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Captcha! Plugin español 

Warning! CAPTCHA! is DISABLED on this site.
Even though this plugin is still maitained, I’m using another one. Read why.

You can also go to the phorum for help.

I wanted my WordPress to have one of those nice Captchas challenges to avoid spam.

There are already some of them, but I found them not suitable for my webhosting service (Secureimage), or a bit weak (Trencaspammer). So I started my own based on the HN Captcha PHP class. To see a demo of this plugin just try to enter a comment on the main page (Okay, still in Spanish. Bilingual web soon to come).

Needs the GD library class, a Javascript compatible browser and TrueType fonts in a server folder to work. You can download some of TTF (TrueType) fonts for free from Dafont. The more artistic the font, the better the challenge will be.
The plugin allows to request another challenge if the current one is illegible.

Hope you enjoy it.

[Download] Current version of Captcha! plugin

Changelog:

See Changelog for previous versions ▼

Some sites using (or which used ;) ) this captcha:

[Uniform Server] [stefanrusche.de] [A Dose of Geekish Sanity] [Markus' Blog] [Silke Thoss] [scudly.com] [AAWakenings] [bdk… the man, the myth, the whatever…] [ElectroLund] [Pedja] [Outlandish Josh] [macslow.mine.nu] [Zoomer v2.0] [The BullPen Blog] [me blog] [Natalie Gulbis - Sport Memorabilia] [Bitte keine heiße Asche einwerfen] [Daniel Lemire’s blog] [Ido’s Blog] [Onderonsjes] [schimana.net] [Hillsidelounge] [MLL's web site] [Axel Segebrecht] [Normadicoder] [Laitsas’ Penguinblog]

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433 Responses to “Captcha! Plugin”

  1. 狗爺語錄 says:

    Some touch with calendar and style sheet. So happy that I don’t need to do anything regarding trackback and comment spam, despite the fact that I received tens of them everyday. These plugins are my savior:Captcha! Comment Authorization Trackback Validator

    2006-05-28 at 8.50 am
  2. 狗爺語錄 says:

    Some touch with calendar and style sheet. So happy that I don’t need to do anything regarding trackback and comment spam, despite the fact that I received tens of them everyday. These plugins are my savior:Captcha! Comment Authorization Trackback Validator

    2006-05-28 at 8.50 am
  3. Dott. FN - Dott. Federico Neri - Il Blog di Federico Neri says:

    stato costretto ad implementare un antispam per i commenti, a causa degli innumerevoli commenti di spam che ogni mattina sono costretto a rimuovere… Il filtro antispam consiste nella solita immagine da leggere e inserire nell’apposito riquadro (CaptCha!

    2006-05-27 at 7.54 am
  4. Jorge Diez says:

    , a mi blog le ha tocado sufrir desde hace 2 días el acoso de los spamers. (¿Tendrá algo que ver con que ayer fue el Día del Orgullo Friki?) Así que he puesto una de estas imagenes distorsionadas para evitarlo. Para los que quieran detalles: es unplugin para Wordpress que utiliza tecnología Captcha. Ahora supongo que me tocará sufrir a los nuevos spamers, así que os dejo alguna idea… Jon hung my mobile just above my bed, in front of the window light. He used fishing line and hardware store

    2006-05-25 at 11.34 pm
  5. nachtbus.net says:

    ähm. wie jetzt?! diese ansicht stösst bei dir dir nicht auf zustimmung. du hast – aus unerfindlichen gründen – so überhaupt gar keine lust dir deine datenbank mit reklame vollmüllen zu lassen? dann gibt es auch für dich eine einfache lösung.boriel hat ein captcha-plugin für wordpress programmiert, das die hürde für spammer ziemlich hoch setzt. bei mir ist jetzt jedenfalls ruhe [IMG :) ] vielen dank dafür! Tags: irgendwas ist doch immer, captcha

    2006-05-24 at 12.05 pm
  6. just ju. says:

    werden verwendet, um zu entscheiden, ob das Gegenüber ein Mensch oder eine Maschine ist.�? (stolen from wikipedia.org [IMG ;) ] ) Für Wordpress gibt es da ein nettes Plugin was sich verhältnismäßig einfach installieren läßt. Es heißt – tadaaa:Captcha!. Für Euch bedeutet das, dass ihr ab sofort zum Kommentieren 4 Zeichen abtippen müßt, um zu zeigen, daß ihr keine bösen Spambots seid, die mir Potenzpillen andrehen wollen. Aber das bekommt ihr schon hin. xD

    2006-05-24 at 9.21 am
  7. Neil Duffin Blog says:

    t read them. Finally, it explains why on earth you need to go through this rigmarole. Anyway, to the point of this entry. How I went about changing the text that CaptCha! uses. I’m using version 2.1 here and you can downloadCaptCha!

    2006-05-24 at 7.45 am
  8. Dee’s-Planet! says:

    As for every open blog (open as in everyone can post comment without register first), anti-spam is of high priority. Googling around for a WP plugin which implments Captcha, I found a list. With further investigation, I decided to try outCaptcha! (BTW: there is an open contest sponsored by eZ among others, in which one of the three available categories of application is captcha. However, as it turned out that it has too little information in the English post, I do not know much about this

    2006-05-20 at 9.34 pm
  9. kobak pont org says:

    »worpress Capcha! Plugin

    2006-05-20 at 6.29 pm
  10. wildbits says:

    Nach dem ich jetzt dasCaptcha-Plugin installiert habe, ist endlich Ruhe eingekehrt. Kein weiterer SPAM-Kommentar mehr. Das besondere an dem Plugin ist, daß es ohne Änderungen an WordPress oder dem Templates der Themes läuft. Einfach runterladen, einen freien True Type Font besorgen und

    2006-05-20 at 3.36 pm
  11. VoucherTrader.co.uk - Building the Site says:

    ’t been posting on here much lately (or not at all, if I’m honest), I’ve still been getting a flood of spam comments that have been taking ages to sieve through. That was until I discovered theCaptcha! plugin for WordPress

    2006-05-19 at 6.26 pm
  12. WordPress Planet says:

    Captcha! 2.0 Category: Spam Fighting Author: Jose Rodriguez Description: This plugin shows a distorted text image the user has to identify to allow his/her comment to be accepted. [Download] [Plugin Page] New in this version: + Danish translation of captcha! (Thanks, Ulrik Nielsen) + Portuguese (Brazil) translation of captcha! (Thanks, Francis Augusto Medeiros) + One single file! Captcha is now one single compact file. Source code is much cleaner

    2006-05-14 at 5.13 pm
  13. Jason’s Weblog says:

    have to edit the code by hand when you want to add new things to the sidebar. Definately the way things will be going in WordPress. A few of the things I have running here: Adhesive – Mark posts as sticky (Scroll down 2/3’s of the way to get it)CaptCha – Image verification for posting a comment Mime – Allow for no formatting of posts Feedburner Feed Replacement Postie – So I can post via email WP-UserOnline – 28 people were here at once?! (He’s using the same theme as me

    2006-05-14 at 2.49 am
  14. Across Weirdish Wild Space says:

    whenever you do an upgrade. Being the lazy sod I am, this bugs me, so I thought I’d check out the competitors and see whether there wasn’t something slightly better that would Erroneously thinking the problem was there, I checked out hashcash,CaptCha! and SecureImage. Hashcash, claims 100% effectiveness so seemed like a good start, but I was completely unable to get it working despite following instructions to the letter. It was unclear to me whether I needed to also add in the md5.js which was

    2005-10-02 at 7.46 pm
  15. [United States] Olajide Olaolorun says:

    please help. i get this error and i have no idea why and no time to debug myself.

    ex: http://blog.uniformserver.com/?p=63#comments

    thanks

    2005-09-29 at 6.03 pm
  16. [Spain] Boriel says:

    I don’t see any error. The message “Oh, no, I cannot read this captcha…” is not an error. It’s an option given to the user to request another code, if the current one is too difficult to read. Your instalation is working ok.

    2005-09-29 at 10.55 pm
  17. [Netherlands] Patrick Starrenburg says:

    Hi – doesn’t work on my Wordpress (latest version 1.5.2) Gentoo Linux (**no X installed**)
    I have the GD library class compliled into PHP, CaptCha finds TTF file, but on blog it says “No Truetypefont available for the CaptchaClass” :(

    2005-10-01 at 4.43 pm
  18. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Make sure the TTF files in the TTF Folder are readable by Apache/PHP (or public readable).
    Try to

    chmod 644 *.TTF

    2005-10-01 at 5.59 pm
  19. [Germany] Stefan says:

    Muchas gracias por este plugin. Aunque todavia no tenía spam en mi nueva pagina, en mi vieja si que había mucho en el “guestbook” (lo que era un script muy sencillo que yo había programado como una primera prueba de PHP, sin protecciónes y tal). ¿Sabes si hay una protección como la tuya para un formulario de email también?
    Saludos. Stefan

    2005-10-03 at 6.34 pm
  20. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Stefan, gracias a tí por usarlo.
    No conozco ningún plugin que haga eso. Si te refieres al contact form, igual se podría hacer algo para integrar ambos plugin’s de manera que el contact form tuviera un Captcha también.

    2005-10-03 at 6.38 pm
  21. [Germany] Stefan says:

    Hace poco he utilizado un sencillo script de PHP pero debido a mucho spam lo acabo de borrar. Acabo de installar este plugin – me parece que es el mismo como el tuyo. Si encuentras una manera de integrar Capcha con ese formulario, me alegraría si me avisaras. :)
    (¿Que tal el eclipse solar? ;-) Aquí en Hamburgo ne se vio mucho; estamos demasiado en el norte :( )

    2005-10-03 at 7.18 pm
  22. [United States] Olajide Olaolorun says:

    [REPOST] [REPOST] [REPOST] [REPOST]

    Sorry, the code is stripped or lost. You can delete those top 2.

    There is a problem in 1.4

    I debug and found it easily..

    Here, replace Line 244, the PHP part with:

    /* echo captcha::version; */

    It prosesses the PHP in the HMTL comment. :d Also remove the / before .

    Oh also, the flipping is too strong… sometimes it turns it that u can’t know which came first.. you understand?

    2005-10-04 at 2.58 am
  23. [Germany] Jasmin Buchert says:

    Captcha totally breaks the site layout with Opera (tested with 8.50).
    It seems Opera doesn’t like the nested ’s:

    …
    …

    2005-10-04 at 3.02 am
  24. [Germany] Jasmin Buchert says:

    ^ that should read: nested form’s

    PS: Your captcha test is too hard for humans..

    2005-10-04 at 3.05 am
  25. [United States] Olajide Olaolorun says:

    Yeah.. what i was saying… too strong… mixes it up sometimes..

    2005-10-04 at 3.24 am
  26. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Jasmin, Ok. Opera doesn’t allow nested forms. And I don’t use it, so was not tested (in fact, the XHTML validator accepts it! 8O).
    Will try to fix it in the next release. Thanks. :)

    And the captcha difficulty is given by the TTF fonts you choose (check the other sites examples to see it clearer). I think I should use clearer TTF fonts too…

    2005-10-04 at 9.00 am
  27. [Australia] Nick says:

    Hey great plugin…I am getting the “Error! No TTF font found!No Truetypefont available for the CaptchaClass.” as well.

    Being fairly new to this could you provide a config.php that has been configured??

    I think I am missing some of the extra settings…the path to the fonts seems to be correct (available by browser) etc.

    Thankyou in advance.

    2005-10-05 at 11.45 am
  28. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    Hy!
    Thanks for the great plug-in!
    :?: There is one little problem with “the “Invalid Code”, Retry sequence”:
    If I enter a wrong code, the Javascript-alert pops up (that’s all ok until here). If I click “ok” on the javascript-alert, i get a 404-error message.
    Any ideas ? ( I use your plug-in on pages too … maybe this is the problem ???)
    anyways: muchas gracias for your idea !!!

    2005-10-06 at 3.44 pm
  29. [United States] scud says:

    Like some others I’ve tried getting this to work, CHMOD’d the proper folders and fonts, and still get a Cannot find TrueTypeFont for CaptchaClass. Both the font and font folders need to be CHMOD’d to 644 correct?

    2005-10-06 at 8.58 pm
  30. [Spain] Boriel says:

    scud: Not exactly.
    You have to chmod 755 for TTF folder, and then CHMOD 644 for *.TFF files.
    You also have to chmod 777 TMP folder, and then it’s a good idea to also chmod +t TMP folder.
    Try this and tell me.

    2005-10-06 at 11.32 pm
  31. [Spain] Markus says:

    Spanish: Gracias por este plug-in y sobretodo, por el gran soporte que estas dando. Saludos desde Girona! ;)

    English: Thanks for the plug-in and specially, the great support you’re giving. Looking forward to the next version. Keep up! :)

    2005-10-08 at 4.17 pm
  32. [United States] MHobbit says:

    Very nice plugin, it works great. :-)

    2005-10-08 at 9.42 pm
  33. [New Zealand] francis says:

    everything SEEMS to be in order but i can’t get any text display in the box. Any ideas?

    2005-10-09 at 4.18 am
  34. [New Zealand] francis says:

    whoops, left the website out http://www.till.co.nz/tillnet

    2005-10-09 at 4.19 am
  35. [Spain] Markus says:

    Installed 1.6 and worked like a charm. Though, I’ve observed it still breaks the XHTML validator, so I made a couple of changes to hn_captcha.class.php

    Fix ampersands in form actions:

    Find this line:
    $this->QUERY_STRING = strlen(trim($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) > 0 ? '?'.strip_tags($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) : '';

    Replace with:
    $this->QUERY_STRING = strlen(trim($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) > 0 ? '?'.str_replace('&','&',strip_tags($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) : '';

    Fix dummy form:

    Find this line:
    $s .= ' ';

    Replace with:
    $s .= 'QUERY_STRING.'" method="post"> ';
    $s .= '';

    Hope that helps someone. ;)

    2005-10-11 at 5.47 pm
  36. [Spain] Markus says:

    Oops… it looks like something was missed in the post. I have posted the code here:
    http://blog.phpmix.com/2005/10/05/captcha-enabled/#comment-28

    2005-10-11 at 6.21 pm
  37. [United States] bdk says:

    I installed Captcha 1.6 fine, ok to activate it. Ok to edit settings in the OPTIONS tab of WP. I created the TTF & TMP folders w/o a problem:

    osok:/[path]/public_html# ls -al tmp
    total 12
    drwxrwxrwt 2 admin admin 4096 2005-10-10 18:55 .
    drwxr-x— 11 admin apache 4096 2005-10-10 18:13 ..
    -rw-r–r– 1 apache apache 1 2005-10-11 10:25 hn_captcha_counter.txt
    osok:/[path]/public_html# ls -al TTF
    total 280
    drwxr-xr-x 2 admin admin 4096 2005-10-10 18:13 .
    drwxr-x— 11 admin apache 4096 2005-10-10 18:13 ..
    -rw-r–r– 1 admin admin 102128 2005-10-10 18:12 aerosol.ttf
    -rw-r–r– 1 admin admin 24741 2005-10-10 18:12 aggstockGravid.ttf
    -rw-r–r– 1 admin admin 26471 2005-10-10 18:12 aggstock.ttf
    -rw-r–r– 1 admin admin 107716 2005-10-10 18:12 slammertag.ttf

    When I turn off Captcha, WP displays fine, including the footer of the page. When I turn Captcha on, the page abruptly ends and does not display the footer area of WP which should include the Captcha fields.

