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Why would anoyne urge against this?
1) Because when you upgrade, your changes get overwritten.
2) Because if the changes start to purge legitimate comments, you won’t even know it.
3) Because there are drop-in plugin options that offer additional/superior features.
4) Because unlike the plugins, this can’t adapt to future spammers unless you maintain it.
Still, better that you’re doing something to stop the spam.
Most of the plugins on Podz’s page do what this hack does and only require uploading a file and turning it on in the WP admin.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Exhibit and images folderI don’t think so. Never *cough* 2.0 *cough* tried that.
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In reply to: EzStatic PluginIncidentally, now that I’m thinking about it, there are certain things that you can’t do inside of a static page to be inserted by EzStatic. I’ll have to look at it again to remind myself what it is, and when I do, I’ll document it on my wiki.
Nonetheless, one of the files that you can’t include that way is the Nicer Archives file, archives.php. If you want to use Nicer Archives in EzStatic, I’ve provided a working version on the EzStatic download page. It works fine, as you can see on my site here:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/_archives
aka
http://www.asymptomatic.net/index.php?static=archivesForum: Plugins
In reply to: Dates To RememberMez,
I’ve replied to your email. Your issue is fixed. There was no need to cross-post here. Nice patience on your part.
This type of thing gets me very frustrated about continuing support for any of my plugins.
For the rest of you, I’m glad you like the Countdown plugin. I’ve released alpha 3, which fixes a couple of bugs (couldn’t put two events on the same date!), and adds a feature or two. It’s also got the readme.txt file in it – Doh!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: EzStatic PluginMore extensive documentation concerning EzStatic is now available here:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/_wiki/EzStatic
Download the latest version (1.7) here:
http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacksForum: Plugins
In reply to: Exhibit 1.1 Photo Gallery PluginBe sure you’re using the version for 1.3, it’s a separate download. Not that this is guaranteed to fix your issue.
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In reply to: EzStatic PluginWhatever the problem is, it’s caused by your mail1.php page. Check out this URL:
http://www.philpeeps.com/wp/index.php?static=readme
That loads the WordPress readme.html file. It makes your page look funny because it includes the stylesheet from the readme.
Why don’t you try coding your form as a static HTML file, and submit the form to a PHP file that redirects?Forum: Plugins
In reply to: EzStatic PluginAdded internal support for Kubrick 1.3 theme in WordPress 1.3.
Removed ability to display files starting with dot.
New download: http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacksForum: Plugins
In reply to: EzStatic Plugin@philpeeps: You need to enable the plugin in the WordPress administration panel. Go to the Plugins tab and activate EzStatic.
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In reply to: Dates To RememberNo, this is a forward-looking date gadget.
This plugin will return the next X dates in your list, and can be configured very flexibly. For example, you can tell it that Memorial Day is the last monday in May:
last monday may Memorial Day
Or that my birthday is the same day every year:
07-04 Owen's Birthday
Or that your 2004 office Christmas party is next Tuesday:
2004-12-14 Office X-Mas Party!
You can put in links, too:
2004-12-10 Secret Santa Emails arrive
But something like what you described doesn’t really require all of the overhead of the date processing that this does.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: safe mode errors in spam karma..Remove the set_time_limit() line from spam-karma.php, and change your php.ini timeout value to something higher than 30 seconds.
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In reply to: Exhibit 1.1d Photo Gallery PluginThanks for the info, Anonymous.
Most people have these packages installed by their hosts already, so it’s not an issue for them, but it’s very helpful to know the process that might be required if you don’t have everything set up already.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: EzStatic PluginEzStatic won’t let you do that for reasons of security. If it let you go up through your directory tree, you could possibly access files in places other than your web diretory. That’s not good.
Instead, put the files directly in the same directory as WP’s index.php. You can put them in a subdirectory in there, if you like.
If you arleady have the pages you want in another place, you’ll have to play with the EzStatic source to allow access to your other directory.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment SpamWe don’t want you to have those comments, either, since you would be letting the spammers think they can get away with torquing their pagerank by spamming anyone’s blogs. The more they get the impression that this is too much work, the less we’ll have to worry.
That isn’t to say that it’s not going to get worse. And it also isn’t to say that it will ever get better. But we’ve got to try, right?
I don’t think the video poker guy is getting anything out of spamming us. I’ve probably totalled 600 or more messages from him since Friday, and I already had filtering in place to stop it, so they’ve not shown on my blog at all.
Besides that, the sites that he been pointing to have apparently all been shut down, so the page ranking isn’t even worth it for him.
In fact, the only thing it’s really doing is giving me a more complete list of open proxies whose IPs I can block.
Have you tried this yet? It’s kind of fascinating…
First, go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ and note your IP address.
Copy the IP address of the origin of one of your spam messages. Go into Firefox Options, General, Connection Settings. Click “Manual Proxy Configuration”. In the HTTP field, paste the spam IP. Set the port to 80 (or 8080 if 80 doesn’t work).
Go back to http://www.whatismyip.com/ and compare. Neat, huh?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment SpamDavid:
The logic seems sound, although you’re running the filters on the comment twice (once for checking for links, once for output). Apart from the processor hit, it should do what it’s supposed to.
Alternatively, you could check for a regex that looks “domain-like” and bounce that? (I’m not going to get this right, but maybe ‘|\b([a-z0-9_-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4}\b|i’ ?) Just thinking aloud.