It’s been over 24 hours since I activated my Arkayne Related Posts plugin but no related posts have even shown up so far. I expected 30 mins as stated by Arkayned eventually 24 hours later and nothing is happening.

Arkayne parses and links your blog in 30 min flat.

I sent 4 mails asking for support but never heard back from Arkayne.

Apparently the Arkayne Related plugin is not working as advertised. The only thing left to do now is to drop the plugin. Till then I’m back to Simple Tags’s related posts feature.

I love the concept behind Arkayne and hope they get it running soon.

I’m trying out a new related posts plugin called “Arkayne” for a few weeks on my blog.

I’ve been looking around for related posts plugins and been testing a few recently but most of them either only use tags or categories to find related posts. So far my favorite has been Related Entrie by WASABI because it uses keywords instead.

What is Arkayne?

Arkayne is an online service that collects and automatically links similar content from the Arkayne network. The Arkayne network is made up of sites/blogs which are connected via the Arkayne plugins or java scripts. Their posts get registered by Arakyne and the magic happens. The Arkayne engine consists of a set of rules and algorithm the relates pages based on content and not just tags, keywords or categories. If Arkayne functions as advertised, someone surfing a PHP related site should only see posts related to the PHP world.

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Defensio anti spam plugin version 1.1.3 for WordPress was released yesterday to fix a few bugs.

This update fixes the broken link issue in the WordPress admin dashboard activity area. See Bug Report. The link was still pointing the the old directory structure “/defensio/”, the fix will change this to “/defensio-anti-spam”.

There are still a few pending issues I wrote about in my previous post which the Defensio team is working to resolve now. Thanks Carl Mercier

Download the latest version here.

Source: Defensio

Found my first bug in the latest Defensio plugin version 1.1.2. Upon activating the plugin a few things stop working in my WordPress admin section.

1. Can’t load the Defensio quarantine page from the dash board.

2. Can’t load the plugin editor anymore.

3. Can’t load the theme editor anymore.

Once I have the Defension-anti-spam plugin turned off everything is back to normal.

I ain’t no php specialist so I can’t operate on the source files but I’ve submitted a bug report at Defensio’s Community site in hopes for a quick response.

There is an updated version of the Defensio WordPress plugin available for download from Defensio website or WordPress Extend. The plugin is now officially hosted on WordPress Extend.

Changes in this release;

New plugin name.

Formerly Defensio but now it’s Defensio-anti-spam. “/wp-content/plugins/defensio” –> /wp-content/plugins/defensio-anti-spam

Make sure to delete the old Defensio folder within the plugin folder before installing this update.

Unprocessed comment notification.

If the Defensio service goes down spam will be queued and can be resubmitted through the interface shown below.

New defensio counter widget.

Just like what Askimet’s widget does, it shows the total spam count in quarantine. I have the widget turned on, I like Defensio so I’ll help spread the word too.

Quarantine status in Dashboard

Defensio quarantine stats now shows up in the WordPress admin dashboard under latest activity. Askimet always had this and it’s good that Defensio now has it too as admins love quick access to the stats.

Strong start for Defensio. The plugin added some much needed enhancements. Again, I stress that simplicity is the main goal and if Defensio keeps doing what they are doing now, Defensio’s user base will surely skyrocket. Kudos.

Source: Defensio Blog