rjacob

Akismet used to be great. but over the last few months, a lot of very obvious spam comments are getting through. I am having to delete spams every single day now. Not sure what the deal is, but it is getting annoying.

I had a similar issue with my first blog. It had been up two weeks, then suddenly it was gone. WordPress could not connect to the MySQL database. I used utility to access the database directly, and found someone else’s posts in there. After some research, I found that someone else had requested a MySql database using the same database name (wordpress), and username (wordpress), and their blog overwrote mine. So I had them set me up again, but this time I chose unique names.

RJ https://www.TravelWithRJ.com

Now…I am having my own problem. I have been using wp-shortstat for quite while now. I have even heavily modified my own version add new stats for search engines, top pages for the day, etc.
I upgraded to WP2 yesterday, and wp-shortstat stopped logging traffic to my site. I switched to the original version, and same thing. The stats display page works fine. I dropped the tables, and it recreated fine. Everything seems to be working fine except it is not logging any visits to my site. It is like the track hook is not being triggered. Anybody else seeing this?

update: I just read else where that wp-shortstat worked fine with 2.0, but stopped working with wp 2.0.1. So maybe the shutdown hook got toasted in 2.0.1?

I have read this can be fixed by changing:
($wpss->$tz_offset+1):$wpss->$tz_offset)*3600)
to:
($wpss->tz_offset+1):$wpss->tz_offset)*3600)

Now they have switched to drug related sites! There appears to be one bastard out there running a script barraging my site with spam realated traffic. The hits start, then they stop, then restart the next day, and then stop. There is a definate pattern. None of there spam have seen the light of day on my site, but they are screwing up my stats, and chewing up my bandwidth!

It could be your theme too. I had an old version of the Devenir En Gris theme, and there was a bug in it. It didn’t check “comment_approved” status, and just displayed all of the comments.

I installed WP version 1.5.2, and that did seem to fix the issue! Thanks much! Now I can continue to develop my plugin without thinking I had done something wrong!

I’ll give it a shot, and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks!

Version 1.5

Anyone?

Just out of curiousity, what does marking a comment as spam do? Does help to prevent future spams by blocking that IP, or something?

Apparently I started with an old version of the theme. I will add the where clause, and that should fix it. Thanks much!

if ( $comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT comment_author, comment_author_url, comment_ID, comment_post_ID FROM $wpdb->comments ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 5”) ) :
?>

Should there be a where clause?

I have installed no plugins. The theme I am using is a tweaked version of “Devenir En Gris”. It has some php code that displays the comments:
<?php
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
echo ‘
‘ . sprintf(‘%s <span style=”text-transform: lowercase;”>on</span>
%s’, get_comment_author_link(), ‘comment_post_ID) . ‘#comment-‘ . $comment->comment_ID . ‘”>’ . get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID) . ”);
edit_comment_link(__(“Edit”), ‘ <small>(‘, ‘)</small>’);
echo ‘ ‘;
}
?>