I finally got the time (at work, muahaha) to try to fix the problems I’ve had with the WPG2 plugin, displaying and linking to images from my Gallery2 photo gallery in my blog. The default behaviour of the plugin is to display a Gallery2 thumbnail (the 100×100 pixel with watermark, if you check my gallery) and open an embedded gallery page inside my blog. This screwed up everything and just looked disastrous, so I said “fuck it” and didn’t think more about it.Today I thougth that there has to be a way to get the plugin to work as I want it to, namely to display a down-scaled full size image (i.e. not the little square thumbnail) and to link to the standalone gallery instead of the embedded page. I succeeded to 99%. Continue reading ‘WPG2 plugin hacking’
Monthly Archive for July, 2006
So, the shoutbox had to go. There were just too much spam coming through despite my efforts to block the bots with the Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins. And let’s face it, it wasn’t used that much anyway.
However, the spam blocking plugins do stop bots from posting comments to my bloggings. That’s at least a big relief.
The Bad Behavior plugin I was talking about didn’t quite do the trick. Since I installed it two days ago, it has stopped about 35 spammings, but about 10-15 got through anyway. In this case I should turn on verbose logging and send a problem report to the author, but I just can’t be bothered.
Instead I looked at some other (complementary) solutions. As it turned out, there has been a spam plugin ready to go in my Wordpress plugin directory, I just haven’t activated it. So, I got myself a Wordpress API key (required by the plugin) and activated the Akismet plugin.
It immediately recognized 18 comments as spam, so I’d say it looks promising. Let’s see how it does in the future. Hopefully, Bad Behavior and Akismet together will ensure that spammers can no longer bloat my blog (a malicious spin-off from Pimp my ride).
I’ve recently got loads of spam comments and bogus shoutbox comments on my blog, so I decided to try out the Bad Behavior plugin. It’s supposed to stop all spambots from even entering my page, so let’s see if it works. The installation was childplay, as with all Wordpress plugins. The only downside is that there’s no interface for looking at the logs, so you actually have to use the mysql command line tool or some other database viewing tool for going through the plugin’s blocking log.