Comments on: JSSpamBlock Modifications

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:37:28 +0000

Jinge, thanks for letting me know. I will be installing 2.3 on my own blog soon (after my mid-terms) and I will make sure jsspamblock works with it.

By: Jinge

Jinge — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:52:45 +0000

It seems like 1.4 dont work with WP 2.3

Heard it b4 ??

By: Stargazer

Stargazer — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:36:07 +0000

Hi Paul,

just wanted to let you know about my progress here watching and analyzing canned meat. I have noticed that most spam uses BBCode. So I hacked a small 10 lines plugin (in fact, there’ more comment than code). A comment preprocessor filter does most work:

if (preg_match(‘|\[url(\=.*?)?\]|is’, $comment['comment_content'])) wp_die(‘BBCode not accepted nor interpreted’);

By: Stargazer

Stargazer — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:25:04 +0000

Thanks for checking, Paul. If you want to, we could do some testing on my site.

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Stargazer, I have checked your blog and it looks like it is installed properly. You must be unfortunate enough to be found by a bot that does execute JavaScript. In the next version of JSSpamBlock I will include optional user agent logging, so that I can investigate this further.

Thanks for the comments,

Paul

By: Stargazer

Stargazer — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:40:56 +0000

Hello folks,

I have tried randomizing the input field names to see what happens. Still daily >40 spam comments in queue per day

Stargazer

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:07:51 +0000

Thanks Georg, I will put this in the next version.

By: Georg Kaindl

Georg Kaindl — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:00:22 +0000

Good to hear you are still working on the plugin!

One bug/problem I’ve been noticing with my own implementation (I’m not sure if the original JSSpamBlock is affected as well), is that it filters out trackbacks and pingbacks as well, since those are also handled like comments by Wordpress.

However, I’m using the following line of code to exclude those two special types of comments from the anti-spam logic, and it works nicely now. You will have to retrieve the comment from the database, though ($c in this case):

if (preg_match(‘/pingback/i’, $c->comment_type) || preg_match(‘/trackback/i’, $c->comment_type)) { /* always accept, Askimet should handle them */ }