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Guestbook Spam
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:52 pm
by Wizard
I notice that I'm starting to get a lot of spam now to my Guest Book plugin. Is there a way to put a spam blocker on it? Maybe you add using captchas to help?.
Re: Guestbook Spam
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:26 pm
by garvinhicking
I absolutely agree, the plugin should be made to co-operate with the captcha plugin, just like the contactform plugin does.
Sadly the guestbook plugin code is so obfuscated that I won't touch it.
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:02 am
by Wizard
Wow, such harsh words.
Well, I guess one of the talented members of the community might want to take this on, or perhaps the original author. In the mean time, I just might have to remove the plugin, it's just to much trouble for its worth! I get about 10-20 spam entries a day. It's tiresome to delete every day. Be careful what you ask for! You just might get it.
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:14 am
by Wizard
I guess no one is going make the Guest Book spam un-friendly. I starting to get about 5 per hour. My only recourse is to uninstall. Good bye Guest Book.
Word to the wise. Don't install this plug in!
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:43 am
by garvinhicking
The word to the wise would be: Improve the plugin!
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(Sorry for your pain...but I only got so much time to dedicate on s9y, and there are many other places my hands are digging in to
Best regards,
Garvin
Re: removing guestbook, or not?
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:42 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!
The problem now is the guestbook link is still in the sidebar even though it is not installed in any way shape or form. How does one remove it?
If you use the staticpage plugin, this might offer a guestbook link. Go and confiugre the staticpage plugin to not show a guestbook link?
Best regards,
Garvin