SECURITY WARNING: PLEASE RE-DOWNLOAD THIS HACK IF YOU ARE USING IT, A VERY SERIOUS VULNERABILITY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED AND FIXED. David Merwin has modified my Contextual Search hack for WordPress to work with WordPress 1.5. This is now offered as [EDIT] a zip file [EDIT] and installation is quite simple. The feature set remains the same as before. Text based “fuzzy” searches within WordPress A nice Google like interface which is very customizeable Search results with decreasing relevance to search topic Trap for words which are less than four letters long, the search then gets routed through the default WP search “Next results” button which shows the next 10 (or less) results in relevance Download Advanced Contextual Search for WordPress 1.5 Please leave bugs and comments here. I am sure David will check this often.

I want to release a beta version of the Three Strikes Plugin exclusively written for WordPress 1.5. Newer comment spam features built into the 1.5 code needed to be exploited and this plugin makes use of one such feature. New features include: Better Bayesian Filtering – the bayesian code has been updated a little to train better, fixed some bugs Better training on install – Used some of the new features in WP 1.5 to train the filter at install More bugfixes and workarounds for WordPress 1.5 Please leave bugs/suggestions as comments. Thanks for trying it out. Download link for Three Strikes 1.5 Beta Plugin for WordPress 1.5 [EDIT] I left a debug statement in the code which would have borked commenting, fixed in the download. [EDIT] As a suggestion for testers/users of this plugin, get some good and some spam comments first before you install it. The plugin does […]