UPDATE: Everything is now ready to go, the plugin works well with 1.2 and 1.3 installs of WP with one exception.  There has been some problem with WP 1.2.1 when running Kubrick 1.2.6.  I am looking into it now, but I thought it was not a deal breaker.  If you have any questions leave them for me here or on my site. Hey everyone, just checking in with a little plugin update.  I am releasing a new plugin on Friday the 29th of October called Per Post Comment Text. In a nutshell this plugin will allow you to specify the text that your link to your comments form holds.  Gone are the days of every link on every article being Comments (0), or What do you think? (0).  Now you will be able to have your post about motorcycles have this as your comment link: What kind of hog do […]

An updated version of the Three Strikes Spam Plugin, now in version 1.1 Beta, is available for download. I started to receive a few Spam comments yesterday and I realized that the built in WordPress “Common Spam Words” filter does not account for encoded information. In other words, if a spammer encodes the contents of the comment, URL etc, it does not get caught as spam (though some items will get caught). This new version of the plugin uses a function that acts like the Javascript unescape command (in PHP) and decodes encoded entities. The php function, and consequently, the Three Strikes plugin, will check for Unicode and ASCII characters, convert them to plain letters and characters (unencoded) and then run the spam checker on this information. I will be working on implementing this within Kitten’s Spam Words plugin as well. Download the new plugin from here. Installation and upgrade […]