Adding Other Languages for Allowed comments

  • Resolved exchange-nl

    (@jas0nw0ng123)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,

    First of all, I would like to thank you for the plugin! It has drastically reduced the amount of spam in my site.

    I am currently running a blog in Chinese, and most of the spam in my site is in English. I notice that there is a “Allow comments only in certain language” setting in the plugin, which would be perfect for my situation. However, there are only European languages in the list, which I am not able to select Chinese.

    I notice that there is a document on adding other languages in the list, as in https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/wiki/en-Hooks#ab_get_allowed_translate_languages. However, I am a noob in code and programming and stuffs. I don’t know where should I place the code, which in fact I broke the plugin when trying to edit the plugin file, and have to reinstall it.

    Grateful on any advices on adding other languages to the setting. Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @jas0nw0ng123

    First of all, I would like to thank you for the plugin! It has drastically reduced the amount of spam in my site.

    Thanks! 🙂

    I don’t know where should I place the code, which in fact I broke the plugin when trying to edit the plugin file, and have to reinstall it.

    If you have a child theme or a custom made theme, you can add the code to your functions.php. Otherwise an update of the theme would overwrite your added code.

    As an alternative you can build a functionality plugin to add this code:
    https://gist.github.com/Zodiac1978/1d9f33ef1be377869ad3

    Or you can use a snippet plugin, like https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/code-snippets/ to add the code.

    But although the code is simple and easy to add, there is another problem. The language detection system is reporting an unexpected return value which is not mapped in our plugin at the moment. I have opened a Github issue to solve this issue.

    Sorry for the delay in my reply and the inconvenience.

    Here is the issue:
    https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee/issues/342

    Hopefully we can fix this soon.

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @jas0nw0ng123

    because of the missing mapping you need to check what franc is detecting for your comment texts. You can paste your text in the box and see the result below the box.

    If this is the expected cmn for Mandarin Chinese you can use this code to add Mandarin Chinese to the allowed language list:

    add_filter( 'ab_get_allowed_translate_languages', function( $languages ) {
  $languages['cmn'] => 'Mandarin Chinese';
  return $languages;
});

    Please try this out and report back if it works! That would be great.

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @jas0nw0ng123

    did you try my code? Was it successful?

    Please report back if you still have any issues!

    All the best,
    Torsten

    Thread Starter exchange-nl

    (@jas0nw0ng123)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,

    Thanks for your reply!

    I have tried to copy the code in the code snippet plugin, and then my site was broke….

    I had to enter WordPress through recovery mode and remove the code snippet plugin in order to make my site works again

    Maybe I have done something wrong in the process, I am not so sure, so I gave up on this…

    Plugin Contributor Torsten Landsiedel

    (@zodiac1978)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    I have tried to copy the code in the code snippet plugin, and then my site was broke….

    I am really sorry, that this happened to you. This is a bug in our documentation. 🙁

    It needs to be this:

    add_filter( 'ab_get_allowed_translate_languages', function( $languages ) {
  $languages['cmn'] = 'Mandarin Chinese';
  return $languages;
});

    (“=” instead of “=>”)

    I’ve tested this code and it works. Now you can choose “Mandarin Cinese” too.

    Sorry again for the inconvenience!

    All the best
    Torsten

    Thread Starter exchange-nl

    (@jas0nw0ng123)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Torsten,

    It is working now! Thanks for your help!

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