Mecworks

10/26/2004

Added more plugins

Filed under: Linux — marc @ 11:16 pm

I’ve added several plugins to the site. The latest, in an effort to thwart comment spam which I get almost immediately after making a post, is a human-verification plugin. Now, before making a comment, you have to type in a code presented in a graphic which is difficult for automated software to read. Unfortunately it’s also difficulf for sight-impared people to post comments but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it…for now, hopefuly I’ll have little or no comment spam. We’ll see.

4 Comments »

  1. I’m having a hard time getting this to work–I get the grey box but no text. Apache error log talks about /path/to/wordpress/date_files/authimage.jpg not found.

    Comment by todd — 11/4/2004 @ 11:04 am

  2. I had the same problems. It seems that the PHP script is having a hard time finding the font file so in the peice of code that is placed in my-hacks.php, in function createCodeImage(), I changed

    $font = "atomicclockradio.ttf";

    to

    $font = "./atomicclockradio.ttf";

    so that it has a relative path. Go figure, it worked.

    Comment by marc — 11/4/2004 @ 12:39 pm

  3. Ahh, I had to change a couple of paths but missed that one. I actually had to use an absolute path to get it to work. :?

    Thanks!

    Comment by todd — 11/4/2004 @ 2:47 pm

  4. No problem - glad it worked for you and that I’m not the only one that has seen the issue.

    Comment by marc — 11/4/2004 @ 2:52 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Powered by WordPress