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Bug in the new Defensio plugin for WordPress

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.

Defensio releases new WordPress plugin

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

Defensio a week later

I have been running Defensio for a week now.

253 positive spam comments and only 8 false positive hits. Not bad in my book as the current accuracy is at 97.05%.

What I seem to be loving about Defensio is it’s simplicity in spam management.

• Color code comments based on spaminess
• Obvious spam is hidden
• Spam statistics made available through the WordPress admin page.
• Enhanced statistics, reports and graphs accessible through the Defensio Account Management page on the Defensio’s site.
• RSS feeds for spam and comments.

Spam is something every Blog owner has to deal with on a daily basis. I had 253 positive spam and only 18 legitimate comments. Everyday I spend a few minutes going through the possible spam list and comb out the false positives. Askimet was good but Defensio went one step further by incorporating the color codes and hiding confirmed spam. This dramatically reduced the amount of data I had to go trough now thus improving my admin experience.

The RSS feed option for comments and spam further simplifies access to your spam and comments. Everything through Google reader for me.

The Enhanced statistic made available through the Account Management page on Defensio’s site is also pretty neat. Not the most important but admin’s love looking at historically data presented through use of graphs and diagrams. Simplification again.

Source: Defensio

Source: Defensio Blog

openSUSE 10.3 live cd

openSUSE 10.3 is now available in the form of live cd. Both the KDE and GNOME live cds contain the same software as the single cd installation versions. Both are distributed in 32bit versions and only available in US english.

openSUSE is currently my favorite desktop distro due it’s speed, clean interface and superb community support. The openSUSE official site and  openSUSE community wiki both have an abandonce of articles to help you setup  and configure your perfect openSUSE desktop.

Give it a spin, try one of the live cd. You don’t have to install so there is nothing to worry about.

Download the latest images.

openSUSE 10.3 GNOME live image

openSUSE 10.3 KDE live image 

Source : openSUSE News

More XWilling than meets the eye…

I was configuring XDMCP for some of my linux boxes today, when I noticed that gdm only returns the kernel version, and not some useful info like the amount of users & machine load that Solaris does.

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