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It’s been a few months since I’ve let anything out about the development of WP Mollom. Due to my freelancing activities, the project didn’t got the attention it really deserved. But now I’m shifting focus again, and I’ll be able to spend more time on this plugin in the near future.
First up: the development version [...]

One of my ongoing efforts is trying to get WP Mollom translated. I’ve put the plugin up on the wp-polyglots mailinglist and I’ve received several translations. Which was enough a reason to tag a new release. So, now you can enjoy the power of Mollom in these languages:

Vietnamese (vi)
Bulgarian (bg_BG)
Bangla (bn_BD)

I’ve already written about revising [...]

Mollom blocked over fifty million spam attempts since its inception. Just over two months ago, that was little over twenty-five million. Just in the past 24 hours, Mollom caught 480,000 attempts. This shows how important it is to get the best protection that can guarantee a clear user experience. It also shows that Mollom is [...]

Another month, a new release. I just tagged WP Mollom 0.7.3. It’s got the shortest changelog up to date, but the translations that are included make up for that.

fixed: multiple moderation would incorrectly state ‘moderation failed’ due to incorrect set boolean.
added: german (de_DE) translation
added: italian (it_IT) translation

Many thanks go out to Alexander Langer and [...]

I just released version 0.7.2 of WP Mollom. Here’s the changelist

fixed: closing a gap that allowed bypassing checkContent through spoofing $_POST['mollom_sessionid']
fixed: if mb_convert_encoding() is not available, the CAPTCHA would generate a PHP error. Now falls back to htmlentities().
improved: the check_trackback_content and check_comment_content are totally rewritten to make them more secure.
added: user roles capabilities. You can [...]

I just released WP Mollom 0.7.1. Here’s the changelog:

fixed: all plugin panels are now shown in the new WP 2.7 administration interface menu
fixed: non-western character sets are now handled properly in the captcha form
fixed: handles threaded comments properly
fixed: multiple records in the manage module not correctly processed
improved: extra – non standard – fields added to [...]

Yes. Wordpress 2.7 is out. Your favorite blogging tool has gotten a serious overhaul: a totally new administration panel, loads of bugfixes and lots of new features.
The plugin API has been extended: you should now use a seperate file to store all uninstallation logic instead of relying on the deactivate callback, options should be registered [...]

I just tagged major version 0.7.0 of WP Mollom in the Wordpress Plugin Repository. Why a major leap (0.6 > 0.7)? Over the past month or two, in between my traveling and all that, I got my plugin taking full advantage of the great translation support in Wordpress. So, it’s possible now to translate (or [...]

Zaterdag trek ook ik naar BarcampGent 2. De vorige editie in maart heeft me, via Bunker, mijn huidige job opgeleverd en mag dus terecht een succes worden genoemd. Alleen vond ik mijn eigen presentatie toen zelf wat tegen vallen. Gebrek aan een goed onderwerp en voorbereiding eigenlijk.
Voor deze editie liggen de kaarten anders. Deze keer [...]

Translating Wordpress has always been very easy through gettext and tools like poedit. The availability of a whole range of languages and dialects that can be used to replace the standard English messages in Wordpress is one of the factors that has contributed to the success of the CMS.
Of course, this support for translation is [...]

Since a couple of weeks people using WP Mollom got hit by some spam. On friday, Bert took the problem to Twitter, which caught my attention. Of course, we want to get rid of all the spam and so I notified Dries.
Over the weekend, Dries did some research in the logfiles and noticed some disturbing [...]

I just tagged version 0.6.1 of WP Mollom in the Wordpress Extend repository. Which means in a few moments, you’ll be able to download the latest installment of my plugin.
So, what has changed? Well, this is a bugfix release which means no new features. Here’s the changelog:

Fixed: division by 0 error on line 317
Fixed: if [...]

Congratulations are in order as the Mollom guys went out of beta over the weekend. Great! They did several upgrades to their service over the past weeks including improving their spam deterrents and the visual CAPTCHA.
When you settle with a free account, Mollom allows 100 legit comments to be posted on your blog a day. [...]

On the 1st of september, kids go back to school here in Belgium. And so, with a week to go, I was able to get a new release out. I intended it to be a bugfix release with version number 0.5.3, but I got a bit carried away and some feature creep happened. So I [...]

So, D’Arcy Norman installed WP Mollom on his blog and gave it a week to do better then Akismet, SK2 and others. Here’s his review.

So, Dries and Benjamin put out t-shirts to all those who contributed in a way to Mollom. If all went well, and Belgian postal services did their job, a package with a tee would be waiting for me at home right now. A big thank you!
Over the past days, there were some hiccups with the [...]

So, I wrapped up version 0.5.2 of WP Mollom today. This release is all about fixing several bugs.

fixed: passing $comment instead of the direct input from $_POST to the show_captcha() and check_captcha() functions.
improved: implemented wpdb->prepare() in vunerable queries
improved: mollom_activate() function now more robust
changed: mollom_author_ip() reflects changes in the API documentation. This is to catch up [...]

Over the past days, there were some hiccups with WP Mollom on my blog. Comments that were kept back and the likes. I had an little bit outdated version of the plugin running. Of course, over the past weeks since 0.5.1, I received quite some feedback. And over the weekend, there was a small adjustement [...]

The plugin got featured over the weekend on mollom.com. It has now it’s own place in their downloadsection. How neat is that!

During my four days of relaxing at Rock Werchter, I received some much needed feedback from you. Over the weekend, I realized there are still an issue or two which needs taking care of. [...]

I just released a minor update of WP Mollom with some bugfixes. This is the changelog:

Fixed: minor issues with the Captcha not being rendered correctly
Added: mollom_manage_wp_queue() function which adds Mollom support to the default comment administration panel
Improved: updating from a previous version is now more robust

More info and download on Wordpress Extend