{"id":1760,"date":"2012-02-16T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2012-02-16T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:32:49","slug":"blog-hassles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2012\/02\/16\/blog-hassles\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog hassles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla WordPress installation was upgraded a couple of days ago.\u00a0 I had a simple captcha plug-in enabled before this (I don&#8217;t remember it&#8217;s name).\u00a0 It asked you to solve a very simple arithmetic problem (e.g. &#8220;what is 1+1&#8221;) before your comment would appear.\u00a0 It was very effective at stopping spam comments.\u00a0 Prior to me enabling it I would get\u00a0 numerous spam comments per post which I had to manually delete.<\/p>\n<p>After the upgrade, this plug-in doesn&#8217;t seem to be available any more.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a plug-in called &#8220;simple CAPTCHA&#8221; which is a picture-based one.\u00a0 I turned it on but some people reported problems, there were some double-posts, and when I tested it the captcha image didn&#8217;t load properly.\u00a0 Furthermore, spam comments still seemed to be getting through.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?\u00a0 None of the other spam-fighting plug-ins seem appropriate.\u00a0 Really, I just want my simple arithmetic problem captcha back.\u00a0 If I can&#8217;t get something working I might have to require people login before commenting.\u00a0 But I&#8217;d rather not do that, as it will deter some commenters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla WordPress installation was upgraded a couple of days ago.\u00a0 I had a simple captcha plug-in enabled before this (I don&#8217;t remember it&#8217;s name).\u00a0 It asked you to solve a very simple arithmetic problem (e.g. &#8220;what is 1+1&#8221;) before your comment would appear.\u00a0 It was very effective at stopping spam comments.\u00a0 Prior to me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5865],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}