    I turned on debugging and got:

    -Captcha-Debug: Check given TrueType-Array! (4)
    -Captcha-Debug: Valid TrueType-files: (4)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set current TrueType-File: (/home/admin/domains/whoisbdk.com/public_html/TTF/aggstockGravid.ttf)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set number of noise characters to: (45)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set image dimension to: (198 x 72)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set messages to language: (en)
    -Captcha-Debug: Keep this params from original GET-request: (?p=49)
    -Captcha-Debug: Check POST-vars, current try is: (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, public key is: (f66ce)
    -Captcha-Debug: The counterfilename is (/home/admin/domains/whoisbdk.com/public_html/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt)
    -Captcha-Debug: Current counter-value is (5). Garbage-collector should start at (20)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate a string which contains current try: (32233123112313313231331112312233)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate private key: (d5f7d)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate ImageStream with: (imagecreatetruecolor())
    -Captcha-Debug: For colordefinitions we use: (imagecolorallocate())
    -Captcha-Debug: We allocate one color for Background: (234-227-235)
    -Captcha-Debug: Fill background with noise: (45)

    And the page ends.

    GD (v2.0.28) Enabled in PHP (v4.3.11)

    Any ideas?

    2005-10-11 at 8.44 pm
  38. [Spain] Boriel says:

    bdk (23):
    Wow! 8O This is a great debbug info! :)
    After reading that, I see everything it’s in place. Does your GDLib have FreeType support?

    Have you tried to left blank (empty) the TTF font list in the Option panel and then update options? After that, the TTF list should appear automathically.
    Try this and tell me.

    2005-10-11 at 9.25 pm
  39. [United States] bdk says:

    Yes, I had removed the entries from the font field in WP and your Captcha readded all of the fonts w/o a problem.

    How do I tell if GDLib has FreeType support?

    A phpinfo() shows:

    GD Support enabled
    GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
    GIF Read Support enabled
    GIF Create Support enabled
    JPG Support enabled
    PNG Support enabled
    WBMP Support enabled
    XBM Support enabled

    Thanks again.

    2005-10-12 at 5.45 pm
  40. [Spain] Boriel says:

    bdk (25): using phpinfo() as you did!
    Your GDlib does NOT have FreeType support enabled. Unfortuntately, this is required to read and use the .TTF fonts. See if you can enable it.

    2005-10-12 at 6.46 pm
  41. [United States] bdk says:

    Awesome!

    Got FT2 compiled and working with GD & PHP and works great.

    2 suggestions, allow all of the $CAPTCHA_INIT array to be configured via WP. Second if someone were to get the Captcha code wrong, bring them back to the ‘Leave a Reply’ section with their reply already typed in, it was erased.

    I just got your Captcha wrong and had to retype everything. This time I’m going to copy this into my clipboard in case I get it wrong again.

    2005-10-13 at 3.43 am
  42. [United States] bdk says:

    And thanks again for all the work you put into the WP-Captcha, I can see it being an included plugin in future releases of WP.

    Great job!.

    2005-10-13 at 3.44 am
  43. [Spain] Boriel says:

    bdk
    (27):
    Most of the features are or will be configurable from the options panel (well, that’s the idea).
    And regarding to your 2nd, the plugin already does that (I’ve tested it in your server, and it worked to me): You don’t loose your comment content in case you enter a wrong captcha code (or at less, you shouldn’t).
    It it start to fail, plase mail me to see if we can debug it.
    (28): You’re welcome. Thx for your suggestions. :)

    2005-10-13 at 9.06 am
  44. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    hi again,
    i sometimes get a “Garbage Error”. maybe you could tell me, when this is supposed to happen ?
    it’s gone, as soon as the “tmp” folder gets emptied …

    2005-10-16 at 12.47 pm
  45. [United States] Rob says:

    My server admin installed FreeType 2 for me, but it’s still not showing up in the phpinfo page under the GD section. Is there something special he has to do so that it’s enabled?

    Thanks!

    2005-10-18 at 1.03 am
  46. [Canada] Alec Saunders says:

    I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but something is definitely wrong! I’ve installed the plugin, and configured it. It is putting out a captha image, but all of the letters are on top of each other. Go visit my blog at http://saunderslog.com and see what I mean. Any ideas??

    A

    2005-10-18 at 6.26 am
  47. [Serbia And Montenegro] paleksic says:

    Here is what i got:

    ——————————————
    Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /var/www/localhost/htdocs/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt because No such file or directory in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /var/www/localhost/htdocs/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt because No such file or directory in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    A GARBAGE ERROR has occured!
    Go to the Contact section and notify to me!
    Unable to safe captcha-image.
    ————————————-

    currently running Linux with GDlib-2.0.32 , php-4.4.0 , apache-2.0.54 , mysql-4.0.25 , freetype-1.3.1 and 2.1.9

    What can be probleme, i have write access to ~tmp and ~TTF folder

    Thanks in advance

    2005-10-18 at 1.58 pm
  48. [United States] Rob says:

    Ok, I have both FT2 enabled now on my server. It shows up in phpinfo() as such:

    FreeType Support enabled
    FreeType Linkage with freetype

    Have the plugin enabled, but nothing shows up on comment sections. Don’t I need to add anything to the comments.php file of my theme?

    2005-10-18 at 3.04 pm
  49. [Spain] Boriel says:

    el tiki (30):

    This error should never happen. Garbage Collection means the max number of cached captcha-images has already been generated, and the hn_captcha class cannot delete them.

    Empty the tmp folder completely, and make sure the Webserver (Apache/Php) can delete files in the tmp directory (it should already, since it can create files).

    Hmmmm. Really, odd. :?

    Try to reproduce the error: The max number of cacheable images is stored in the file captcha.php, into the function hn_new_captcha(). The parameter “collect garbage after” (20 by default) tells how many images can be stored in the tmp folder. When this limit is reached, older images are deleted. This procedure seems to be failing in your website.

    I will investigate the problem this evening, but would be difficult to reproduce it in my server. Meanwhile, you can enable the “debug” parameter in the above function and try to reproduce the error. This might give you more information. Remember to disable “debug” after that.

    2005-10-16 at 10.42 pm
  50. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Rob (35):

    Upload some .TTF (True Type Font) files to the TTF directory (I guess you have already done that).

    Then go to the Options panel, empty the TTF font list, and update options. After that, the TTF files should be detected automatically.

    Try this, and tell me.

    By the way, you have to be logged out of your server, since logged in users are *trusted* and captcha won’t be showed to them.

    2005-10-18 at 3.48 pm
  51. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Alec Saunders (33):

    I suppose it shows only two digits because you configured that way in the Options panel. But, on the other hand, the size of the image has changed. Did you edited the hn_captcha_class.php or any other file by hand?

    Some parameters are a bit critical. That’s why they’re not available yet in the options panel. If you did change the image size, digit rotation or separation, please, leave them as they were originally (or reinstall the plugin files overwriting the current ones).

    Try this and tell me.

    Note: If you want to use less digits and smaller image size you have to be carefull with the digit separation, rotation and even the TTF font size. The author of the hn_captcha_class tuned this parameters a lot before releasing it, I suspect.

    2005-10-18 at 4.00 pm
  52. [Serbia And Montenegro] paleksic says:

    Boriel thanks for quick email bro, i have it working now. You was right i overlooked directory names. Keep us informed i’m subscribing here ;)

    cheers!

    2005-10-18 at 7.53 pm
  53. [United States] David says:

    Boriel, I have the same problem as #33, Alec Saunders. The Captcha! image shows up below my comment form, but all letters are displayed on top of each other in the left-hand side of the image. I have set my only font to arial.ttf, and have experimented with the number of characters displayed. The problem remains whatever number I use (using 5 now). I see Alec has solved it by setting the number of characters to 1 on his blog :-) Any hints to solving this issue?

    By the way, I initially got the “No Truetypefont available for the CaptchaClass.”-error too. I solved this by making the “TTF Files:”-field in the Captcha-options of the WordPress admin pages empty. When you update the options, you will see that Captcha! automatically fills in this field with the fonts in your fonts directory. It is described somewhere in the readme or web pages but I overlooked it initially, perhaps this comment can help some people.

    2005-10-20 at 7.12 am
  54. [United States] Eric says:

    I installed Captcha and configured the options (tmp path, truetype font, etc.), but it doesn’t show up for me. I made sure to activate it. Any ideas why it isn’t showing up at all? GD is installed with freetype support. Thanks for any help!

    2005-10-20 at 8.16 am
  55. [United States] Outlandish Josh says:

    Installed and seems like it wants to work, but when I enable the plugin the html output of a comments page is incomplete. The last thing wordpress sends to the browser is the submit button. PHP doesn’t throw any errors to the browser or to the apache error log, so I’m in the dark here…

    2005-10-21 at 5.07 pm
  56. [United States] Outlandish Josh says:

    FYI — the problem I experienced was fixed by rebuilding PHP with freetype enabled.

    2005-10-21 at 5.53 pm
  57. [Russian Federation] Kostya says:

    Uploaded fonts (plug-in detected them). Set permissions for folders manually. And all what I have now is CaptCha! section in comments with a strange “absolute” look like image code: “http://www.myhomepage.com/home/u12345/myhomepage.com/tmp/hn_captcha_b7a8d.jpg”. Absolute path to my temp directory is “/home/u12345/myhomepage.com/tmp/”. And the right image code, i think must look like “http://www.myhomepage.com/tmp/hn_captcha_b7a8d.jpg”. Isn’t it? Ooh… And images is not generating at all (check it via FTP).

    Here is gd lib section in my phpinfo:

    GD Support enabled
    GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
    FreeType Support enabled
    FreeType Linkage with freetype
    GIF Read Support enabled
    GIF Create Support enabled
    JPG Support enabled
    PNG Support enabled
    WBMP Support enabled
    XBM Support enabled

    Sorry for my bad English =)

    2005-10-21 at 8.10 pm
  58. [Germany] Mirco "MacSlow" Müller says:

    Just installed Capcha! 1.6 on my WordPress 1.5-driven site. What a great comment-spam blocking plugin it is! Thanks a bundle for your efforts!

    Best regards…

    MacSlow

    2005-10-22 at 1.26 am
  59. [United States] matt says:

    Do I need to add anything to my comment template to display the captcha interface? I followed the README directions and all the options seemed to be set fine (plugin discovered the fonts in my dir, paths are CHMOD’d properly, etc, etc) but there is no Captcha on the comment form.

    2005-10-22 at 4.49 am
  60. [Spain] Boriel says:

    matt (45): You discovered the solution, but I post it here for anyone else who might find it useful. The problem was your theme has a bug in it. The tag

    <?php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>

    must exist and be placed just before </form> html tag in your comment template file.

    2005-10-22 at 8.45 pm
  61. [Belgium] David says:

    Boriel,

    You wrote me that you have discovered a problem with the random horizontal position, that might be related with my problem. You suggested that I download version 1.7 to see if that fixes the problem. I have done a few tests with 1.7, but the problem persists. Perhaps Alec Saunders has found something new?

    David http://www.steeman.be

    2005-10-23 at 3.43 pm
  62. [United States] Marty Bladen says:

    Hi, why when you click the “new id”
    button does it take me back to the home page instead of leaving me on
    the comments page and just regenerate a new ID?

    2005-10-27 at 1.10 pm
  63. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Marty (48):

    This is, unfortunately, a bug for version 1.7. :cry:
    I will fix that (v 1.8) this evening (GMT).

    Meanwhile use the previos version 1.6 instead. This should work Ok.

    2005-10-27 at 1.30 pm
  64. [Canada] me blog » Blog Archive » Upgradin’ the antispam says:

    [...] Spam Karma 2 was getting annoying with the whole moderating comments thing (I’m a hands-on type of person), so I’ve replaced it with a simple Captcha plugin. Hopefully it’ll save me some time. [...]

    2005-10-27 at 11.29 pm
  65. [Germany] Krischan says:

    Your plugin works for me. Well done,

    Thanks!

    2005-10-28 at 11.22 pm
  66. [Canada] Daniel Lemire says:

    This is nice but the TMP directory assumes that your web site is in /something/www/…
    and that everything after www/… is the URL. Well, my web site at ~/html/ so I had
    to hack your plugin to make it work.

    2005-10-29 at 1.00 am
  67. [United States] Daniel Lemire’s blog » Comments are back! But you need to pass a reverse Turing test! says:

    [...] I’ve installed Boriel’s Capcha! Plugin in my copy of wordpress. “Captcha” is the acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” (see wikipedia entry). It worked well so far, but I had two issues during the installation: [...]

    2005-10-29 at 1.51 am
  68. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Daniel Lemire (52): Thanks for your comments. I will take them into account and see what can I do. ;)

    2005-10-29 at 12.39 pm
  69. [Spain] enrique says:

    Hola. No tengo ni idea de qué es una biblioteca de clases GD de PHP pero trataré de instalar tu plugin porque estoy recibiendo millones de spams. Gracias por el trabajo

    2005-10-30 at 1.47 am
  70. [Spain] enrique says:

    Nada. NO me funciona. ¿Tal vez porque uso WP 1.2?Creo que no quedan claras las instrucciones de instalación ¿a qué carpeta va cada archivo? ¿dónde están las Captcha! Options (no en mi Options page).

    2005-10-30 at 2.03 am
  71. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Enrique:

    (55):
    Es difícil si no tienes experiencia con el PHP. La biblioteca GD permite a PHP hacer gráficos en tiempo real.

    (56):
    Puede que no sea compatible con WP 1.2. Te recomiendo que te actualices a WP 1.5.2 ha mejorado muchísimo y corrige fallos de seguridad. La instalación es como sigue:
    a) Copias el fichero captcha.php a la carpeta de plugins.
    b) Copias la carpeta captcha y todo su contenido a la carpeta de plugins.
    c) En el panel de administracion, debería aparecerte el plugin desactivado. Lo activas.
    d) Una vez hecho esto, en las opciones, debes configurarlo.

    Mira si puedes llegar hasta aquí.

    2005-10-30 at 12.04 pm
  72. [Spain] enrique says:

    Boriel: muchas gracias por la respuesta. Hasta donde dices llego sin problemas, es sencillo. Después de activar el plugin me voy a opciones y no aparece nada de Capcha, sólo las de siempre. Imagino que el problema viene por la compatibilidad con el WP 1.2
    Sobre la biblioteca GD : ¿la tengo por defecto o tengo que instalar algo?

    2005-10-30 at 12.57 pm
  73. [Germany] AoP says:

    Boriel, just another thankful comment from Germany for your plugin. It took me a while to get it working, though I don’t yet know what went wrong (is it possible that underscores in the ttf-filenames are not allowed/possible?) but now that it’s done it’s really good looking and hopefully as effective :D
    Keep up the good work, this plugin was one of the major things missing in Wordpress.

    2005-10-31 at 12.51 pm
  74. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Aop (59):

    Underscores are allowed in TTF filenames (or at less, they should).

    Anyway thanks for you comment. If you want to be linked from this page as an example page, don’t forget to put your URL.

    2005-10-31 at 2.21 pm
  75. [Netherlands] Marjan says:

    Great plugin. Works like a charme.

    I’ve got the latest version and would like a Dutch version / language file. If possible: Where do I change / edit the englisch- or spanisch or german text?

    Greetings.

    2005-11-01 at 12.45 am
  76. [Netherlands] Marjan says:

    Never mind. :oops: Found it in ‘hn_captcha.class.php’. Thanks anyway

    2005-11-01 at 1.34 am
  77. [Germany] Andreas Wacker says:

    Sorry,
    unable to get it to work. Maybe you want to give people an example directory configuration, including the html root.

    Sad if the anti spam captcha (that works great if installed by somebody less stupid than me, I am sure) takes more time than the dreadful spam.

