After a local test run of WP-BlackCheck Version 2.2, I decided to say it’s safe for global usage.. The highlights of this version are: Update notifications Checking for Requirements Purging of old comments Some language improvements Update: As I did hit a bug on 2.2.0 I had to release the bugfix release 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 to prevent you […]

This is a short report about the happenings around WP-BlackCheck. The Blacklist itself just entered the 40000th IP address to the list. By now I am test-driving the new version to be to find the latest bugs and eliminate the dependencies towards akismet. By now I implemented a couple of options which should help you to ease administration […]

After working with WP-BlackCheck Version 2.0, I had a couple of new ideas and corrections to be applied to the plugin which made me release Version 2.1.0 by now. The highlights of this version are: Reset to factory defaults Speedlimit is now adjustable Usage of the new WordPress functions like wp_remote_post Some language improvements Warnings if the config […]

The new version number of my plugin indicates, that a big thing happened: WP-BlackCheck speaks foreign languages now. Other changes were minor changes under the hood to keep things smooth.

Just a quick note about my plugin again: WP-BlackCheck 1.12 has just been released. Changes happened mostly ‘under the hood’ to improve the code.

WP-BlackCheck 1.11 is my latest work here, adapting to the current spam situation of my blog. Due to much trackback spam, some improvements were done here too. Another check about link-counts got implemented. Please give me feedback if things work and what spam does look like on your blog.