WP-BlackCheck

1. 

   The Admin-Page

What happens if a blocked IP hits my site?

The Plugin does not prevent reading of your blog. But if a blocked IP tries to post a comment
WP-BlackCheck will block it, displaying a link to the removal request form.

What happens if I am blacklisted?

I’d assume that spammers do not authenticate against your blog. The plugin will block your comments if you are not logged in.

I am blacklisted! What now?

Just follow the link to http://www.stargazer.at/blacklist/ and follow the instructions on the page.

Why should I report Spam?

Spammers usually hit quite a few servers with their IPs. It’s pretty uncommon that you are the only one who has been hit from that IP. Sharing that info prevents Spam on other blogs.

WP-BlackCheck is not available in (insert language here)

The plugin comes with a file named wp-blackcheck.pot which contains the messages printed. Feel free to translate it into your language and send the .mo and .po file back to me, so I can include it into the next release.

2.7.2

• Bugfix release – fixed forgotten closing bracket in precheck.

2.7.1

• Do not mess with Akismet (who uses that function anyways?)
• Unhide config options for faster setup
• Viktoria Rei Bauer taking over

2.7.0

• Implement redirection of spammers (i.e. send them to the fbi website)
• Implement comment hash checking
• relocate some functions to functions.inc.php (where they should be)
• Increase HTTP Timeout for Web-Requests to avoid some server problems

2.6.2

• fix wpbc_get_comments_approved

2.6.1

• Add counter for reported IPs
• Fix bar graph text issue
• New Webservice URL

2.6.0

• Improve trackback/pingback checks
• Remove obsolete trap field
• Fix update notifications

2.5.1

• Fix typo in function name
• adjust speed check

2.5.0

• Add Icon to reporting
• Adjust speedcheck to more realistic values
• Add another Spam trap (dummy field)
• Relocate ‘Report Spam’ as it belongs to ‘tools’
• Update translations
• Add statistics
• Fixed bug with the blocked spam counter
• Fixed bug with header checks
• Reorder spam checks to be more effective
• Some cosmetic changes

2.4.0

• Update notification optional
• E-Mail notification
• Known problems -> FAQ

2.3.0

• Honor previously approved comment settings from WordPress (whitelist)
• Replace comment time with type rate (keystrokes per second via comment length)
• Encrypt timestamp to make it less obvious

2.2.2

• Another overlooked function.

2.2.1

• Fix reporting function

2.2.0

• Prefix ALL functions with wpbc_ to avoid clashes with other plugins
• Update Notifications
• Checking for PHP/WP Requirements
• Detect Akismet to work with it
• Purge old comments
• Make sure we meet the requirements

2.1.1

• Fixed notification bug

2.1.0

• Add config option for speedlimit
• Add ‘reset to defaults’ function
• Add Settings to plugin-page
• Add warning for outdated settings
• Support wp_remote_post()
• Split off pre-checks
• Use WP-CSS stuff for warnings/alerts
• Language fixes

2.0.0

• Localization
• Rewrite speed limit code
• Add debug code for speed limit
• Fix spam counting for queue

1.12

• Split off some functions to functions.inc.php, relocated some code to improve readability
• Corrected typo in wp_die message
• Improve trackback handling
• Improve some message texts

1.11

• Add Link-Limit
• Add explicit trackback/pingback check for proxy servers
• Add check for valid trackback/pingback URL

1.10.1

• bugfix release to fix whitespace issue and typo in request

1.10

• Code cleanup and inline documentation
• Fix direct access to admin-page
• Check permissions before doing the admin page
• Set report stacks to 100 IPs at once
• Fix issues with IPv6
• Add throttle for spammers hitting the server quite heavy
• Add option to decline bbCode and optionally report them automatically
• Add option to decline comments that come in too fast and optionally report them automatically
• Exclude pingbacks/trackbacks from our checks

1.9

• Add admin-page
• Add reporting in chunks
• Make statistics optional

1.8

• Remove multiple Spam-comment per IP check
• Fix Spam deletion
• Prepare limit for reporting in chunks

1.7

• Tighten Security
• Add statistics

1.6

• Integrated Report Button into comments view

1.5

• Corrected messages
• Fixed comment IP querying

1.4

• Changed Spam count before reporting
• Empty quarantine now supported

1.3

• If someone hits us 3 times, it’s most likely NOT an accident

1.2

• Remove reported Spam to prevent double reports

1.1

• Add reporting

1.0

• Initial release
• Simple check against the centralized blacklist