    Yes, I did read all this pages, enabled debug, messed with the php code, but still can not make it work right. Again: That is me and my install. A real example of a working config would have helped tremendously. It’s those missing 3% that render this great plugin useless for me.

    2005-11-01 at 12.53 pm
  78. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Andreas (63):

    1) Describe your problem: What is your problem exactly? What did the debug info said?
    The html root is obtained automatically.
    2) Leave blank (empty) the directories in the captcha options. And press UPDATE. They are configured automatically to suitable values. You can use those folders, and give the right permissions (Read + Write for TMP and Read for TTF).
    3) Upload some TTF files to your ttf folder (they must be readable).
    4) In the options panel, leave blank (empty) the TTF files list, and UPDATE. It should be configured automatically. If it is, then the TTF directory is Ok.
    5) LOG OUT of your admin panel, and try to post a comment (Logged In users are trusted, and captcha won’t appear for them).
    6) Use WP 1.5.2 (Ok, this should not be a problem, anyway, but 1.5.1 has a bug and can be hacked by malicious users. Look out! You can loose your database during upgrade! :( )

    2005-11-01 at 1.06 pm
  79. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    Hi,

    I’m trying to implement captcha-1.8 on a Solaris 9 webserver which has multiple web sites on it (i.e. virtual servers). I have Apache 2.0.50 with PHP 4.4.0 configured as follows:
    ‘./configure’ ‘–prefix=/opt/depot/php-4.4.0′ ‘–with-apxs2=/opt/bin/apxs’ ‘–with-jpeg=dir=/opt’ ‘–with-zlib=/opt/depot/zlib-1.2.3′ ‘–with-gd=/opt/depot/gd-2.0.28′ ‘–with-jpeg-dir=/opt/depot/jpeg-6b’ ‘–with-png-dir=/opt/depot/libpng-1.2.7′ ‘–with-xpm-dir=/opt/depot/xpm-3.4k’ ‘–with-freetype-dir=/opt/depot/freetype-2.1.10′ ‘–with-ttf=/opt/depot/freetype-2.1.10′ ‘–enable-gd-native-ttf’ ‘–with-mysql=/opt/depot/mysql-4.1.4a-gamma’ ‘–with-zlib-dir=/opt/depot/zlib-1.2.3′

    I don’t get any captcha images in the comment pages which results in no comments being added. I’ve turned on DEBUG in captcha and this is what it says:

    -Captcha-Debug: Check given TrueType-Array! (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Valid TrueType-files: (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set current TrueType-File: (/opt/www/dubrawsky_org/TTF/1942.ttf)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set number of noise characters to: (54)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set image dimension to: (231 x 72)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set messages to language: (en)
    -Captcha-Debug: Keep this params from original GET-request: (?p=29)
    -Captcha-Debug: Check POST-vars, current try is: (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, public key is: (1f40d1)
    -Captcha-Debug: The counterfilename is (/opt/www/dubrawsky_org/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt)
    -Captcha-Debug: Current counter-value is (19). Garbage-collector should start at (20)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate a string which contains current try: (31213312333131323332111132213233)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate private key: (2363ad)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate ImageStream with: (imagecreatetruecolor())
    -Captcha-Debug: For colordefinitions we use: (imagecolorallocate())
    -Captcha-Debug: We allocate one color for Background: (252-249-238)
    -Captcha-Debug: Fill background with noise: (54)
    -Captcha-Debug: Fill forground with chars and shadows: (6)

    And that’s it. I’m at a loss as to why captcha is not working. Any suggestions?

    2005-11-01 at 9.14 pm
  80. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    A quick follow up: I’m using WordPress 1.5.2 with the default theme.

    Ido

    2005-11-01 at 9.16 pm
  81. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    I’ve isolated the problem to the hn_captcha.class.php script at the @ImageJPEG($image,$this->get_filename(), $this->jpegquality); call. It appears to exit right after this call and never completes the script. Any ideas?

    2005-11-01 at 11.14 pm
  82. [United States] Thomas Leavitt says:

    Had been using SecureImage, but wound up encountering the problem of ImageMagick not having freetype support compiled in… so I installed this instead. Works fine. Would be nice if the /tmp directory could be a system directory, and not a published directory under the WWW root.

    There is a buglet, however: in WP 1.5.2, I noticed that having the system attempt to automatically extract the list of fonts produced an error: didn’t save it, but something to do with the “implode” function. I bypassed it by simply extracting the list of fonts myself, and inputing them in directly.

    2005-11-01 at 11.22 pm
  83. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Thomas (68):

    1) Regarding /tmp directory, it must be a published directory. The images must be accesible via WWW, so they can be displayed as inline <img… / > images: This implies the tmp directory must be published. You can use another directory (NEVER publish system /tmp since it has some PHP session and other sensitive info there and could be a security breach). You can publish another directory in httpd conf or simpler, using symbolic link (ln -s) outside your document root.

    I have a way to solve this, however. It will be done in a future release.

    2) I use WP 1.5.2, as many others, and worked fine for us. If you can reproduce the bug, please tell me. If you enter the comma separated file list, then it won’t be automatically detected, as you did, and it will be saved as is.

    2005-11-01 at 11.55 pm
  84. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Ido (67):
    Your tmp directory is OK (permissions and so on).
    Something is prevented to write the .jpg files there. But don’t know the reason. :?

    1) Check if the permission are OK, but I guess they are since hn_captcha_counter.txt exist.
    2) Check if your GD have JPEG enabled:
       <?php if (imagetypes() & IMG_JPG) echo "JPEG Support is enabled"; ?>
    3) Also put this: error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); before the @ImageJPEG function call to see if any error msg is output.

    2005-11-02 at 12.09 am
  85. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    I found the problem. My gd library didn’t get compiled with jpeg support (I thought it was but it didn’t). I had to actually recompile the jpeg library first, then the gd library, then PHP and the everything works great. This is awesome. I look forward to less blog spam with captcha. Thanks!

    2005-11-02 at 3.09 pm
  86. [United States] Ido’s Blog » Blog Archive » Comments are back…with a twist says:

    [...] I got tired of the blog spam from the on-line gambling sites and the Cingular ringtones folks and have installed the Boriel’s wonderful capcha plugin for Wordpress (yes, that’s how he spells it…in actuality it’s written as CAPTCHA). What is CAPTCHA? Captcha is the acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Ccomputers and Humans Apart.” You can find more information about it here. Now, if you want to submit a comment on my blog entries you will have to pass a reverse turing test. It’s simple…just put in the numbers shown in the graphic below your comment and press submit. If the numbers entered match the numbers in the graphic then the comment is accepted. The graphic is not machine readable so blog spam bots cannot parse it to get the numbers. Now, I had one problem with getting the capcha plugin to work — the graphic wouldn’t show up. It turned out that I needed to recompile my libjpeg library as well as the gd library and PHP in order to fix the problem. Now it works great. [...]

    2005-11-02 at 3.21 pm
  87. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    I’ve seen some comment spam come through today even with the capcha plugin active and working. All of my testing has shown that comments must have the captcha code added. Could this be actual live people spending time inputting this spam? Is there anyway to tell? I guess I could look at the Apache logs but I was wondering if there’s a way to log things through the plugin or through WordPress.

    Just wondering.

    2005-11-03 at 6.46 pm
  88. [United States] Ido Dubrawsky says:

    Turns out it’s trackback comment spam. It has nothing to do with capcha.

    2005-11-03 at 9.32 pm
  89. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Ido (73), (74):
    I solved it using TrackBack validator plugin (see http://idli.cs.rice.edu/~dsandler/trackback/trackback-validator-plugin/).

    This will hide trackbacks not really linking to your site, but won’t delete it from your database. :|

    2005-11-03 at 11.29 pm
  90. [Singapore] Gary says:

    Hi.. I am relatively new to wordpress and am having trouble installing this plugin.
    I have chmod’ed my two directories as advised, and the options panel is even able to update the .ttf list automatically, meaning it can access my font files, right? Yet when I log out and try to post a comment on my site, I get the message that no Trutypefont is available for the captcha class. I really don’t know what is wrong! please help me if you can. thanks.

    2005-11-04 at 1.44 pm
  91. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Gary (76):

    These have been stated in the comments area. There main causes for this usually are:

    1) Bad chmod permissions (You see the .TTF list, so I guess they are Ok)
    2) Your PHP version does not have GD enabled
    3) Your GD-lib version does not support TTF.

    I’m preparing version 1.9 that will check for this automatically.
    Meanwhile, create a simple web page, named, for example test.php, with a sigle line:

    And view it with your browser. Search for “GD”, and tell me what it says about it.

    2005-11-04 at 10.32 pm
  92. [Netherlands] Onderonsjes » Onderons wijzigingen says:

    [...] Eveneens door Ulco… (waarvoor nog meer dank en eeuwige roem): Capcha! Plugin geïnstalleerd. Hiermede hoop ik dat spamberichten tot het verleden behoren. Er dient een gegenereerde code ingevoerd te worden, alvorens niet-leden kunnen reageren. [...]

    2005-11-05 at 10.15 pm
  93. [United States] Tarotoast’s Stuff » Blog Archive » Capcha! Plugin says:

    [...] 那 [Capcha! Plugin] 忈是啥? 簡單說是個美觀大方安裿簡易的 auth_image 程弿。安裿鿎程算是鿞常簡單: [...]

    2005-11-06 at 2.55 pm
  94. [Taiwan] 餅乾的網誌 » Blog Archive » 裿了Captcha says:

    [...] 丿鿎因為在濬家剿本來的 WP 1.5 是確實有裿 AuthImage 的，丿鿎濬家後一直懶得裿，忿正沒有人會來 spam。既然色尿外便便土忸都這麼有誠愿的幫我把 plugin 找好了，就順手裿上去忧＿按照他文章說的，我跑去裿了Capcha! Plugin，沒想到翾在連手動修改都丿用，抓下來解開，按一下 activate ，抓個字型丟到目錄裡就濞定收工。目剿用了harry_p〿scriptina兩組字型，本來還用chopin_script，丿鿎看看覺得太難就拿掉了。 [...]

    2005-11-06 at 6.00 pm
  95. [United States] sleeplessboy says:

    How come it only work on certain theme and don’t work on other theme? Do you have any tips for me to fix this problem??

    sleeplessboy

    2005-11-07 at 1.43 am
  96. [United States] Funny as a Dead Baby — Blog Archive » Avast! says:

    [...] I also added Captcha-style verification to my blog comments. I’m truly sorry to those who otherwise would’ve been able to comment (though there are only a few dozen actual humans who have ever commented on the site), but I’m also including a link to my e-mail comment form on my main site, which will allow access to users who need the aforementioned tools but still wish to comment (as well as any broader group who would prefer to comment privately). [...]

    2005-11-07 at 5.51 am
  97. [Finland] Hannu says:

    FYI, Captcha! version 1.9 doesn’t seem to be working with current SVN version of Wordpress (1.6-ALPHA-2-still-dont-use). It may be too early to be testing it, but you might want to check it out. The most obvious problem is the TrueType folder path, which is not being saved.

    2005-11-10 at 7.33 pm
  98. [Spain] Carlos says:

    Lo he instalado todo correctamente y me genera las imágenes, pero lo curioso es que a la hora de cargarlas en la página muestra un cuadro negro transparente con el texto “This is a captcha-picture…”.

    Lo curioso, es que si le digo abrir imagen en ventana nueva copiando la ruta que ha generado, veo la imagen!
    Y no es sólo en mi ordenador, lo he probado desde varios: windows y linux.

    Alguna idea?

    2005-11-10 at 10.17 pm
  99. [Germany] schimana.net » Blog Archive » Captcha Plugin für Wordpress says:

    [...] Veränderungen durchführen muss, was bei Updates meistens hinderlich ist. Nun habe ich doch einen Captcha Plugin für Wordpress installiert. Dieser wird ohne Änderungen an Wordpress installiert. Es gibt eine Seite mitOptionen. Dort kann man TMP-Pfade und kann sogar einen eigenen TrueType-Font verwenden. Mal sehen, ob die Spams weiterhin durchkommen… [...]

    2005-11-13 at 11.17 am
  100. [United States] Hillsidelounge » Captcha installed says:

    [...] Got the Captcha running and a cool truetype font called Angelina installed. We’ll see if I can stop the spam bombing before it starts. Using this one from boriel. and Angelina from dafont.com. Simple to install and get working. Just the way I like it. [...]

    2005-11-13 at 11.56 am
  101. [France] MLL says:

    Hello there, very cool plugin, thank you ! (nice fonts site too, didn’t know it :) )

    Here’s a french translation that you might want to include:

    ‘fr’=>array(
    ‘msg1′=>’Vous devez lire et taper les ‘.$this->chars.’ charactères entre 0..9 et A..F, et envoyer le commentaire.’,
    ‘msg2′=>’Hélas, je ne peux pas lire ceci. SVP, générez un ‘,
    ‘buttontext’=>’Envoyer le commentaire’,
    ‘refreshbuttontext’=>’nouveau code’
    )

    Cheers.

    2005-11-16 at 8.45 pm
  102. [Turkey] Ercin EKER says:

    Should i insert some code into comments.php file of the current theme? Cause the Capcha is not included into the comment page :(

    2005-11-17 at 5.04 am
  103. [Turkey] Ercin EKER says:

    OK. the problem was my themes comment.php file, changed with an other themes file and now working :)

    2005-11-17 at 5.42 am
  104. [Spain] Boriel says:

    MLL (87): Will be included in future releases. Thanks! ;)

    2005-11-17 at 8.27 am
  105. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Ercin (88), (89):
    Yes. Some themes are buggy, and do not call some wordpress events.
    It’s explained in answer (44):

    To fix your wrong theme, simply add

    <?php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>

    just before the </form> tag in the comments.php file of your theme.
    This will fix it, so you can use your favourite theme with captcha.

    2005-11-17 at 8.28 am
  106. [Norway] Weedie says:

    This is kinda cool, really….

    2005-11-17 at 3.54 pm
  107. [United States] Axel Segebrecht » Blog Archive » Open Comments says:

    [...] Good news everyone… I’ve installed the CaptCha! plug-in for Wordpress by Jose Rodriguez (a.k.a. Boriel) and you no longer need to be registered to post comments! I hope that makes it easier and encourages you to let me know what you are thinking about my ramblings. [...]

    2005-11-21 at 6.10 pm
  108. [Germany] jo says:

    Dun’t know where the problem is, but v1.9 won’t work out of the box with this (pretty nice & ALA-based) Theme: http://www.law-blog.de/get-the-theme/

    Anyway, thx for your work.

    2005-11-21 at 7.11 pm
  109. [United States] EdLucas.com » First Post says:

    [...] CaptCha! – for comment spam blocking [...]

    2005-11-23 at 2.25 am
  110. [United States] Nomadicoder » Got Captcha says:

    [...] I have captcha installed and running. I’m using CaptCha!. Installation was pretty easy. [...]

    2005-11-24 at 5.08 am
  111. [Germany] Deichgraf says:

    Hola Juan,
    pues has hecho un plugin de … madre! Lo unique que me ha jodido era la configuración en wordpress, es decir ajustarlo a que encuentre las imagines producidas. Pero ahora va muy bien! Gracias!
    Saludos desde Frankfurt, Alemania :)

    2005-11-25 at 3.06 pm
  112. [Germany] weblogbuch vom deichgraf » Blog Archive » Kommentar-Spam says:

    [...] .. habe in nun dank Boriels Captcha Plugin abgestellt. Hoffe, daß automatische Spammer mich nun in Ruhe lassen?! Das Plugin integriert sich sehr schön in Wordpress. D.h. man muss keine zusätzliche Codierung vornehmen. Bleibt einzig die Angabe der Pfade unter denen das Plugin die Captcha-Bilder ablegt, was bei mir leider nicht auf Anhieb lief. Da gibt es zwei Angaben zu machen: der interne Verweis auf diesen Pfad und den von extern erreichbaren Verweis. Bei mir hängt das Zeug nun folgendermassen drinnen: TMP Folder: /<em><geheimer Pfad auf Server></geheimer></em>/www.b615.com/wp/wp-content/images/tmp/ TMP Path URL: http://b615.com/wp-content/images/tmp/ Vielleicht nützt Euch diese Info?! [...]

