Switched over from Math Comment Spam Protection to reCAPTCHA. Spam has still been coming in despite the Math Comment Spam Protection plugin. I decided to take reCAPTCHA for a spin for a few weeks. Hopefully it helps.

What is reCAPTCHA?

You need a CAPTCHA differentiate human from computers. There are many other CAPTCHA programs available today, from numbers to whole phrases. Almost every website with registration, comments or basically any sort of forms implement some kind of CAPTCHA to keep spam bots at bay.

I chose reCAPTHA because it’s CAPTCHA function not only stops spam but also helps in the digitizing of books from the internet archive. It does this by adding OCR unrecognized words into it’s CAPTCHA images for users to solve. Sometimes the CAPTCHA gets pretty scrambled and can be hard to read. To aid users an additional word gets added to the CAPTCHA image which has been previously solved. A user normally only needs to get the solved word correct, the unrecognized word will be compared against answers from other users and the most accurate one then gets picked.

You can get the reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin here.

Source: reCAPTCHA

The latest update for the Defensio Anti Spam WordPress was released today.

This update fixed all the issues me and other Defensio users were experiencing recently. The previous version broke and caused the plugin editor and theme editor to stop working. Bug Report

I have the latest version installed and running now. So far nothing seems to be broken.

Source: Defensio Anti Spam

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