In terms of progr...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.3.0 released
After talking to Chris I did wreck my braincells again, to find some ideas to improve WP-BlackCheck to make spammers life harder. The Result is the new version 2.3.0 which contains the following changes: Type rate cal...
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Ciao, Akismet!
This is a short report about the happenings around WP-BlackCheck. The Blacklist itself just entered the 40000th IP address to the list. By now I am test-driving the new version to be to find the latest bugs and elimin...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.2.2 released
After a local test run of WP-BlackCheck Version 2.2, I decided to say it's safe for global usage.. The highlights of this version are: Update notifications Checking for Requirements Purging of old comments Some langua...
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WP-BlackCheck 2.1.0 released
After working with WP-BlackCheck Version 2.0, I had a couple of new ideas and corrections to be applied to the plugin which made me release Version 2.1.0 by now. The highlights of this version are: Reset to factory de...
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Call for translators
Booth of my plugins, WP-BlackCheck and WP-HeadlineAnimator are polished and ready for localization. In other words, things could get international now. The only problem is that I don't know enough languages to do so....
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WP-BlackCheck 2.0.0 released
The new version number of my plugin indicates, that a big thing happened: WP-BlackCheck speaks foreign languages now. Other changes were minor changes under the hood to keep things smooth.
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WP-HeadlineAnimator 1.7.0 released
After some time I peeked into the admin interface of my plugins and I got scared of the old look of my Headline Animator Plugin. This is a little update which should be a nice face-lift which should bring a little mor...
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WP-BlackCheck 1.12 released
Just a quick note about my plugin again: WP-BlackCheck 1.12 has just been released. Changes happened mostly 'under the hood' to improve the code.
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WP-BlackCheck 1.11 released
WP-BlackCheck 1.11 is my latest work here, adapting to the current spam situation of my blog. Due to much trackback spam, some improvements were done here too. Another check about link-counts got implemented. Please g...
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WP-BlackCheck 1.10 released
As I spotted a few glitches in my code, I started to iron them out. While doing so I had one of my brighter moments which did lead to implementing new features to make the blog even more unattractive to spambots. Hope...
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WP-BlackCheck 1.9 released
This time, Version 1.9 of the WP-BlackCheck Plugin got released. This versions highlight is the implementation of an admin panel which enables you to toggle the display of statistics and the stack size of reported IPs...
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Release Dilemma
As a programmer I am fighting with updating my own software from time to time. What should I do regarding bugfixes? What should I do regarding features? How often should I release a new version? Honestly, this is a di...
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WP-BlackCheck 1.8 released
Reviewing my last version I spotted a few lines of code which could be considered as dead and a little bug which hammers the SQL server with a stupid query. As booth things - dead code and bugs - shouldn't be in a goo...
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WP-BlackCheck 1.7 released
After a few month now it's time to release the next version of my WP-BlackCheck Plugin. The changes made are not big as most of the work is done at the server side of mine. The first thing you might notice is an addit...
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News from the blacklist
Since I am running my blacklist to prevent spam on Wordpress Blogs, many days have passed and I was curious again of what happened behind the scenes and I did some statistics. IPs listed: 12005 IPs removed: 1 Users: 2...
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WP-BlackCheck Update
As Wordpress changed a few details in their API, I updated the WP-BlackCheck Plugin to reflect those. The current Version is now 1.5 which is available on wordpress.org
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WP-HeadlineAnimator
Changes regarding PHP and Wordpress rendered the configuration of the plugin unusable. This and the switching to qTranslate instead of Polyglot made me do a new version. If you need Polyglot Support in the plugin agai...
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The blacklist again...
It is wonderful if you know that a plan is working - especially if it's your own one. Regarding the WP-Blackcheck plugin, it might even fot more here as I was observing less and less spam comments into the moderation...
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WP-Blackcheck - Statusreport
My Blacklist service is running for quite a while now and it it's time to look at the result. Sure, it isn't much as not many people provided feedback by reporting the IPs, but for now we have collected about 60 IP Ad...