    2005-11-25 at 3.18 pm
  113. [Argentina] Marian says:

    HOLA! Subi el plug in por ftp, cuando estoy intentando entrar al blog para editar las opciones (o para ver el blog) me da error:
    Warning: main(captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/docs/loader.com.ar/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php on line 31

    Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php’ (include_path=”) in /www/docs/loader.com.ar/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php on line 31

    Alguna idea que puede ser?? Muchas gracias!!!

    2005-11-26 at 3.58 pm
  114. [United States] Sharroll says:

    Well, I don’t know what’s giong on. I know I have the GD Library and stuff, because I went round and round with my host to have them install when I was using MT. I get the little box but no letters or numbers. Everything has been CHMODed correctly I think. I am unsure what else could be the problem.

    2005-11-26 at 8.35 pm
  115. [United States] Olajide Olaolorun says:

    Boriel? Guess what, i was looking at me school, well the one i’m going to start in January’s website, http://www.gpc.edu and went to the campus website i would be attending. Just going to the Contact Us page, i saw Captcha being used:

    http://www.gpc.edu/Faculty_and_Students/mail_form.php3?to=ncngevp3

    Just thought i would let you know. I do not know the developer of the site yet as i have not started their but may get to know him/her when i start :D

    2005-11-28 at 3.57 am
  116. [United States] Little Bit Tired, Little Bit Worn » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.0 Beta and Spamkarma says:

    [...] The options are few I suppose. #1 Return to WP 1.5 #2 Disable SK #3 Live with it #4 Find another plugin to control spam I’ve gone with Captcha at least until the SK issue has been dealt with either by the WP people or by SK’s Dr. Dave. I’d rather use SK as it is more user friendly for those leaving comments. [...]

    2005-11-30 at 6.14 am
  117. [United States] Rob says:

    Hmm, got the garbage error today. Strange. Here’s the debug output I get when trying to post:

    A GARBAGE ERROR has occured!
    Go to the Contact section and notify to me!

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 51

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 52

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 53

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 55

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 56

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 57

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-comments-post.php on line 58

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/electro/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:175) in /home/electro/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 129

    lines 51-53 and 55-58 are setcookies and header info. I’ve tried emptying the image cache manually. No luck. Any ideas?

    2005-12-01 at 7.25 am
  118. [United States] detrimental postulation » do i get a cake? says:

    [...] Update — I have changed my verification to Boriel’s excellent CaptCha! It’s prettier, easier to install, and better than the last one I used. See? I do care about my readers after all. [...]

    2005-12-01 at 11.23 pm
  119. [United States] Marty says:

    I too am getting Garbage error.

    2005-12-05 at 3.19 am
  120. [Canada] The Bob Gentry Journal » Captcha Beast says:

    [...] The 1st I downloaded was something called "Spam Karma 2- Reloaded"… That seemed to work pretty good but for some reason it started to over-ride the option of "moderation"…it basically took over like RISE OF THE MACHINES from Terminator 3. I started messing with the settings on it more and STILL couldn’t get it to the way I liked…and then I remembered the Juggler telling me about something he installed called "Captcha" ….which works like blogger.com’s anti-spam comment feature. It seems to NOW be working on my journal but there’s 2 submit buttons (not sure why). Anyway…in order to comment you must type in the 5 digit code after everything’s filled out and then click either submit button.  Tricky….and even trickier for me to install [I ride the Little Yellow Wordpress Bus]. Hopefully this will solve my Spam troubles…more on this to come. [...]

    2005-12-07 at 1.42 am
  121. [United States] What I Learned Today…»Blog Archive » Spam says:

    [...] Tonight I’m going to see about installing Captcha! or some other spam protection so that I don’t have to moderate comments anymore. • • • [...]

    2005-12-12 at 3.45 pm
  122. [Germany] Stefan Haubolds weblog » Testing Comments says:

    [...] I have re-enabled comments and I am using a Captcha Plugin now to prevent Comment Spam.   [...]

    2005-12-14 at 1.07 pm
  123. [Germany] Suchmaschinen & Marketing & Seminar » Blog Archive » SPAM-Schutz says:

    [...] Leider wird es inzwischen unumgänglich, auf RENT A SEO einen SPAM-Filter einzubauen. Ich habe mich dabei für Captcha! von Jose Rodriguez entschieden. Es ist leichter zu installieren als TrencaSpammers, das ich zur Zeit auf Denkfabik teste. [...]

    2005-12-14 at 6.59 pm
  124. [United States] SeanIM says:

    Was trying to install this for a client of mine who’s been getting a lot of spam on their blog lately and get these errors:

    Warning: main(captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/username/domain.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php on line 31

    Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php’ (include_path=”) in /usr/home/username/domain.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php on line 31

    I have the folders and files all 777 even, and no luck, I looked inside the files to see if some references to paths were incorrect and all looked to be ok…

    Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

    - SeanIM

    2005-12-15 at 9.05 pm
  125. [Malaysia] Tony says:

    What code should I put in the comments template in order to show the code. I have installed but it doesn’t appears and the readme file does not show what code to be place in the template.

    Please advice. Thanks

    2005-12-16 at 8.56 am
  126. [Switzerland] Paolo Brocco says:

    Hi Boriel, I installed your plugin to get rid of the spam comments on my blog. Thanks to your plugin the spam is reduced really a lot, but still I get something… I searched some artistic fonts but it’s not enough: I receive every day a spam comment from the “texas holdem poker” guy.

    Do you also receive such comments? If not, can you please share the fonts that you are using for your captcha challenge?

    Thanks for letting me (us) know.

    Sincerely,

    Paolo

    2005-12-16 at 10.58 am
  127. [United States] What I Learned Today…»Blog Archive » Captcha! says:

    [...] I just installed Captcha! and removed comment moderation – I hope this helps with the spam without upsetting my readers. Enjoy! • • • [...]

    2005-12-17 at 5.57 pm
  128. [Malaysia] Tony says:

    May I know what is the last option in Captcha Option means. It stated “Captcha! Secret”. Please advice. Thanks

    2005-12-18 at 3.54 am
  129. [United States] Jared Quinn :: Blog Archive :: WordPress Blogging Essentials says:

    [...] Captcha! – SPAM prevention [...]

    2005-12-18 at 2.05 pm
  130. [United States] Jim says:

    I’ve uploaded the Captcha! to my plugins directory, activated it, adjusted all the settings, and nothing shows up on my site. Something is obviously set up wrong, but I can’t figure out what. Help?

    2005-12-19 at 2.53 pm
  131. [United States] Jim says:

    Nevermind. I figured it out….

    2005-12-19 at 2.55 pm
  132. [United States] Writer’s Blog » Blog Archive » Once More With the Housekeeping says:

    [...] Final note, hopefully, on the comment spam and trackback issue—I found a different bot check software called Captcha! that still provides the security of random image generation to prove human commenting but that also allows continued trackback capability. Non-registered users will have to type in the code at the bottom of the comment field before submitting, where registered users will not need to verify their comments. [...]

    2005-12-19 at 3.01 pm
  133. [Switzerland] Paolo Brocco’s digital empire » Texas Holdem Spam says:

    [...] First of all, if you get trackback comments "texas holdem poker", you are probably getting a lot of comments from other "visitors". Install the Captcha! plugin to get rid of 90% of them. [...]

    2005-12-19 at 11.28 pm
  134. [United States] Karl Olson says:

    Just set my site up with it. Didn’t really get a lot of spam to begin with, but if this cuts out the rest, I’m happy to have it available :D

    2005-12-21 at 11.18 am
  135. [United States] Linux Librarian » New Comments Set Up, and Other Stuff says:

    [...] So I installed CaptCha!, which will become immediately obvious if you try to leave a comment. So far, so good. [...]

    2005-12-22 at 9.18 am
  136. [United States] Outlandish Josh says:

    The robots are winning — after installing this plugin I had a blissfully spam-free month, but now they’ve started up again. I get 30+ comments overnight, all from one source so it seems that someone’s bot has puzzled out a way to beat your system.

    2005-12-23 at 7.23 pm
  137. [Spain] Boriel says:

    (122) Outlandish Josh:
    Ok, let’s study it.

    1) First of all, ensure they’re not trackback comments (referal spam). I use Trackback Validator and works fine to me. Captcha does not filter trackbacks nor pingbacks.

    2) Send me some comments (via email/contact form) that have bypassed the captcha.

    3) Change the fonts of your site from time to time. Enlarge the size of the code (6 or 7 digits), and use a wide variety of fonts.

    2005-12-24 at 11.58 am
  138. [United States] SEG says:

    I am getting this error. Any idea what might cause this:

    Warning: is_file(): Stat failed for /home/public_html/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt (errno=13 – Permission denied) in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /home/public_html/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt because Permission denied in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    Warning: is_file(): Stat failed for /home/public_html/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt (errno=13 – Permission denied) in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /home/public_html/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt because Permission denied in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha/hn_captcha.class.x1.php on line 209

    2005-12-26 at 7.19 am
  139. [Russian Federation] 3mp3 says:

    i have the same problem as SEG

    2005-12-26 at 11.17 am
  140. [Spain] Boriel says:

    SEG (124) & 3mp3 (125):
    It seems your directory permissions are not correctly setup.
    Install latest version, and go to the Options panel. The should be some error message there saying /tmp directory is not writable and Apache/PHP user cannot create files there.

    2005-12-26 at 2.35 pm
  141. [Lithuania] name says:

    thanks, the script is great;)

    2005-12-26 at 9.34 pm
  142. [United States] Aaron says:

    I’m trying to use v1.9, but I’m not getting any text in the images. I’ve tried various fonts (including some from Dafont), but nothing seems to work. There are no errors/warnings in the plugin page, so I seem to have all my paths/perms/GD support working. If it matters, I’m running on OS X.

    Any ideas?
    Thanks.

    2005-12-27 at 7.15 am
  143. [United States] SEG says:

    There we go. I changed the tmp file to CHMOD 777.

    FYI – I had the tmp file set at 755 and the Option panel did not show any errors.

    I have one more problem. Sometimes the image only produces 3 or 4 letters/numbers even though I require 5. I can send you a screen capture if necessary.

    Thanks for the fix!

    2005-12-27 at 7.26 am
  144. [United States] SEG says:

    I downloaded some more TTF files. Before I had 4 files, now I have 5 files. That helped, but I still get instances where there are only 4 letters/numbers appearing. What is the rule for the amount of TTF files used? Should there always be twice as many files as characters?

    2005-12-27 at 7.42 am
  145. [Brazil] zegames says:

    I always get the error:

    Unable to safe captcha-image

    My php.ini have the configuration this display_errors Off | display_startup_errors Off

    I use this teste on my server:

    And show JPEG Support is enabled. I use wordpress latest version 2. What I can make to this GREAT plugin work?

    ps: where I can add the line ini_set(’display_errors’,true); in wordpress files to show errors?

    2005-12-28 at 1.19 pm
  146. [Brazil] zegames says:

    The code above that I use to test my server is:

    ini_set(’display_errors’,true);
    if (imagetypes() & IMG_JPG)
    {
    echo “JPEG Support is enabled”;
    }
    else
    {
    echo “JPEG Support is disabled”;
    }

    Good question: In comment above the wp kill my code because I use the php tag

    2005-12-28 at 1.21 pm
  147. [Brazil] zegames says:

    -Captcha-Debug: Check given TrueType-Array! (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Valid TrueType-files: (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set current TrueType-File: (/var/www/virtual/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/tmp/ttf/28 Days Later.ttf)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set number of noise characters to: (45)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set image dimension to: (198 x 72)
    -Captcha-Debug: Set messages to language: (en)
    -Captcha-Debug: Keep this params from original GET-request: ()
    -Captcha-Debug: Check POST-vars, current try is: (1)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, public key is: (710df)
    -Captcha-Debug: The counterfilename is (/var/www/virtual/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/tmp/hn_captcha_counter.txt)
    -Captcha-Debug: Current counter-value is (19). Garbage-collector should start at (20)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate a string which contains current try: (21331233132213311233222111121321)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate private key: (f59bf)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate ImageStream with: (imagecreatetruecolor())
    -Captcha-Debug: For colordefinitions we use: (imagecolorallocate())
    -Captcha-Debug: We allocate one color for Background: (248-249-246)
    -Captcha-Debug: Fill background with noise: (45)
    -Captcha-Debug: Fill forground with chars and shadows: (5)
    -Captcha-Debug: Safe Image with quality [80] as (/var/www/virtual/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/tmp/hn_captcha_710df.jpg) returns: (FALSE)
    -Captcha-Debug: Destroy Imagestream.Unable to safe captcha-image.

    I need change any configuration in my php.ini (webhost) ?

    2005-12-28 at 1.41 pm
  148. [Brazil] zegames says:

    gd
    GD Support enabled
    GD Version 2.0 or higher
    FreeType Support enabled
    FreeType Linkage with freetype
    T1Lib Support enabled
    GIF Read Support enabled
    GIF Create Support enabled
    JPG Support enabled
    PNG Support enabled
    WBMP Support enabled

    :) Want more information?

    2005-12-28 at 2.18 pm
  149. [Brazil] zegames says:

    Hi again,

    The disk quote is 90% free

    “It seems there should already be 19 images??”

    No, in hn_captcha_counter.txt I can see ‘17′.

    No solution, then I need wait the new version?

    This week I receive 11 spam comments :~~

    2005-12-28 at 2.49 pm
  150. [Brazil] zegames says:

    0 (zero) .jpg files in tmp folder.

    tmp folder chmod 0777 by cute ftp pro 7.1 :)

    To be Santa Claus in the Christmas is tiring…

    2005-12-28 at 3.08 pm
  151. [Brazil] zegames says:

    “Something is preventing captcha.php to write in that folder :-(
    But what?”

    I have same opnion :/

    You want see my phpinfo page? (I can send to your email)

    2005-12-28 at 3.54 pm
  152. [United States] Rob says:

    I too am getting the “safe” error message, anyone figure this out? strange thing is it was working for me when i first loaded it up.

    2005-12-29 at 10.35 pm
  153. [Indonesia] Sunaryo Hadi says:

    This plugin HTML is not comply with XHTML v1.1 validation.

    Would you like to correct this minor problem!

    2005-12-31 at 3.48 pm
  154. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Sunaryo (140): Captcha! is currently XHTML 1.0 valid (Just click validator).
    I’ll switch to 1.1 as soon as I move to WP 2.0. Anyway, can you tell me the faults or an XHTML 1.1 validator URL?

    2005-12-31 at 6.27 pm
  155. [Germany] 50 Jahre und kein bisschen leise.. » Theme verbessert… says:

    [...] So, habe fertig Da gingen die Tage des Jahreswechsels damit drauf, mein Theme komplett umzuschreiben, zu erweitern, neue Plugins zu installieren. Vor allem AntiSpam.Plugins (!!). Seit Weihnachten 35 x Kommentar-Spam! Ich nutze jetzt “Akismet”, “CaptCha”. Leider wird beim Captcha in dem Kästchen, in dem die TrueType Fonts erscheinen sollen, nichts angezeigt. Die Pfade stimmen aber, GDLib wir auch unterstützt, weiss jemand Rat??? Mal sehen, was der Skype-Button bringt, – ein Umfragen-Script eingebaut, mal sehen, was mir dazu noch einfällt… Wer eine Sammlung von Spam-Tools für Wordpress sucht, hier ein interessanter Link [...]

