Browsing articles from "October, 2006"

AuthImage For WordPress Comments

Oct 8, 2006   //   by Rich   //   The Interweb  //  2 Comments

After spending hours and hours hacking around in PHP and configuration files I have finally setup AuthImage on comments. For those who don’t know, AuthImage is a plugin script that generates an image from a list of random words. This is called CAPTCHA. This is a program that can generate and grade tests that most humans can pass, but current computer programs can’t pass.

The user, who is about to comment on your blog, has to type in the word that appears as an image in order to submit the post. This is becoming a very popular method of combating spam.

Here’s how to set it up:

  1. Download the ZIP file
  2. Extract the contents to your /plugins directory
  3. Go through the steps in the instructions document
  4. Enjoy!

FYI: If you are using any cool AJAX stuff on your comments (like I am) it may not work unless you update the AJAX script to let the validation happen before the AJAX goes crazy!

The Second Web Standards Meeting in London

Oct 7, 2006   //   by Rich   //   The Interweb  //  No Comments

Thursday 19th October @ Westminster University

This is the second web standards meeting to happen in London. Some of the guys went along to the first one and said it was good. I’m going to head down and check it out. Hopefully this will become a regular meet similar to our Australian counterparts.

Find out more and sign-up here.

If you are going to head down drop me a line.

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