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WP-BlackCheck goes WP.org
During the last days I have sent out some preview versions of my plugin and got some feedback about the plugin which helped me getting things done. Due to the positive echo of various people, I am now posting it on wo...
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Together we're stronger
I was fed up with the comment spam again as it's me who has to check the akismet queue for false positives. So I have started preventing spam by doing various checks before handing the comment over to akismet - but it...
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JSSpamBlock 2.1?
You might remember my ranting about the JSSpamBlock plugin of Paul Butler, thinking of porting it to the actual WP release . I have decided to keep an eye on it fixing various bugs for keeping it compatible. JSSpamBlo...
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JSSpamBlock is (really) dead now?
After Paul Butler's Announcement of the end of JSSpamBlock maintenance, I was not really worried about the plugin itself, as it still did its job in a perfect way. If you think back, there are enough unmaintained plug...
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It’s getting quiet around the WP-HeadlineAnimator
Yes, it is getting quiet and there is hardly any feedback on my plugin. Nothing here. Not even on wordpress.org or mail. All the requested features have been done and a bugtracker has been set up for if it is needed.
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Spam sucks
Yesterday I started a small battle on my blog fighting the daily comment spam that already raised to 200 comments a day. A small Javascript should do the job if akismet dies. But what way to go? I do not want to bug u...
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Problems with the HeadlineAnimator Plugin
Regarding the feedback of bloggers using my plugin including Tante blogging at the-gay.bar.com, I have rolled a new release targetting problems with the EXIF PHP extension and the path of the font file. Other changes...
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The W3C way
I have checked my blog for common w3c errors caused by postings and plugins and corrected them as the w3c standard is a standard to be followed. But why? Websites that do not follow those standards are relying on erro...
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WP-HeadlineAnimator 1.1
My WP-HeadlineAnimator got released today. Its stable version is 1.1 by now, as I had to do some changes on 1.0 for error handling. In other words, we have reached the point where this software is about to get out int...
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WP-HeadlineAnimator goes WordPress Plugin Browser
My WordPress plugin will be avaliable on wordpress.org as my hosting request has been aproved: Stargazer, your plugin hosting request has been aproved. You now have access to your SVN repository at http://svn.wp-plugi...
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WP-HeadlineAnimator - New Version
You still remember my good old Wordpress Plugin WP-HeadlineAnimator? I did the next version to clean out some dirty hacks to be compatible with the polyglot Plugin. Download current Version: wp-headlineanimator.zip
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HeadlineAnimator, my Wordpress PlugIn
Since the FeedBurner Problem still has Problems accessing my feed, I decided to do the feedburner stuff myself. The result is a WordPress Plugin which renders an headline animator like Feedburner does. That's what it...
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Steve rettet den Tag
Steve, der Autor des FeedBurner Plugin hatte mir auf eine Anfrage hin in seinem Blog die Beta Version seines PlugIns gesendet, welches hier nun seinen Dienst als Redirector aufnehmen wird. Mit anderen Worten wird das...
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Steve rettet den Tag
Steve, der Autor des FeedBurner Plugin hatte mir auf eine Anfrage hin in seinem Blog die Beta Version seines PlugIns gesendet, welches hier nun seinen Dienst als Redirector aufnehmen wird. Mit anderen Worten wird das...
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Wordpress Widgets
Wordpress hat nun Widgets als Plugin verfügbar. Das heisst für mich, den Anwender, ich kann meinen Sidebar - das ist das Ding links mit dem Kalender und der Navigation - im Backend dynamisch per Drag 'n Drop anpassen....
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Wordpress Widgets
Wordpress hat nun Widgets als Plugin verfügbar. Das heisst für mich, den Anwender, ich kann meinen Sidebar - das ist das Ding links mit dem Kalender und der Navigation - im Backend dynamisch per Drag 'n Drop anpassen....