    2006-01-02 at 10.46 pm
  156. [Taiwan] Derrick says:

    Many thanks to you for the great plugin :mrgreen:
    I found the plugin can’t work normally if I change the Permalink format from Default to any other format, ex : Date and name based or Numeric.
    If I click Generate a New ID button, the page goes into a 404 error page with wrong URL.
    http://mydomain/index.php/2005/12/31/10/—&gt;the right URL
    after click Generate a new ID, the page goes to
    http://mydomain/2005/12/31/10/————-&gt;the error page
    Any idea ?
    Many thanks.

    2006-01-03 at 12.03 pm
  157. [Mexico] italo says:

    como le hago para que me aparesca en la seccion de comments, tengo que poner un Get o algo asi??… poque hice todo y no me salie en mis comentarios, me podrian ayudar?. saludos!! :P

    2006-01-04 at 5.01 am
  158. [United States] Amber says:

    Thanks for this!

    2006-01-08 at 7.07 pm
  159. [United Kingdom] Derek Morrison says:

    Hello … Can’t get your plugin working with Wordpress 2.0. Can you advise whether it is meant to or whether an update is pending.

    Best wishes
    Derek

    2006-01-11 at 1.48 pm
  160. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Derek (144):

    The plugin is supposed to work with Wordpress 2.0. Other people are already using it. Can you tell me a bit more about your problem? I think it could be a setup issue rather than a WP 2.0 compatibility one.

    On the other hand, Akismet plugin is already included in Wp 2.0, and it’s really effective against spam.

    2006-01-11 at 1.57 pm
  161. [United Kingdom] Eliza says:

    I have installed the plugin on my site but it doesn’t seem to be working – I followed the instructions, but nothing appears on my comments pages – http://www.mikehelms.org/blog/

    2006-01-12 at 1.07 pm
  162. [Mexico] skull says:

    Hola, he estado probando el Plugin y tengo un problema.

    Como menciona derrick (#143), tambien he cambiado los permalinks y al momento de generar un nuevo ID me redirecciona hacia mi pagina principal, te dejo un ejemplo de los enlaces que genera, uso WP 2.0

    http://www.cancunenses.com/nombre/archivo/2006/01/14/nombre-de-post

    http://www.cancunenses.com/nombre/index.php

    2006-01-15 at 3.12 am
  163. [United States] Mike Seiler . com » Blog Archive » Wordpress Plugins says:

    [...] Captcha!: Require people to type in a code before posting, to fight off the spambots. [...]

    2006-01-18 at 8.00 am
  164. [Colombia] Antonio says:

    Al instalar el plugin en la ventana de configuración aparece el siguiente mensaje “Error: No TrueType Fonts (TTF) rendering support.
    You have to recompile your GD extension, or ASK your ISP for help”

    Alguna sugerencia?

    2006-01-23 at 5.45 am
  165. [United States] Adam Recknor says:

    Hi Boriel

    I installed your 1.9 Captcha and when I get the code wrong, or request a new code, it brings me back to the main page. Any ideas the problem? Thanks

    2006-02-01 at 6.24 pm
  166. [Germany] .:[blog.haeckser.net]:. » Blog Archive » Nun auch hier ein Spamschutz says:

    [...] Danke für Deinen Captcha Patch, Niels. [...]

    2006-02-03 at 4.07 pm
  167. [Peru] FTP hosting says:

    This is a really good blog! Congratulations for your work, Boriel. It’s interesting and smart. In fact, my sister and I think that you may be perfect to work for us in our project about FTP hosting. We will write you very soon. Keep up the good work.

    2006-02-03 at 6.23 pm
  168. [Spain] miguev says:

    Great plugin, hard to read even to humans! :D

    I managed to get it working only after reading comments #36 and #46, so maybe it would be good to include this two tips in readme.txt:
    – Logout if you want to see the captcha
    – Include this tag in your theme’s comments.php just before “/form” HTML tag.

    Thanks for this plugin and for your support here :)

    2006-02-04 at 8.17 pm
  169. [Germany] MacTVs Blog says:

    [...] Nun habe ich das Capcha! Plugin installiert. Damit muss man nun bei einem Kommentar einen Zahlencode eingeben. Wer das nicht immer machen will, der möge sich bei mir registieren. [...]

    2006-02-05 at 4.46 pm
  170. [Canada] Alan says:

    Great idea…

    2006-02-06 at 5.21 am
  171. [United States] » Avoiding Comment Spam on Wordpress says:

    [...] I found the captcha plugin from the blog of El Rincón de Boriel and the plugin works perfectly. If you are running Wordpress and is looking for an excellent way to combat crawling comment spam bots, I like this Wordpress Captcha plugin. [...]

    2006-02-06 at 7.14 am
  172. [Netherlands] Edde says:

    Works like a charm! Thanks! :D

    2006-02-06 at 10.00 am
  173. [Spain] Enrique says:

    Hello:

    I,ve done all the work in README.TXT : permissions, directories….
    I´ve activated the plugin

    Nothing appears.

    I think I must edit somewhere to call the “captcha function”. Where?. What?

    THANK YOU!!!

    2006-02-07 at 11.54 am
  174. [Spain] Enrique says:

    Hello:

    WORKS OK!!!

    These were my problems:

    I was recognised as Admin, so no captcha appeared. I logged out and got GARBAGE error

    TMP permisions were wrong (044). I CHMOD to 777. Garbage error corrected.

    THANK YOU FOR THIS PLUGIN!!!!!!!!!

    2006-02-07 at 12.26 pm
  175. [United States] Robert Simmons says:

    I had the same problem that was stated in comment 153. It wound up being a problem with the fact I am using a WordPress option to reformat my permalinks. This creates an .htaccess with mod rewrite behavior in it to reformat the URLs. When the plugin was using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to determine the page to which to return, it got “index.php” instead of the post specific URL. I changed all instances of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] in both captcha.php and captcha/hn_captcha.class.php and everything works fine. The only remaining problem is that the limit on retries seems to not be working. I can live with that for awhile.

    Again, although this worked for me doesn’t mean it’ll work for you, but I thought it might be helpful to some people.

    2006-02-07 at 5.59 pm
  176. [United States] Running as Root » Blog Archive » Comment Spam says:

    [...] I have arrived. I finally been found by the comment spammers. Yesterday I racked up 40+ comments, all of them spam. I have the blogged configured to hold all comments, trackbacks, etc so none of this showed up in the content area. It’s still a pain in the ass to have to go through them and delete them all. I did a quick search of the plugins available for WordPress and found a promising looking comment spam prevention plugin named Captcha. [...]

    2006-02-07 at 6.25 pm
  177. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Robert (160): Right, Robbert, using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] will work for most cases. Some people (Derrick, 143) says it does not work for him.

    I think the very real solution is to use safe_link() function instead of permalinks. The following will be included in captcha 2.0:

    <?php
// Insert this function in captcha.php file ....
function back_url() {
	global $post;
	
	$result = get_settings('home') . '/' . get_settings('blogfilename') . '?';
	
	if ($post->post_status == 'static')
		$result .= 'page_id';
	else
		$result .= 'p';
			
	$result .= '='.$post->ID;
	$sep = '&amp;';

	foreach ($_GET as $k => $v) {
		if ($k == 'p') continue;
		if ($k == 'page_id') continue;
		if ($v == '') continue;
		$result .= "$sep$k=$v";
	}

	return $result;
}

// End of new code
?>

    Those who has permalink problems should try this fix.

    2006-02-07 at 9.08 pm
  178. [Germany] DJ Sonic says:

    Great Plugin! Thanks to it I got rid of comment-spam.
    Nice work ;)

    2006-02-09 at 11.54 am
  179. [United States] Axel Segebrecht » Blog Archive » New and Improved Wordpress 2.0.1 says:

    [...] I’ve finally gotten around to updating this weblog to Wordpress 2.0.1 and am happy to report that everything is working Also new is the excellent AJAX-ed Shoutbox by Andrew Sutherland (Wordspew), and CaptCha! is finally working. Meaning: You can now post comments again!!! [...]

    2006-02-09 at 11.57 am
  180. [United States] Mikee’s World » Preventing Comment SPAM says:

    [...] I hate it when those spambots try to post their spam on my blog.  I hate it so much that if I caught one of these spammers, I will definitely bash their heads against the wall.  Ok, maybe not kill them but I will definitely make them suffer.  Spam nowadays is like a plague, it’s everywhere.  In emails, newsgroups, bulletin boards, wikis, and blog comments.  So I tried to ask around for a solution to prevent spamming on my new and shiny blog.  Again, Benj Arriola – came to the rescue.  One of his blogs, pointed me to this blog which makes available a wordpress captcha plugin for download.  I installed the plugin and came across another plugin – my server’s PHP is not compiled with TTF rendering for GD.  So I have to re-compile PHP to support it. [...]

    2006-02-09 at 9.11 pm
  181. [Switzerland] festplatte.ch » Eingesetzte Plugins says:

    [...] Name: CaptCha! Beschreibung: Verhindert Spameinträge von automatischen Robots. Modifikationen: Text und Layoutanpassungen Authors page: http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 Download  [...]

    2006-02-09 at 11.00 pm
  182. [United States] Seth says:

    Having just managed to make my site a bit more visible…. I managed to invite a lot of comment spam so I grabbed your plugin. Moments later I had a fantastic captcha goin’!

    Only one tiny tiny problem… my backURL (New ID) seems to take me to my main index rather than the same post/comment page. Any idea what I did wrong?

    2006-02-11 at 7.44 pm
  183. [United States] Seth says:

    Ok, so now I feel goofy after seeing a possible fix 5 posts above my request. I’ll try and let you know!

    2006-02-11 at 7.50 pm
  184. [United States] Seth says:

    Well, it broke my theme and still didn’t provide the correct result for New ID.

    Thanks!

    2006-02-11 at 7.55 pm
  185. [United States] elyograg says:

    I’m having the same “new ID” problem as others. I updated the back_url function as described above, but it did not help. It does not appear to have caused any issues with my theme, though.

    I’m using Wordpress 2.0.1 on Apache 1.3 with the built in Captcha 1.9. It runs on Debian 3.1 from packages, except for all PHP apps and PHP itself, which is version 4.4.2 compiled from source, plus Zend Optimizer 2.6.2. I can send you phpinfo() separately if it is needed.

    2006-02-13 at 4.20 pm
  186. [Spain] Boriel says:

    elyograg (170), I copied an old version of back_url(). Try now, and copy function from comment #165.

    2006-02-13 at 4.30 pm
  187. [United States] elyograg says:

    Still no joy with the updated code. Doesn’t seem to break anything, either.

    2006-02-13 at 5.00 pm
  188. [United States] Seth says:

    Works here!

    Im’ unbroken, getting the correct permalink, and new captchas.

    fantastic!

    2006-02-13 at 9.29 pm
  189. [Spain] Boriel says:

    elyograg (172):

    I visited your blog and test it.

    It’s working for wrong codes (that is. If the user enters wrong code,
    it goes back to the right page, and the comment is preserved).

    But NEW ID button is not working. To fix-it, edit file
    hn_captcha.class.php, line #489, which reads:

    <?php 
// This is the current code at line #489 
$s .= '<form style="display:inline;" name="captcha2" action="' .
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].$this->QUERY_STRING. '" method="post">' . "\n";
?>

    And replace it with:

    <?php
// Replace the above with this one:
$s .= '<form style="display:inline;" name="captcha2" action="' .
captcha::back_url() . '" method="post">' . "\n";
?>

    This will fix NEW ID button.

    2006-02-13 at 11.02 pm
  190. [United States] hu says:

    :twisted:

    2006-02-14 at 1.23 am
  191. [United States] Lydia Finch’s Blog » Commenting Now Easier says:

    [...] Just a quick note to let everyone know the inconvenient image code verification (a.k.a. CaptCha!) has been removed now! I’m using Dr Dave’s excellent Spam Karma plug-in instead which has more features, better protection (hopefully that will include the new shoutbox) and is more transparent to you users (i.e. you don’t notice anything unless you are trying to spam). Have fun commenting and let me know if you come across any bugs or abnormal behaviour. –Axel.   [...]

    2006-02-16 at 5.10 pm
  192. [United Kingdom] Andrew Hearn’s Blog » Blog Archive » Wordpress Blog install says:

    [...] New Plugin: Captcha 1.9, from http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2006-02-21 at 12.46 pm
  193. [Greece] Costas says:

    Great plugin :-) It works right out fo the box!
    Please include my link http://laitsas.com/wordpress/28/lightstats/ into your “sites using captcha” list.
    Nice work, keep trying.

    2006-02-27 at 8.41 am
  194. [Germany] blogwürdig » Blog Archive » neue Kategorie für Wordpress says:

    [...] CaptCha! – Zur Vermeidung von Kommentarspam. [...]

    2006-03-01 at 7.45 pm
  195. [Republic Of Korea] >life in BlackEngine : Blog Archive : Wordpress 갈아엎기 says:

    [...] Capcha [...]

    2006-03-04 at 9.30 am
  196. [United States] Jaime says:

    Just installed it. Fantastic. I only had one small problem. With Mysql 4.0.24 the setup script returned an error on the table creation for the VARCHAR column. It suggested that BLOB was the proper column size. I changed the size to the recommended BLOB and the installation went fine.

    I don’t really use mysql that much, so I don’t know if my version is too far out of date or whatever. I write this just in case anyone has the same problem or it is an overlooked bug.

    Thanks for the great plugin.

    2006-03-04 at 9.35 pm
  197. [Brazil] oculos says:

    Hola!

    See, This plugin sounds great! But, for some reason, when I intall it, it can only be seen on Internet Explorer on the Mac. I use a Mac and Firefox and Safari, and it doesn’t show the image…

    Any clue on why that happen?

    Yours,

    oculos

    2006-03-06 at 6.23 pm
  198. [Brazil] oculos says:

    Sorry, my mistake – I am a registered user and, as such, I didn’t get the code… Duh!

    Congratulations for this excelent work!

    Cheers,

    oculos

    P.S. – if you want, I can translate the strings into Portuguese – let me know!

    2006-03-06 at 8.39 pm
  199. [Germany] MacTVs Blog says:

    [...] Seit nun 2 Tagen werde ich trotz CaptCha!-plugin zugebommt, und bekomme nun jeden Tag bis zu 17 Spam Kommentare. Da hat also wieder einmal “so ein Drecksack” (Sorry, für den Ausdruck) das System auf irgendeiner Weise geknackt oder umgangen. Es treibt mich noch in den Wahnsinn. [...]

    2006-03-09 at 6.29 pm
  200. [Hungary] László Monda’s Blog » Blog Archive » Blog Migrated, Comments Enabled says:

    [...] The most apparent blog change I’ve made is finally enabling the comments. Comments were disabled for a while in my blog because of the massive amounts of comment spam I got, but there is a great way to evade them. This method is called CAPTCHA and it’s wonderfully simple and effective. There are more WordPress CAPTCHA plugins, but most of them are crap. Fortunately there is a real gem among them, the Capcha! plugin. You gotta try it if you wanna communicate through your blog without being flooded with spam. [...]

    2006-03-16 at 1.26 am
  201. [Spain] Mochi says:

    Muy bueno :mrgreen:

    2006-03-16 at 1.18 pm
  202. [Brazil] oculos says:

    Dear Jose,

    I still get some spam (though Akismet blocks like 100% of it). But shouldn’t I be getting no spam at all?
    I have the same problem as #111. The only thing I altered on your script was that VARCAR (?) thing, to the other one (B…).

