November 6, 2006

bot-check 1.2: Wordpress anti-spam comment plugin

Category: Software, Internet — by Amit Chaudhary @ 10:31 pm

bot-check is a Wordpress anti-spam comment plugin originally developer by Brian at Blue Eye web development.

botcheck-image.png

I have made changes to get it working with the latest Wordpress, version 2.0.5 which is used to host this blog. It requires GDlib and MCRYPT.
Download: bot-check-1.2.tar.gz

Changes:

-Make bot-check work for Wordpress 2.0.5 by correcting the add_filter call in bot-check.php

-Fixed the occassional corrupt image being displayed

-Fixed the comment being wiped out incase of incorrect or empty number (Captcha) field.

See install.txt in the file above for installation and license details (GPL, v2.)

PS: From what I know, bot-check works only with Wordpress 2.0.x. I do not have any plans right now for Wordpress 2.x or later.

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11 Comments »

  1. i’d really love to use your plugin but i’m having a majorly tough time getting mcrypt installed. even though i have libmcrypt properly installed, when i try to compile mcrypt it says libmcrypt can’t be found. :(

    i’ve putzed with it for an hour already.

    is there any chance you can make a nother version that uses a different encryption scheme that’s not dependent on mcrypt?

    Comment by mobius — November 20, 2006 @ 3:02 am

  2. Sorry, no plan for that.

    Amit

    Comment by Amit D. Chaudhary — November 20, 2006 @ 9:09 am

  3. Thankyou so much for updating this plugin, it has also seemed to have fixed my occasional garbled code.

    Comment by Michelle — March 11, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

  4. i am sourcing for a captcha plugin like this one.
    the blue bg is too high contrast. possible to change the variable/setting at my end?

    Comment by Ixwebhosting — May 24, 2007 @ 9:39 pm

  5. To change the image used as background, copy any of the other images in wp-content/bot-check/ to bc-image.png.
    Try cp botcheck-image-orig.png bc-image.png or cp botcheck-image-FFD49C.png bc-image.png

    Amit

    Comment by Amit D. Chaudhary — May 25, 2007 @ 12:44 am

  6. Great to have this anti-spam checker. Can it also work for current version of Wordpress?

    thanks!

    Comment by Wordpress Quickstart Guy — August 19, 2007 @ 5:28 am

  7. I am currently running Wordpress v2.2.1 and am trying to get the plugin to work. I log into my blog as admin but the plugin is not showing. When I try to go to the bot-check.php file directly, I get the following error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_filter() in /home/bryan/public_html/Journal/wp-content/plugins/bot-check.php on line 23

    How can I solve this issue?

    Thanks,
    Bryan

    Comment by Bryan R. Meyer — September 17, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

  8. Hello Bryan,

    Sorry, I have not yet moved to Wordpress 2.2, probably have it working in the next month or so.

    Regards
    Amit

    Comment by Amit D. Chaudhary — September 17, 2007 @ 5:14 pm

  9. Amit:

    Definitely looking forward to it. Thanks!

    Bryan

    Comment by Bryan R. Meyer — September 17, 2007 @ 6:56 pm

  10. is it work for wordpress 2.3?

    Comment by izwan00 — October 13, 2007 @ 11:39 am

  11. izwan,

    No, it might not work for WP later than 2.0.x.

    Amit

    Comment by Amit D. Chaudhary — October 13, 2007 @ 1:03 pm

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