October 20, 2004

Blacklists keep on rolling :p

After the release of WPBlacklist 2.6, I got a couple of reports about a problem with the path in the installer utility. I had put the path in for my server where the WP installation is in the root server and had not tested things out thoroughly enough to catch the fact that this code would fail if somebody had WP installed in a sub-folder. I’d created a fix and was about to release a bug-fix release when a few other problems caught my eye. So I fixed all of them but then got caught up in some other stuff and didn’t have the time to test any of the changes till today. I guess comment spam is on the rise again because I’ve been getting a lot of reports from people who’ve tried the WPBlacklist plugin and found the error. So, to stem the tide of complaints, I decided to quickly test my changes and release WPBlacklist 2.6.1 :p Enjoy!

Update: Since everybody seems to link to this entry for WPBlacklist, I thought I’d add an update to point to the WPBlacklist page which actually has the latest version, which at the time of this update had a release of WPBlacklist which was 3 sub-versions ahead :p

Tags: Coding, Site, WordPress
Posted by Fahim at 9:49 am   Comments (54)

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Narada 21 October 2004 at 12:27 am

Hi. I’ve just installed this for the first time after being referred here by weblogtoolscollection.com. I just wanted to say thanks for all the work you’ve done. Let’s see how this goes. Now I must wait not too impatiently for some spam!

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andrew 18 November 2004 at 10:27 am

in fact, I just got the same errors posting that to here…

tested on multiple browsers… same effect.

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Fahim 18 November 2004 at 10:46 am

This is a common problem – the cause and the way to fix it is mentioned in my WPBlacklist page at: http://sm.farook.org/WPBlacklist.htm – under the FAQ section. Hope that helps 🙂

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noPLOG » Blog Archive » Spam-Blacklisting 22 November 2004 at 5:19 pm

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色影小寨Photo543 25 November 2004 at 11:00 am

Blacklist的更新問題
早上發覺被一個白目的Comment Spam滲透Blacklist,接下來把它的Domain列為Blacklist後發覺網頁失常,一查才發覺Blacklist更新不能直接打入”/”的字元,必須用”/”,否則Blacklist會過濾失常。所以更新…

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Funkdub 03 February 2005 at 7:53 am

just wanted to say thanks! I can finally open up my new site to genuine comments and posters without all that cacky spam! (hopefully!)

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[m i a o w] the cat » Victory 05 November 2004 at 12:30 am

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[m i a o w] the cat » Victory 05 November 2004 at 12:46 am

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Anomalia grafica » Trencaspammers 13 November 2004 at 12:04 pm

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Katie 06 February 2005 at 12:45 am

I’m updating from a way earlier version, and have found that my blacklist table is missing a column (guess the earlier table didn’t have it?) any suggestions?

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martinh.co.uk » Comment Spam! 03 February 2005 at 1:44 pm

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Le petit monde de Timtom 06 December 2004 at 8:19 pm

Comment spam
I discovered this morning that I had now rejoined the unhappy victims of comment spam. I started deleting all these online-gambling and casino crap by hand, but I soon discovered that it was not a satisfactory long-term solution. So I sacrificated my c…

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