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January 09, 2005
My Website Fall Down, Go Boom
So yesterday I decided to find a better way to allow people to comment without offering myself up, spread-eagle, to any spam commenters out there but at the same time be more convenient than the TypeKey/approval method I was using.
So I found this cool plugin for Movable Type that allows the commenter to type in a little code to submit (I think Ticketmaster uses the same technology - the image codes you have to type in which is supposed to prevent a computer from posting spam).
Anyway, I noticed that the plugin only worked on Movable Type 3.1 or later. I had 3.0. No problem, I'd been meaning to upgrade to the latest version for a while.
Long story short, I think I screwed something up so I had to rebuild most of the core elements of this blog from relative scratch.
That being said, you can now comment freely and hopefully the MT-Blacklist plugin I finally installed (which is a different plugin than the one I was going to originally use) will catch all the spam.
If for any reason you reaaally need to see past posts, you can still get to them from here. That link goes to my last entry before the screw-up and allows you to find earlier entries via the "archive" and "recent" links on the right sidebar.
Bear with me.
*UPDATE* - I've re-archived every entry since the beginning of November, and am now going through all my old entries and re-posting the ones I think should be re-posted.
DA
Posted by DAve at January 9, 2005 09:20 AM
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Hey, any time you can mention "MT-Blacklist plugin" and "Movable Type 3.1 or later" in the same post, you know you've got a winner.
No seriously, that was the most boring blog post in the history of the Internet. Solid work.
Posted by: Josh Massey at January 11, 2005 11:58 PM
Were you trying to install James Seng's CAPTCHA plugin? I worked on that for a whole afternoon a couple weeks ago and couldn't get it to work, so you're not the only one. Since going back to MT 3.14 and MT-B 2.03b, though, things have been pretty peachy.
Posted by: tony at January 13, 2005 04:49 PM
