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Plugin Description
JSSpamBock is an effective way to reduce comment spam without your commenters even knowing. Users without JavaScript can prove their identity by simply entering a given number. In browsers without JavaScript, the user is simply asked to enter a number to prove they are human.
Using with WP-Cache
WP-Cache is a WordPress plugin that caches pages on the server to improve site performance and lower the use of server resources. It will work with JSSpamBlock, but you must make a few changes first:
- Near the top of the plugin file, change the line that says
define('JSSPAMBLOCK_FORMLISTENER', true); to define('JSSPAMBLOCK_FORMLISTENER', false);.
- Find the directory of your current theme and find the comments page (usually comments.php). Find where it says
</form> and insert the following above that line: <!--mclude wp-content/plugins/jsspamblock.php--><!--/mclude--><!--mfunc jsspamblock_doform() --><?php jsspamblock_doform(); ?><!--/mfunc-->
- Log into the WordPress admin panel and go to the Options tab. From there, go to the WP-Cache tab. Scroll down to the bottom and click the button that says “Delete cache”.
- Go back to your blog and try adding a comment. If everything worked out, you shouldn’t notice a difference.
Logging comments
JSSpamBlock can be set up to log comments. In the plugin file, change the line define('JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE', ''); to define('JSSPAMBLOCK_LOGFILE', 'yourlogfilename.txt');, where yourlogfilename.txt is the name of your log file. The path is relative to the base of your wordpress installation (where the index.php file is), so it is best to put the log in another directory. The log file must be editable by PHP, or else logging will not work and you may get an error.
Saving spam
By default, spam posts are removed from the database. Alternatively, JSSpamBlock provides an option to keep the spam in the database and simply mark it as spam so that WordPress will ignore it. Comments marked as spam will not show up in the admin panel, so this option is only useful if you have direct access to the database or you have a plugin that looks at comments marked as spam.
To enable this, change the line define('JSSPAMBLOCK_DELETECOMMENTS', true); to define('JSSPAMBLOCK_DELETECOMMENTS', false); in the plugin file.
License
Copyright (c) 2007 Paul Butler
This software is provided ‘as-is’, without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:
- The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
- Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
- This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
Screenshots
What a user without JavaScript installed will see.
What a bot will see, or a no-JS user who did not type in the code.
