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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 [...]

Voor zij die allerlei problemen hebben met inloggen na de upgrade naar Wordpress 2.6: gewoon je cookiecache - of de specifiek cookies van Wordpress - in je browser ledigen. En dan nog eens proberen om opnieuw in te loggen.
Wat is nu de oorzaak van dit probleem? Ryan Boren’s artikel SSL and Cookies in Wordpress 2.6 [...]

Wordpress 2.6 just got released. It contains lots of bug fixes and new features. Like versioning if you work in a collaborative environment, a ‘press this’ button, extended gravatar support and much more. Watch the introductory movie on wordpress.org. 2.6 is named ‘Tyner’ after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.
Of course, I’m going to test the plugin [...]

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 I had an little bit outdated version of the plugin running.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

It took me the better part of June to prepare a new version of Mollom. But today I released version 0.5.0. You can download the package here.
So, a lot has changed since version 0.4.0…

I rewrote the SQL after this suggestion on Pressed Words. Mollom now uses it’s own table to store all it’s data instead [...]

These two weren’t the best friends over the past couple of weeks. Since someone notified me they weren’t compatible, it took some time to figure out what was going wrong. My initial suspects was an icky way of dealing with the action hooks. Either by my plugin or WP OpenID. But after extensive testing, I [...]

Well, nothing more to say for now: it’s out. You can download and play with it. It’s a first beta version so beasts can roar it’s head if you have a heavily customized wordpress installation with loads of plugins. Please, drop me a line with all your feedback, code, concerns, requests!
A big thank you to [...]

So. I scheduled a first public beta release of my Mollom plugin somewhere tonight (CET/UTC+1). The plugin runs quite stable on my own weblog and spam is happily being blocked. I didn’t receive major complaints from testers or users on my own blog in the past week. Yesterday, I cleared the code with Dries who [...]

Dries made me a nice diagram on the process flow of Mollom. It shows the order in which your Mollom programmable should excute the different API calls.
Note: You should never try to save data to the database before all the Mollom checks including the CAPTCHA have been cleared. The idea is that through the challenge-response [...]

Because numbers and graphics can express so much more then words: a visualisation of how Mollom is protecting my blog against spam. I’ve been testing my plugin on and off for the past 2 weeks on my own blog.

The new beta release is almost ready by the way. Just need to pack and ship it [...]

So I did put up a small project page. Not much to see for now. But it’s a start…

Well, I adjusted some of the plugin code over the weekend. The comments’ data (name, e-mail, url, content) isn’t stored in the database anymore but embedded in the CAPTCHA form as a collection of hidden fields. As I don’t want to store the data clientside (cookies and the likes) this seems to be the best [...]

Today, I had an e-mail discussion with Dries and Benjamin over the use of a moderation queue within the context Mollom provides. I have on implemented in my plugin. The idea is that ‘unsure’ comments that don’t get through the CAPTCHA test, land in a moderation queue… sort of.

Mollom was actually designed to get rid [...]

Okay. It’s been almost two weeks since I released the first installment of my Mollom plugin to the testers. I got some feedback and started hacking away. I’m almost ready to release a new betaversion. So, here’s a list of what’s been improved:

Added: bulk moderation of unmoderated comments
Added: policy mode. If Mollom services are down, [...]

Hum. The plugin in Wordpress doesn’t support trackback checking yet. No big deal? Well, I have 24 spams in my moderation queue, the majority of them are trackback spam.
So… yet another feature to implement. Just wondering how the flow of operations should look like. Moreover: how/where do I implement a CAPTCHA? Is it necessary to [...]

Yesterday, I made a last codingscram and implemented the entire feedback/moderationqueue in the dashboard. It works acceptable enough to put out a very rough betaversion out to the testers. Which I did yesterday-evening. I’m very curious about their feedback. I’ve already listed some points that will need improvement.
If you’d like to participate in testing please [...]

Zo. We zijn een half dagje verder. Dit is de tussenstand: 0 spammers door de mazen van het net gegelipt. 7 spams in de moderation queue waarvan er 3 door jullie werden achtergelaten. 1 spam (Houbi) per ongeluk in de moderation queue blijven hangen. Niettegenstaande de mens legit is.
Kijk, voorlopig laat ik alles daar even [...]