Guestbook: captchas?

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hgoor
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Guestbook: captchas?

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Hi,

The static pages guestbook plugin has no spam protection?

Is there a way where I could apply the same anti-spam rules as with the comments/trackbacks?

Thanks...
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Re: Guestbook: captchas?

Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!
The static pages guestbook plugin has no spam protection?
Not really. Someone made a patch so that it supports it, but the patch was large, had some issues and was not committed yet because I got out of touch with the author.

There once was made an effort of collecting a donation so that I would code in the guestbook captcha support, but that failed. :)

That discussion was in the german forums, I think. Searching for "Gästebuch" and "Captcha" should yield some results...

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Post by hgoor »

Hmm... so basically the guestbook is unuseable just like the shoutbox plugin....

That... sucks... :oops:
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Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!

The developer contacted me again, I'll be committing his plugin approach soon. :)

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Post by hgoor »

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

The developer contacted me again, I'll be committing his plugin approach soon. :)

Best regards,
Garvin
That is GOOD news... What would a blog be without a nice guestbook ;-)

And it seems that if there is a anti-spam plugin anyway, it could be used too?

Nice!
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Post by garvinhicking »

Hi!

Right, the guestbook plugin will just make use of the anti-spam plugin.

Many people just post a usual blog entry as a guestbook-dummy, instead of using this plugin - that might be the reason why it's a tad unmaintained ;)

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