    And i don’t think it’s trackback, as I also got TrackBack Validator activated…

    What can be wrong? Maybe the font I’m using is too obvious?

    Yours,

    oculos

    2006-03-16 at 10.19 pm
  203. [United States] Russell says:

    A couple of issues.

    -I had the Blob issue as mentioned before, I had to change “hn_captcha` VARCHAR(8192)” to “hn_captcha` VARCHAR(255)” in order to get it to install.
    -After the install, the captcha submenu never appears so I’m unable to configure it. I’ve tried to delete/reactivate but have been unable to get it to work.

    Any Ideas?

    2006-03-19 at 12.05 pm
  204. [Germany] weblog]vdpuetten » Blog Archive » Captcha Plugin für Wordpress says:

    [...] Das Plugin ist relativ einfach installiert! Es kann hier runtergeladen werden: http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2006-03-21 at 2.08 pm
  205. [Canada] But I Digress » Blog Archive » Anti-spam techniques says:

    [...] So, what to do? Well, there are a few options. Looking in the Wordpress Plugins Database, there are a lot of anti-spam packages. What I want is more of a capcha functionality, where the user is presented with an image that they must mentally translate to a string and enter that in. Very difficult for a program to do, but I’m sure spammers are working on OCR techniques, not to mention employing real people. There’s a Capcha plugin for WP, but it requires a little work to set up. [...]

    2006-03-24 at 6.36 pm
  206. [United States] Mike and Summers Blog » no more comments says:

    [...] I got flat sick of spammers. I tried using this plugin that adds captcha to help prevent spam. Well it only stoped about 1/2 the spam, and how the othr 1/2 of the people still manage to get past that is beyond me. I know that who ever is writting the bots that spam is only wanting a pay check but I think youre an asshat for doing it. Take your talents to somewhere else. Sorry for no more comments but I got sick of dealing with the non stop comments that had nothing to do with anything but trying to help increase someone elses page rank in search engines.   [...]

    2006-03-25 at 6.29 pm
  207. [Cuba] f rivera says:

    me parece muy util este plugin, creo que resolvere los problemas de spam

    2006-03-31 at 10.29 pm
  208. [Germany] mondsucht » Spam und so says:

    [...] weil es mittlerweile echt unerträglich wurde mit den ganzen spammigen kommentaren (4 am tag sind vllt nicht für jederman viel – mir hats gereicht): ich probiere jetzt das captcha!-plugin für wordpress. [...]

    2006-04-08 at 10.30 am
  209. [Germany] hollemann » Blog Archive » Captcha on says:

    [...] Der Kommentar-Spam wird nicht weniger und ist nach wie vor entweder unanständig oder kommerziell. Wie angekündigt versuche ich es daher mit einem Captcha-Plugin, nämlich Anti Spam Captcha. Scheint ganz ordentlich zu funktionieren, ich habe schon gemerkt, daß man beim generieren einer neuen ID wieder auf die Hauptseite kommt, aber das sollte eigentlich auch nicht nötig sein. Wenn’s noch weitere Probleme gibt, dann bitte einen kurzen Kommentar oder eine Mail. [...]

    2006-04-10 at 4.36 am
  210. [Argentina] LA PAPA CONCURRENTE»Blog Archive » Something wrong… says:

    [...] En las últimas semanas ha sido objeto de ataques de Spam que antes habián sido controlados sin mayores armas que limitar links. Ahora Phentermine, Tramadol, Cialis y un montón de gente que cree que tengo un "nice blog" me estaba llenando el correo. Solución : Captcha. Los primeros humanos que lo usaron se vieron ante verificaciones imposibles. Solución: Cambiar el tipo de fuente por uno más claro. Ahora no deberián haber problemas. [...]

    2006-04-13 at 11.04 pm
  211. [Germany] Nuckelhamster says:

    Great PlugIn!

    Will it work with WP-ContactForm?

    That would be great…

    Thx.

    2006-04-16 at 9.47 am
  212. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Nuckelhamster (195): Currently not, because WP-Contact form is a completely different plugin. But I’m working on a possible solution.

    2006-04-16 at 11.43 pm
  213. [Germany] gogo says:

    Does it work with WP 2.0?

    2006-04-17 at 1.35 pm
  214. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Yes, it does (this site is currently under WP 2.0.1).

    If you happen to be using WP 2.0, please upgrade to 2.0.1 ASAP as it seems to fix several issues (some of them security related).

    2006-04-17 at 1.38 pm
  215. [United States] din100 » 1st spammer on this site says:

    [...] well I had my 1st spammer   on this site today. so I’m enabling the catcha plug in. That will stop all the automatic spam bots. [...]

    2006-04-18 at 12.10 pm
  216. [Germany] \:braincache » Captcha Plugin says:

    [...] ich habe ein Captcha Plugin gefunden, das einfach einzubinden ist. nach dem Download braucht man nur noch ein Trutypefont, das dann zum erstellen der entsprechenden zeichen verwendet wird. – plugin hochladen – im admin Panel aktivieren – unter “Optionen” im Captcha Reiter die Anpassungen vornehmen (also Pfad zum TMP Ordner angeben, der auch beschrieben werden kann, etc.) – testen/glücklich sein. Abgelegt unter: Allgemein — info @ 16:49 [...]

    2006-04-20 at 2.49 pm
  217. [United States] bubuli says:

    it works! thanks.

    2006-04-23 at 11.49 pm
  218. [Hong Kong] Rants, Inc. » Blog Archive » Tired of Deleting Spam in Your WordPress Blog? says:

    [...] Yes, I’ve tried Akismet, but the I still found myself deleting so much spam in my blog.  So what’s the next option?  Stop those bastard robot spammers dead on their tracks: I started using one of those thingies that generates a random text image on the comment page.  There are a number of plugins for WP to add this to your site.  I struggled for a while with SecureImage, but I keep getting broken image links even after providing the correct path to ImageMagick convert utility.  In the end I settled with Captcha!.  [...]

    2006-04-23 at 11.52 pm
  219. [United States] Swobodin’s Blog » Blog Archive » Finally, installed Captcha says:

    [...] Spammers made me shit: over 100 spams per day obliged me to install a Captcha plugin that works fine for now; I choosed fonts that can be read by human beings, hope it doesn’t bother you, serious people of course. [...]

    2006-04-27 at 4.10 pm
  220. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    hy boriel!

    after a year of using your great plug-in, I’m getting my first flood of Spam. seems like they found an OCR-technique to read the captcha-image … I was allready using hard-to-read fonts … if I make them harder to read, no one will post anymore, I guess … :cry:

    2006-04-28 at 1.09 pm
  221. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Keep in mind these:

    1. Check they’re not pingback nor trackback (referral) comments (I use trackback validator for this)
    2. Check they’re not registered users (If you allow users to register your blog). Registered users are not changelled.
    3. Check that your “Captcha Secret” key is not the default one. The captcha secret must be a long passphrase only known by you. Change it, and see if you are receiving more spam.
    4. Use more than one font. You’re only using 1 font, this make easier your captcha to be broken. Use 3 fonts (I can suggest you some of them from Dafont). Choosing different fonts makes your captcha stronger.
    5. WP 2.0 seems to have some security bugs which could allow people to bypass captcha (and other filters). Upgrade to WP 2.0.1

    Hope these helps… :?

    2006-04-28 at 1.37 pm
  222. [United States] Ryan’s Rarely Updated Blog » Opening the flood gates…. says:

    [...] Captcha! – Plug in that inserts an image challenge (captcha) to the comment field [...]

    2006-04-28 at 2.34 pm
  223. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    thanks for your (as allways :) instant help, boriel!
    i will tell you what happens!

    2006-04-28 at 3.48 pm
  224. [United States] ~theasianmenace » Blog Archive » Site Updated to Wordpress 2.0.2 says:

    [...] Added comment CAPTCHA authentication with Wordpress plugin from Boriel. [...]

    2006-04-29 at 7.25 pm
  225. [Germany] pregos blog » Blog Archive » Wordpress Comment SPAM says:

    [...] Seit längerer Zeit habe ich mit SPAM auf meinem Blog zu kämpfen. Im Schnitt handelt es sich täglich um ~50 Kommentare zu Posts, in denen dann Links zu Onlinespielen, Erotikseiten oder Onlineapotheken enthalten sind. Ich hatte das Problem unsauber gelößt, indem ich eingestellt hatte jedes Kommentar selber zu authorisieren. Endlich kann ich dieses hoffentlich bald abschalten, dank des Captcha! Plugins für Wordpress. [...]

    2006-04-30 at 7.58 am
  226. [Italy] PocaCola Blog » CaptCha! says:

    [...] D’ora in poi per effettuare un post sarà necessario inserire un codice di convalida generato sul momento dal sito.In questo modo i software che in automatico cercano i blog e riempiono di commenti pubblicitari avranno vita più difficile !.Se a qualcuno può interessare, il Plug-In originale per Word Press lo trovate qui : http://www.boriel.com/. [...]

    2006-05-04 at 7.01 am
  227. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    8)
    everything fine again! Spam stopped, after I installed the trackback-validtor plugin and changed the fonts …

    2006-05-04 at 11.04 am
  228. [Germany] myRaiko’s Blog… » Blog Archive » Kampf dem Spam says:

    [...] Plugin: Capcha! Plugin [...]

    2006-05-05 at 11.52 am
  229. [Denmark] ulrik nielsen says:

    Hi there,

    great work with the Captcha plugin for wordpress.

    - i have made a danish translation for the plugin, so if you whant it just drop me an email and i’ll send you the diff files :)

    best regards ulrik

    2006-05-08 at 8.56 pm
  230. [United States] jetshack.com » Blog Archive » Plugin List says:

    [...] CaptCha! This plugin inserts an image challenge (captcha) at the WP comment form, requiring the user to identify the displayed code. [...]

    2006-05-09 at 3.00 pm
  231. [United States] Shane says:

    I am using v1.9 in WP 2.0.2 … When I click the new ID button it pushes me out to the homepage of my blog. Is anyone else experiencing this or does anyone know of a solution? Thanks … BTW – This plugin is a lifesaver! I used to get 100+ spam comments a day.

    2006-05-09 at 8.05 pm
  232. [Peru] Guillermo says:

    Hola Boriel!

    Fantástico tu plugin!

    He tratado y tratado (sin éxito) de acomodar los estilos y layout en mi blog, para que esté alineado con el resto de los campos dentro de un $lt;fieldset&gt.

    Alguna sugerencia?

    Gracias!

    2006-05-10 at 3.11 pm
  233. [Peru] Guillermo says:

    Hola de nuevo! Ya configuré el captcha para se vea perfectamente alineado con mi formulario.

    Gracias!

    2006-05-10 at 4.07 pm
  234. [Germany] MamboBlog » Der Kampf gegen Windmühlen - den Spam says:

    [...] Nun habe ich die Hürde noch ein Stück höher gelegt, und zwar mit dem Einbau eines Capchas. Jetzt werde ich beobachten müssen, wie es seine Arbeit verrichtet. Ich weiß, dass der Aufwand für die Eingabe eines Kommentars dadurch ansteigt, aber in den letzten Tagen hat der Ansturm einiger menschlicher Massenspamer mich dazu veranlasst, hier nachzulegen. [...]

    2006-05-10 at 5.04 pm
  235. [Germany] riverofgod » Blog Archive » Krieg den Spammern says:

    [...] Nach dem ich über die letzten Wochen verteilt ca. 5 bis 10 Spam-Kommentare (also Müll mit Werbung für Spielcasinos und Pheromone) erhielt und ich diese jedes Mal bearbeiten und als Spam markieren musste, hab ich auf Empfehlung von F.B. den captcha!-Plugin installiert. Scheint gut zu funktionieren. Mal sehen ob damit Ruhe einkehrt. Die Bedienung ist ganz einfach. Ihr müsst einfach beim Schreiben eines Kommentars zusätzlich unten noch ein paar Zahlen und Buchstaben lesen und eintippen. Echt einfach! [...]

    2006-05-11 at 3.22 pm
  236. [Germany] riverofgod » Blog Archive » Kampf dem Spam says:

    [...] Nach dem ich über die letzten Wochen täglich bis zu 10 Spam-Kommentare zu bearbeiten hatte, dachte ich mir, ich hör mal auf den F.B. und installier mir den captcha!_Plugin. Für euch heisst das ab heute: Ihr müsst bei jedem Kommentare 7 Zeichen (Zahlen und Buchstaben) aus einem Bild lesen und diese dann in ein Formular übertragen bevor ihr euren Kommentar abschicken könnt. Funktioniert aber sehr einfach! [...]

    2006-05-11 at 3.48 pm
  237. [United States] Todd says:

    Hi. I want to change the message

    You must read and type the 5 chars within 0..9 and A..F, and submit the form.

    Where can I find this text and how can I change it?

    2006-05-11 at 6.35 pm
  238. [Spain] Boriel says:

    A new version Captcha 2.0 is out. It’s supposed to solve this issue.

    Please, download and give it a try.

    2006-05-13 at 5.50 pm
  239. [Germany] Chris says:

    No image is displayed (look at http://www.cryss.net/?p=13)

    The fonts are detected and gd has freetype support.

    2006-05-14 at 11.39 am
  240. [United Kingdom] LiuCougar says:

    2.0 is working fine, thanks for this plugin :mrgreen:

    2006-05-14 at 3.27 pm
  241. [Peru] Guillermo says:

    I have reverted back to 1.9a for now. The image is generated properly, but the form does not get processed; as if the code was entered wrong but no error message is shown.

    2006-05-14 at 5.49 pm
  242. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #223, Chris:

    You installed the plugin in the wrong directory!

    Disable it, and move the file to this path:
    wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php

    Once done, enable it again.

    —
    Many people is telling me the same. :( Any suggestion? Perhaps the installation instructions?

    By the way, a Wiki is under way.

    2006-05-14 at 6.39 pm
  243. [Germany] Chris says:

    Thank you for your quick replay. It works now !
    Thanks for the Plugin, too! :D

    2006-05-14 at 7.31 pm
  244. [Switzerland] tiki says:

    thanks for the v.2.0 :!: :!:
    you rock !!! :D

    2006-05-14 at 11.11 pm
  245. [Mexico] Carlos Cabrera says:

    :|

    2006-05-14 at 11.44 pm
  246. [Netherlands] John Adam says:

    After activating the plugin in WP 2.02, I get a server error message that no ttf font can be found…I cannot get to the options page to type in the absolute url to the ttf folder i uploaded.

    I found a place in your php where the url should go, and typed it in there, re-uploaded and activated, but still get the same server error.

    Any suggestions?

    2006-05-16 at 10.50 am
  247. [Germany] HanfBlog says:

    Jukebox und neuer Spamschutz Teil II…

    Nachdem ich damals den Captcha-Spamschutz eingeführt hatte, blieb der Spam aus. Doch seit zwei Tagen haben es die Bots geschafft den Schutz zu überwinden. Deshalb setze ich nun auf eine stärkere Captcha-Variante, die es mir z.B. erlaubt verschiedene…

    2006-05-18 at 10.57 am
  248. [United States] elyograg says:

    I just put the 2.0 version on my website. When I click the “new ID” button, the code is the same every time. The picture is regenerated and looks different, but the actual code is unchanged.

    Is that the intended design? Seems it would be better to generate an all-new code, like version 1.9 did.

    2006-05-18 at 6.03 pm
  249. [Spain] Boriel says:

    elyorag (#232): Yes, NewID button only changes the look. Not the code. This is a bug I’m currently fixing.

