{"id":712,"date":"2007-11-20T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/akismet-rocks-upgrades-bring-hiccups\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T20:25:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:25:47","slug":"akismet-rocks-upgrades-bring-hiccups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/akismet-rocks-upgrades-bring-hiccups\/","title":{"rendered":"Akismet rocks; upgrades bring hiccups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63056612@N00\/155554663\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/59\/155554663_89beb0ac63_m_d.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Spamwall by freezelight\" align='left' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOver the weekend I finally found time for a major set of upgrades to all of the family blogs.  One of many impetuses for this was the vast ocean of comment spam that I was dealing with from my blog.  I had a CAPTCHA plugin running on this blog which wasn&#8217;t always easy for human users to deal with, and which was largely failing to keep out the spam.  I was still getting 50-100 e-mails a day announcing the arrival of yet another bit of blog spam, and it sucked.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the upgrade I turned on the Akismet anti-spam plugin that now comes standard with WordPress, and man is it wonderful.  In the few days that it&#8217;s been working, it&#8217;s (correctly) identified roughly 100 spam messages per day, keeping them out of my mail spool and management work flow on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I only half turned off the old CAPTCHA plugin.  The plugin code was all turned off, but the formatting of the comment submission area still had a (now empty) box for the authentication image, and the box for you to type in the code (which you couldn&#8217;t see).  It turns out that you could post a comment ignoring the code, but that was hardly obvious from a user standpoint, and happily one of our regular readers pointed out the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the problem is now fixed, and I would be grateful if a few folks would post a randomoid comment on this post just to verify that all is now well.<\/p>\n<p>If the Akismet tool continues to do such a good job, I&#8217;d like to turn off moderation altogether so that people&#8217;s comments will appear immediately.  Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63056612@N00\/\">freezelight<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63056612@N00\/\">the cool photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/akismet\/\" title=\"Akismet\">Akismet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/blogging\/\" title=\"blogging\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/captcha\/\" title=\"captcha\">captcha<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/comment-spam\/\" title=\"comment spam\">comment spam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/spam\/\" title=\"spam\">spam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/wordpress\/\" title=\"WordPress\">WordPress<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/09\/we-can-all-make-history-come-alive\/\" title=\"We can all make history come alive (9 Jan 08)\">We can all make history come alive<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/07\/05\/upgraded-to-wp-251\/\" title=\"Upgraded to WP 2.5.1 (5 Jul 08)\">Upgraded to WP 2.5.1<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I finally found time for a major set of upgrades to all of the family blogs. One of many impetuses for this was the vast ocean of comment spam that I was dealing with from my blog. I had a CAPTCHA plugin running on this blog which wasn&#8217;t always easy for human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/20\/akismet-rocks-upgrades-bring-hiccups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akismet rocks; upgrades bring hiccups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[110,91,111,108,109,32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/15\/we-have-captchas-i-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":0},"title":"We have CAPTCHAs! (I think)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"First, my apologies for the lengthy silence. Things have been very busy, and I wiped out pretty hard on my bike two weeks ago (all is well now...more later...maybe?) and that slowed a lot of things down at a time when I really couldn't much afford it. Sigh. The happy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":107,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/26\/thinking-of-trying-captchas\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":1},"title":"Thinking of trying CAPTCHAs","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 May 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I just had to deal with an even 100 (!) spam comments posted to this weblog, mostly for medications promising endless nights of passion and fullfillment. At least that's a nice change from my e-mail spam, which has recently focussed on variants on the classic Nigerian oil scam. Thanks to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weblogs and CMS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weblogs and CMS","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/weblogs-and-cms\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/20\/captchas-rock\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":2},"title":"CAPTCHAs rock!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"20 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"The CAPTCHAs seem to be working really well. I haven't had a single piece of comment spam since I installed it, and several \"real\" people have been able to leave cool comments (so we're not keeping the good people out). It's a little weird to not have all the spam\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/13\/when-life-gives-you-spam-make-lemonade\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":3},"title":"When life gives you spam &#8211; make lemonade!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"13 Oct 05","format":false,"excerpt":"New Kid just posted a really wonderful analysis of a recent variant on the all-too-common Nigerian Oil Scam spam. What a hoot! Shows what can be accomplished if a keen mind is brought to bear on a problem of importance. Or, well, maybe not so much importance, but still quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":289,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/07\/more-implausible-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":4},"title":"More implausible spam","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"7 Jan 06","format":false,"excerpt":"I just got two copies of the same spam about 11 minute apart (never a good sign), and this one has a particularly bizarre premise. Some fellow claiming to have been a former archbishop in the Catholic church apparently has $7.2 million that he wants to pass along to me\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":264,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/28\/some-problems-with-captchas\/","url_meta":{"origin":712,"position":5},"title":"Some problems with CAPTCHAs","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"28 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr. Tozier was kind enough to get in touch with an example of a CAPTCHA image (see right) generated by the plug-in I'm trying out, and I must agree with his assessment that only a \"scarce class of psychics, known for their ability to read around the corners and edges\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}