Tag: WordPress

Announcing SK2 – Moderate Plugin

On By westiIn Development, WordPress

Now available for a Spam Karma 2 install near you: SK2 Moderate Plugin.

What it does:

Enforces the main WordPress admin setting “An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)” (under Options … Discussion) within Spam Karma – The plugin ensures that the highest karma level a comment can achieve is -1 so that all comments must be moderated before appearing on your site.

Why it does it:

Some people see this as a deficiency in Spam Karma 2, they think that even with the level of protection provided this WordPress option should be observed – now they have the choice.

Please visiting the permanent page for the plugin for more info and to download.

WordPress Version Check

On By westiIn Development, Security, WordPress27 Comments

Recently a lot of people have been hit by a wordpress security vulnerability that was fixed with an hour of it being reported about a month ago. Why have they fallen prey to this vulnerability – because they failed to update to the latest version for one of many possible reasons:

  1. Laziness.
  2. They failed to notice the post on the dev blog in their wordpress dashboard.
  3. They failed to notice the number of people blogging about having upgraded.
  4. etc

To help alleviate this problem in the future I have crafted a simple wordpress plugin which takes a simple approach to get the users attention. Once activated the plugin checks an XML-RPC webservice for update news displaying a message at the top of every page in the wordpress admin user-interface. The plugin will check for an update to the message every 15 mins with an additional check being kicked off if the installed wordpress version changes so as to give instant feedback on upgrades.
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