    Thanks. ;)

    2006-05-18 at 6.06 pm
  250. [Denmark] allan says:

    getting this error if code is wrong
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_delete_comment() in /usr/home/skattetryk.dk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php on line 1027

    2006-05-18 at 10.17 pm
  251. [Spain] Boriel says:

    How strange :?:

    That function is defined in WP 2.x in the file: wp-includes/comment-functions.php at line #214

    Check this file exists and has that function defined. If you’re using WP 1.5 or older (I guess it’s that), then edit file captcha.php, and replace line #1027 with:

    do_action('delete_comment', $post_ID);

    This should fix it.

    2006-05-19 at 7.40 pm
  252. [United States] stephanie says:

    I don\\\’t understand how to set up a True Type font folder. Any helps or tips would be most appreciated!

    2006-05-20 at 4.21 am
  253. [India] Navjot Singh says:

    Hey great plugin. I used it and works like a charm.

    2006-05-20 at 7.36 am
  254. [United Kingdom] bklocke says:

    Hiya,
    first of all, i’d like to thank you Boriel for your great plugin!
    As i tried to keep my blog xhtml 1.1 strict kompatible, i noticed some problems. However i was able to solve the most, but there are still two problems left.
    You can see the result of the Validator here.
    And the refering page here: Benny’s Weblog

    Would be great if you, or of course anybody else has a clue on how to fix that.

    Bye Benny :D

    2006-05-20 at 7.49 am
  255. [United Kingdom] bklocke says:

    Sorry forgot to close the link tags! :roll:

    2006-05-20 at 7.51 am
  256. [Italy] kernel says:

    sorry, but this plugin can run on WP 2.0?

    2006-05-20 at 11.17 am
  257. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #240, kernel:

    Yes, it does (For a comprehensive list, see http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility)

    2006-05-20 at 11.36 am
  258. [Italy] kernel says:

    I activated the plugin and i set the configuration without errors, but when i insert the comment i don\\\’t see the image-code. Where i worng?

    2006-05-20 at 12.43 pm
  259. [Germany] tboley says:

    You saved my day :-)

    After 120 SPAM-Komments this Plugin was the solution. Askimet fechtes them, but the massive amount of them slowed down the server.

    Btw.: Is there a chnace, that the next version returns th ecorrect permalink if the button to regnerate the image is used?

    2006-05-20 at 3.26 pm
  260. [Spain] La Aguja says:

    Hola,
    acabo de instalar la versión 2.1 y veo que me siguen bombardeando con los malditos spam. He hecho alguna prueba y veo que cualquier clave que se introduzca es aceptada por el plugin. Incluso la cadena vacía. ¿Habré hecho algo mal? El plugin funciona… bueno, que se ve y todo eso. Pero con el error que comento. El único cambio con el original es que he puesto 6 caracteres para teclear. Agradeceré alguna indicación. Gracias.

    2006-05-20 at 8.58 pm
  261. [India] Rajat says:

    Mate , I did everything correctly , but the image does not appear …plz help

    2006-05-21 at 2.04 pm
  262. [Spain] La Aguja says:

    Hola Boriel,

    con la versión 2.2 ya me funciona el plugin. Muchas gracias. Si me permites, intentaré aportar una mejora (que supongo que se puede hacer).

    Si la línea donde aparece el dibujo de Captcha! tiene un ancla (tipo: #captcha), cuando alguien teclee un código erróneo en lugar de quedarse arriba de la página con wp-comment-post.php se podría direccionar al ancla, y así el autor del comentario vería que su texto no ha sido aceptado al leer el mensaje que aparece encima del dibujo.

    Gracias otra vez por tu rapidez en subir la nueva versión corregida.

    2006-05-21 at 7.00 pm
  263. [United States] test says:

    8O 8O test des.

    2006-05-21 at 11.01 pm
  264. [United States] Youngwhan says:

    Thanks for your plugin. It is so wonderful.

    I have a little problem with your plugin.

    Basically, I am using Threaded Comment Plugin for WP (http://meidell.dk/archives/2005/08/01/threaded-comments-153/ ).

    When I input correct letter using your captcha plugin, there is no problem. But when I put INCORRECT letters, the page is just showing blank page, and do nothing. Basically, the comment put wrong letter is not inserted, but the figure is not good looking.

    I think your plugin has a little problem with the Threded Comment Plugin (http://meidell.dk/archives/2005/08/01/threaded-comments-153/ ). Would you check it out please, if you have a time? Thanks.

    2006-05-21 at 11.35 pm
  265. [United States] Kip says:

    testing…

    2006-05-22 at 5.39 am
  266. [United States] David says:

    Testing?

    2006-05-24 at 6.01 am
  267. [United States] David says:

    I’ve got the plugin installed, configured, and running. No errors during the process, except that the captcha image itself doesn’t show up. The placeholder does, but no image. You can see an example here:

    http://blog.theburrowfamily.net/2006/05/05/running-day-3/

    Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

    2006-05-24 at 6.02 am
  268. [Switzerland] tin says:

    Over here same problem – picture doesn’t show up. And on your Website here it takes very long until the picture shows up.

    2006-05-24 at 7.25 pm
  269. [Spain] Boriel says:

    251 David, and 252 Tin:

    This is being answered over and over again:

    Read previous comments. You have installed captcha.php in the wrong place.

    Deactivate the plugin. Install it in wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php and install it again.

    2006-05-24 at 9.10 pm
  270. [United States] David says:

    Boriel,

    That’s where it is: wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php

    What else might I have done wrong?

    David

    2006-05-24 at 11.03 pm
  271. [United States] Laura Lohr says:

    I installed the plugin, but I am receiving the following error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: iconv() in /home/htvqkoa/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Captcha/captcha.php on line 840

    I can comment without having to verify the characters. Any ideas where I am going wrong?

    2006-05-24 at 11.45 pm
  272. [United States] David says:

    Okay, this is what I’ve done, I apologize for not including all of this in the initial post, I’ve been having problems actually getting the comment to post, and I got tired of retyping everything. I’m using Wordpress 2.0.2

    1)Installed and activated the plugin per the instructions in wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php

    2)Verified that the permissions on the wp-content/plugins/captcha folder are 755 (though I tried 775), and that the owner is the web server user

    3)Verified that the permissions on the files in the captcha folder (captcha.php and readme.txt) are 644 (though I tried 755)

    4)Verified that the permissions for the fonts directory (wp-content/fonts/) and the 6 fonts in the directory are 755. There were once 60 or so fonts in there, but I’ve trimmed this down to 5 or 6 useful ones.

    5)Turned on debuggin in captcha.php and got the following output:

    -Captcha-Debug: Current public key is 0.

    -Captcha-Debug: Expire time is: 2006-05-24 21:09:16
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, public key is: (cf635)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, private key is: (347e2)
    -Captcha-Debug: Current try is 1.

    -Captcha-Debug: Generate a string which contains current try: ()
    -Captcha-Debug: Expire time is: 2006-05-24 21:09:16
    -Captcha-Debug: Output Form with captcha-image.

    6)Checked the gd section from phpinfo() and got the following output:

    -Captcha-Debug: Current public key is 0.

    -Captcha-Debug: Expire time is: 2006-05-24 21:09:16
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, public key is: (cf635)
    -Captcha-Debug: Generate Keys, private key is: (347e2)
    -Captcha-Debug: Current try is 1.

    -Captcha-Debug: Generate a string which contains current try: ()
    -Captcha-Debug: Expire time is: 2006-05-24 21:09:16
    -Captcha-Debug: Output Form with captcha-image.

    7)Deactivated and reactivated the plugin multiple times.

    After all of this I’ve not been successful in getting the captcha image to show up. The form is there, but the image just shows the placeholder and placeholder text. I’m out of ideas. Any suggestions?

    2006-05-25 at 3.30 am
  273. [Switzerland] tin says:

    captcha.php of version 2.3 it at the right place – but it does’t work – I can see only the placeholder text. When I overwrite it with captcha.php of version 2.2 the picture is displayed.

    2006-05-25 at 4.47 am
  274. [United States] David says:

    I hadn’t even thought to try that. I’ve replaced captcha.php from 2.3 with captcha.php from 2.2 and it’s displaying the image just fine for me as well. Now to figure out what’s wrong with 2.3 on my system.

    2006-05-25 at 12.22 pm
  275. [Switzerland] tin says:

    Hi David – good to know that captcha.php 2.2 is working as well on your system ;) So we can say that it must be a bug with version 2.3

    2006-05-25 at 1.39 pm
  276. [Netherlands] Diplo says:

    Hi,

    We are experiencing the same problem as Laura Lohr in 5 different installations of WordPress. Seems to be a bug?

    2006-05-25 at 2.45 pm
  277. [Netherlands] Diplo says:

    Just followed the advise of installing v.2.2 Works perfect!

    2006-05-25 at 2.47 pm
  278. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #260 Diplo, it seems to be a problem with PHP 4.x (it does not implement the ImageEffect function).
    So, in the Options menu, disable “Colors” and “Black & White” options. This should workaround the problem.

    Thanks, Tin. ;)

    2006-05-25 at 7.38 pm
  279. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    thx for the work-around … i had the same problem with the pictures not showing anymore … :x

    2006-05-25 at 9.17 pm
  280. [United States] David says:

    Boriel,

    Thanks for the great plugin! A couple of things:

    I was having massive problems with not all of the digits showing up on the pictures (digits getting pushed off of the frame, or being the same color as the background, or something). Turning off sine wave distortion helped a little, but I still had a few problems. Turning off “use different color” seems to have fixed the problem. FYI for anyone noticing these problems.

    I also noticed that initially after I would enable the plugin, I ended up losing my admin panel. It just wouldn’t load. Some snooping finally showed me that PHP was exceeding the allowed memory with the plugin loaded. Increases the maximum memory allowed in php.ini (default is usually 8M) solved that problem.

    I just figured I’d pass this on to anyone having problems.

    2006-05-27 at 1.52 pm
  281. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #264, Dave: Keep in mind that the more plugins you have installed in your WP blog, the more memory they take, so it’s not a problem of captcha itself. That is: if you uninstall other plugins and install captcha, it should work ok too.

    Anyway, I think 8Mb is to little. I’m not sure how much I’m using, but I think it’s 32 Mb.

    I think it happened with captcha simply because it was the last you installed before running out of memory (or did you installed another plugin after it)?

    By design: Captcha.php uses very little memory in the admin panel. Only the image generation takes some memory (about 32Kb, I think, but not sure), and it doesn’t happen during the admin stage, but during comment-form rendering phase. This means it cannot affect your admin panel.

    > I just figured I’d pass this on to anyone having problems.

    Regarding the fonts sometimes not appearing, it’s a problem of the .TTF fonts you choose (and the PHP GDlib). When selecting a font, it might be flawed and sometimes, for little sizes, it does not display the digit correctly or even does not display it at all (in fact, I have tested many fonts). Don’t know why… :(

    For the fonts I’m currently using, they display always. It’s not a related to sine-distortion or color effects (they’re applied after the digits code have been rendered). So enabling/disabling them won’t affect this issue.

    2006-05-27 at 2.10 pm
  282. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Warning! About Captcha! memory usage.

    I got really concerned about David’s last comment and made some test, to see:

    1. How much memory was my WP system using.
    2. How much memory Captcha! uses.

    PHP has get_memory_usage() function enabled on systems with memory-limit restriction. My web-hosting *does not* has such restriction!

    So I use that function at home (I have my WP replicated at a local home server, for testing purposes). And these are the results:

    26853376 bytes => 25,6 Mb With Captcha! plugin enabled
    26406912 bytes => 25,2 Mb With Captcha! plugin disabled

    Diference:
    446464 bytes => 0,45 Mb (this is the average of memory Captcha! plugin takes)

    These are averages, since memory measures varies a little from time to time (the variation is about 1Kb, anyway).

    Notice, however that my WP system uses about 26Mb of memory (and the more plugins you activate, the more memory it takes). 8Mb is too little. I guess you were about 8Mb before installing captcha, and once you installed it, the server dind’t allow you to execute. ;)

    2006-05-27 at 3.45 pm
  283. [United States] David says:

    Boriel,

    Thanks for the response. Yes, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make it sound like it was a problem with the captcha plugin. It is an issue of having a lot of plugins loaded, and I was apparently already near enough my limit that some little bit of the captcha plugin that was being loaded with the admin panel was enough to set it off. I tested this repeatedly: Turn on the plugin, admin panel goes away, rename it, admin panel comes back. I’ve tested this repeatedly with other plugins too, none of which seem to directly affect the admin panel, and they do the same thing. Boriel is right, this is not a captcha specific problem, I just noticed a few posts on the wordpress support forums about this problem and it took me a while to figure out what might have been going on. It seems to be something to do with when/how Wordpress loads plugins or something. I don’t know enough about php to really analyze thep problem. I posted a response there, and thought I’d post the tip here if anyone else was having the same problem I was.

    As for fonts, thanks for the tip, I really appreciate it. Question about how the plugin uses fonts. Does it pick a font, and then use only that font for a single captcha image, or will it randomly pick a font for each digit within an image (so, up to 5 different fonts, if you have that many installed)?

    Thanks for the attentive, quick responses. This really is helpful.

    2006-05-27 at 8.27 pm
  284. [United States] David says:

    By the way: I noticed the plugin seems to be turned off on your site right now, any reason in particular?

    2006-05-27 at 8.30 pm
  285. [United States] kapikua blog » Actualizacion says:

    [...] El que he elegido para ir probando es el Captcha creado por Jose Rodriguez , un sistema que te obliga a poner un codigo de 5 digitos aleatorios que se crean mostrando una imagen. [...]

    2006-05-27 at 8.38 pm
  286. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #267, David:
    It’s ok. I didn’t meant to be serious with you. :)

    Regarding TTF fonts: Yes, the plugin choses a random TTF font among the available ones for each digit, so they might repeat or not (randomness increases security). I currently have 2 fonts installed. You might notice they both are used randomly.

    2006-05-28 at 12.40 am
  287. [Spain] El Rincón de Boriel » Blog Archive » Adiós, Captcha says:

    [...] Captcha! fue mi segundo plugin. Cuando empecé a crearlo, sabía que la solución no era la más adecuada y que no iba durar para siempre. Por aquel entonces tenía WordPress 1.5, y no conocía Akismet. Había visto otros Captchas, pero me parecían fácilmente quebrantables. [...]

    2006-05-28 at 6.17 pm
  288. [Spain] Boriel says:

    #268, David: Yes, I’ve discontinued Captcha!

    I’ve got tired of it, as explained here, and there are other methods (by now) which also work. When these method fail, I will resurrect it again. :)

    2006-05-28 at 7.18 pm
  289. [United States] Fly together Forever » CaptCha! does not work anymore? says:

    [...] Have no clue, but since several days ago, my blog had kept having comment spams, although CaptCha! is enabled. I have no choice but to try to activate Akismet instead. [...]

    2006-05-29 at 1.13 am
  290. [Spain] Basic Thinking Blog » Caramba.. diese Spammer says:

    [...] Nee, stimmt schon mit den Spamkommentaren kann einem ganz schön auf den Sack gehen, schau Dir ansonsten doch einfach mal: boriel.com/plugins/capcha-plug… [...]

    2006-05-29 at 7.23 pm
  291. [Spain] Captcha-Plugin für Wordpress - WordPress Deutschland Forum says:

    [...] Captcha-Plugin für Wordpress Hallo alle zusammen, ich habe dieses Capcha! Plugin installiert: http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 "Installation" und alle Einstellungen sind auch alle gemacht, Fehler gabs keine nur seh ich leider keine Captchas in den Kommentaren? ;-) Hat jemand eine Idee, woran das liegen k�nnte? Weder in der Readme noch in den KOmmentaren auf der Seite steht was dazu? Andere Frage: Wer von euch kennt evtl. noch ein anderes gutes Captcha-Plugin? :-) [...]

