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Guestbook: captchas?
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:52 am
by hgoor
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...
Re: Guestbook: captchas?
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:59 am
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...
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:32 pm
by hgoor
Hmm... so basically the guestbook is unuseable just like the shoutbox plugin....
That... sucks...
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:41 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
The developer contacted me again, I'll be committing his plugin approach soon.
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:44 pm
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!
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:47 pm
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
Best regards,
Garvin