    2006-05-30 at 8.23 am
  292. [Spain] one-word Capcha ??? « WordPress Support says:

    [...] edlucas Member I’m using Boriel’s Capcha! plugin, which seems to be working well so far. It doesn’t use the same word every time, instead it generates a unique 6-letter combination. You get to decide which font(s) it uses to generate the image. [...]

    2006-05-30 at 3.12 pm
  293. [United States] Josh sdf says:

    let’s see

    2006-05-30 at 8.09 pm
  294. [United Kingdom] Brian Turner says:

    Interesting – there doesn’t appear to be a captcha on the captcha blog!!

    2006-05-30 at 8.38 pm
  295. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Brian (#291):

    Yes, it’s explained in the very first line of this page.

    2006-05-30 at 9.01 pm
  296. [United States] paul says:

    I’m testing this thing out… I like what I see.

    2006-05-31 at 6.28 am
  297. [Spain] Boriel says:

    *NOTE*: Captcha! has been disabled in this site. Read the very first line of this page to know why.

    *AVISO*: He desactivado Captcha! en este sitio. Lee la primera línea para saber por qué.

    2006-05-31 at 8.31 am
  298. [Spain] .: tins blog » Blog Archive » Captcha! aufgegeben says:

    [...] Wie ich heute lese, wird das Plugin Captcha! nicht mehr weiter entwickelt. Auch in diesem Blog hier ist es für die Kommentare eingebaut, um möglichst keinen SPAM einzufangen, weil da ja “von Hand” 5 zufällig generierte Buchstaben und/oder Zahlen eingegeben werden müssen und automatische SPAM-Programm sowas (noch) nicht können. Aber leider ist der Kampf gegen den SPAM auch zu einem Katz und Maus Spiel geworden – offenbar rentiert sich die Entwicklung immer neuer Methoden, überall (in EMails, in Foren, in Gästebüchern, in Blogs) diese störenden Quatsch abzuladen. Mich würde ja schon mal interessieren, ob überhaupt jemand auf solche SPAM Angebote eingeht – aber ganz offensichtlich doch. Wie heisst es doch immer so schön: Der Markt bestimmt. Wenn also auf diesen ganzen Quatsch nicht reagiert würde, dann wäre er ja auch sinnlos. Ich lasse jedenfalls das Captcha! Plugin immer noch aktiv, obwohl es wie gesagt, leider nicht mehr weiter entwickelt wird. [...]

    2006-05-31 at 9.15 am
  299. [Spain] abortprinzessin.de » Blog Archiv » Spamblocker? says:

    [...] Die Variante mit dem “Buchstabencode” nennt sich “Captach” – das entsprechende Plugin für WP: http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2006-05-31 at 6.24 pm
  300. [Spain] Wordpress Plugins at Beket Portal says:

    [...] CaptCha! [...]

    2006-06-04 at 1.37 pm
  301. [Spain] moon-drops.com » Blog Archive » Finalmente says:

    [...] E sobre o plugin que me perguntou, se chama Captcha, e o que eu uso pode ser encontrado no site http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17. [...]

    2006-06-04 at 9.26 pm
  302. [Spain] miguev.net » Adiós al SPAM says:

    [...] Así las cosas, he sacado un rato para añadir el plugin de captcha creado por Boriel. La instalación es sencilla, aunque tiene un par de detalles que añadir al readme.txt, y genera unos captchas realmente duros. Es una suerte saber que los caracteres están en el conjunto 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F [...]

    2006-06-05 at 10.22 pm
  303. [Spain] Jose says:

    Probanco Captcha

    2006-06-15 at 9.02 pm
  304. [United States] Sam Davyson » Comments now with Captchas says:

    [...] I have been getting a rather large amount of comment spam which tends to waste my time, and clutter my inbox. So I am have installed a quick plugin that will ask you to write 5 characters before posting. This make take you 3 or 4 seconds, but I hope you don’t mind too much. It helps to keep everything clean. As a bonus incentive comments are now posted before moderation by myself, since most spam will be cut off my the captcha test. I am using this plugin. [...]

    2006-06-17 at 4.42 pm
  305. [Spain] FJ Sanchez says:

    Prueba para ver cpahas

    2006-06-19 at 1.55 pm
  306. [Hungary] harc a spam kommentek ellen - kobak pont org says:

    [...] captcha – captcha: a komment elküldése előtt egy képen látott számokat/betűket kell beírni. A komment spam ellen működik (viszont az emberek sem kedvelik). A trackback ellen hatástalan. [...]

    2006-06-24 at 11.52 am
  307. [United States] Jeff Abbott says:

    This is a captcha test. Thanks!

    2006-06-25 at 3.09 am
  308. [Germany] Rosekids - NewsBlog » Blog Archiv » CaptCha!-Bilder says:

    [...] Ich habe mich übrigens entschlossen, die Kommentarfunktion durch CaptCha!-Bilder (das sind diese schönen Zahlen, die man dann wiederholen muss) zu schützen. Die ständigen-Spam-Einträge, die erst wieder aus der Datenbank gelöscht werden wollten, waren auf Dauer doch extrem nervig. Schade dass das nötig wurde. [...]

    2006-06-27 at 12.28 am
  309. [Spain] Prueba says:

    This is a captcha test. Thanks!

    2006-06-27 at 2.39 pm
  310. [Sweden] naxBlog » Upgrade auf 2.0.3 says:

    [...] Nachdem ich in den letzten Tagen ber 1000 ! Spam Eintrge in meinem Blog hatte, habe ich jetzt auf Version 2.0.3 upgedatet. Das war auch lngst fllig. Das neue Backend ist einiges komfortabler. Als Spamschutz nutzte ich jetzt Akismet und Captcha [...]

    2006-06-27 at 8.42 pm
  311. [United States] deepmojo » says:

    [...] Whew! It ain’t perfect, but that should do the job for now. I was receiving spam comments at a rate of roughly one every 3-5 minutes. Now that’ I’ve updated Bad Behavior and installed the Captcha! plugin the tide should turn significantly. [...]

    2006-06-30 at 7.04 pm
  312. [United States] Pinoy WordPress » Blog Archive » Wordpress Trackback Spam says:

    [...] A couple of weeks ago, I was so excited to see that I had a lot of ‘comments’ for moderation only to find out that they’re all spam – all 43 of them! I then thought, how could comment spam go through if I have the captcha plugin installed? At first, I thought the spammers were deliberately typing in their spam into my blog but when I checked, all the ‘comments’ were actually trackback spam! Now I know how it got through captcha. For those who don’t know, captcha is a wordpress comment plugin that adds a set of characters to type in a small graphic before someone can post a comment. [...]

    2006-07-01 at 3.59 am
  313. [United States] deepmojo » says:

    [...] Whew! It ain’t perfect, but that should do the job for now. I was receiving spam comments at a rate of roughly one every 3-5 minutes. Now that’ I’ve updated Bad Behavior and installed the Captcha! plugin the tide should turn significantly. [...]

    2006-07-01 at 5.25 am
  314. [United Kingdom] Simon says:

    Trying this Captcha! Plugin

    Looks like it’s what I need.

    Love the Sinclair styling – sadly I am old enough to remember frantically saving my pennies to buy one, only a 16K one mind!

    2006-07-03 at 12.43 pm
  315. [Germany] Gedankenablagerungen » Blog Spam says:

    [...] In der letzten Zeit nahm es wirklich überhand. Trotz des Captcha-Plugins. Wie die Mädels und Jungs das umgangen haben – keine Ahnung. [...]

    2006-07-07 at 9.43 am
  316. [United States] blogHelper » Handling Spam on WordPress says:

    [...] CAPTCHA (an alternative plugin)These plugins force commenters to verify their “humanity” by identifying jumbled text displayed in an image. Highly effective against spam bots, but literally destroys your blog’s accessibility and usability as the vision-impaired can never verify themselves. It is thus not surprising that CAPTCHA is usually a last resort against comment spam. Also note that CAPTCHA cannot stop manual comment spam (i.e. determined spammers who answer your CAPTCHA just to push through a spam comment) [...]

    2006-07-07 at 2.53 pm
  317. [Chile] Juano says:

    Hola Boriel, he instalado la ultima version de tu plugin en un WP2.0.3 y me pasa lo mismo que a otros 2 comentarios anteriores, las letras se sobreponen, se quedan una encima de la otra al lado izquierdo. :roll:
    ¿Sabes a que se debe?

    gracias

    2006-07-07 at 5.09 pm
  318. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Juano (#322):

    Desgraciadamente no encontramos solución a ese problema. :(

    Al parecer no es un problema del plugin ni de wordpress, sino de las librerías gráficas GD que tienes con tu PHP. Intenta instalarte una versión más reciente, a ver si se soluciona (o pídeselo a tu administrador).

    2006-07-08 at 9.50 am
  319. pepe says:

    muy buenu

    2006-07-08 at 8.01 pm
  320. [Slovenia] Milan'che says:

    Captcha! test :)

    2006-07-09 at 1.36 pm
  321. [United States] ted says:

    this is a test! :)

    2006-07-11 at 7.19 am
  322. [Germany] CaptCha! at Phantastische Welten says:

    [...] Dieser Blog wird jetzt mit einem CaptCha-Plugin vor pösen Spämmern geschützt [...]

    2006-07-11 at 11.57 am
  323. [Malaysia] Azhar Ahmad says:

    I’m trying! :grin:

    2006-07-12 at 7.46 pm
  324. [Argentina] leandro says:

    voy a probar el plugin, a ver si me libro de los mensajes de viagra

    2006-07-17 at 7.05 pm
  325. [Republic Of Moldova] replicas says:

    nice plugin :smile:

    2006-07-26 at 1.09 pm
  326. [Mexico] Michoacano says:

    Hola, no funciono en mi site :mad:

    2006-07-27 at 3.22 am
  327. [United States] Don says:

    Don’t you use it for your own comments?

    2006-08-03 at 4.38 pm
  328. [United States] Don says:

    Whoopsie, I could learn to read the page and see the answer to my own question…. sorry.

    2006-08-03 at 4.42 pm
  329. [Germany] Externspeicher » Ich brauche ein Captcha says:

    [...] Update: Das Captcha!-Plugin von Boriel funktioniert jetzt. Man muss auf “Download” klicken, um die funktionierende Version zu bekommen, nicht auf “Version 2.5a”. Außerdem sollte man im Admin-Panel die Liste der TTF-Dateien leer lassen und in der Datenbank den TMP-Pfad von Hand setzen (captcha_tmpurl in der Tabelle wp_options). Das TMP-Verzeichnis muss für den Webserver schreibbar sein. Schließlich muss PHP die GD-Bibliothek unterstützen und die GD-Bibliothek TTF-Fonts. [...]

    2006-08-14 at 10.46 am
  330. [United Kingdom] David says:

    Thanks very much :cool:

    2006-08-14 at 2.46 pm
  331. [United States] Pluit Solutions » Blog Archive » I’ve got spams says:

    [...] So I’ve decided to install the Captcha! plugin for wordpress, and sorry for the extra inconvenience caused if you need to leave a comment. General. Programming No Comments . Comments Feed . Trackback URI [...]

    2006-08-17 at 6.29 pm
  332. [Romania] Apollinaire says:

    just trying to see how it works

    2006-08-19 at 10.48 am
  333. [Brazil] Yuji says:

    He probado instalar tu plugin, pero no se ve el imágen. Probé cambiar las fuentes unas cuantas veces y tampoco va. Incluso uso el HN Captcha en otros scripts y no tengo ningún problema. Habrá alguna forma de encontrar el posible error?

    2006-08-21 at 8.25 pm
  334. [Spain] D.Pero says:

    Hola, he activado el plugin pero no encuentro dónde poner el directorio, por más que reviso el php para ponerlo no doy con el lugar donde hay que ponerlo para que encuentre las fuentes.

    ¿Alguien puede decirme ese sencillo paso?.

    gracias, Pero.

    2006-08-22 at 5.05 pm
  335. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Yuji (#337):

    Recuerda que el captcha solo se muestra a usuarios no registrados.

    Comprueba que el plugin está en el directorio plugins/captcha/captcha.php, si no es así, desactívalo, muévelo a ese directorio, y vuélvelo a activar. Esa suele ser la causa más común (en el breve fichero readme se insiste en que ese es el directorio).

    Si sigue fallando, activa el flag “DEBUG” = true en el código de captcha.php. Mira la página y los errores.

    2006-08-23 at 8.25 am
  336. [Spain] Boriel says:

    Pero (#338):

    Puedes elegir cualquier directorio dentro del wordpress. De forma predeterminada, el plugin elige unos. Para ver cuales son, deja en blanco la opción del directorio, y guarda la configuración (entonces aparecerán los directorios por defecto).

    Ese directorio debe estar en tu host. Si no sabes encontrarlo, pregunta al administrador de tu Hosting. El podrá ayudarte, ya que esto depende de cada hosting.

    2006-08-23 at 8.28 am
  337. [United States] Tio loco says:

    Good stuff, great plugin

    2006-09-10 at 8.07 am
  338. [Switzerland] mat says:

    Hello!

    I’m sorry to bother with this again even though two users already seem to have had a similar problem:
    I installed Captcha without problems, TTF-Setup is also ok now, but I just don’t get an image-output!

    And I really think I have it in the right folder:
    wp-content/plugins/captcha/captcha.php
    together with the fontfile in the same-folder

    The interesting thing is: in my local-php-setup (standard under Mac OS X) it works without any problems, but online it doesnt (same relative folders, same fontfile…)

    If you have any clue why, let me know. My blog is under:
    http://www.elzarts.ch/matwp/

    Mat

    2006-09-11 at 4.25 pm
  339. [Switzerland] mat says:

    Boriel: Please remove (/disregard) my last comment as well as this comment here.
    I’m sorry that I didn’t read through all the comments first. The plugin works indeed fine if I disable the color-mode. But I stoped reading after the first 40 comments…

    2006-09-11 at 5.54 pm
  340. [Spain] Man says:

    Gracias por la idea

    2006-09-12 at 2.54 pm
  341. [Argentina] munieca says:

    tendré que probarlo, porque el spam me está matando
    :D

    Gracias!

    2006-09-13 at 11.49 pm
  342. [Switzerland] el tiki says:

    hy boriel!
    i was quite sad, when captcha couldn’t keep the spam away anymore (mainly pingback and trackback spam)… so i kept looking for a solution for months (!) now. after not being able to use Akismet (because my server doesn’t like it), and me being to stupid to get WP-HashCash to work … i found a real easy and working solution:
    :arrow: Spam Karma 2.2
    upload, activate and that’s it. real cool solution i think.

    2006-09-17 at 6.49 pm
  343. [Germany] Gidion Blog » Blog Archive » WordPress - Captcha! Plugin and Line Breaks says:

    [...] On my Wordpress Sites I’m using the wonderfully simple Captch! Plugin from here. It’s a pity it isn’t supported anymore, so when I found a little bug today I had to have a look at it myself. [...]

    2006-09-23 at 11.43 am
  344. [Israel] gaga says:

    testing

    2006-09-24 at 5.53 pm
  345. [Israel] gaga says:

    Bah! Sorry about that! you said to leave a comment in order to see how it works!!

    2006-09-24 at 5.53 pm
  346. [United States] technabob says:

    just wanted to see how this plugin works!

    2006-09-25 at 8.28 pm
  347. [New Zealand] Patrick S says:

    Hey cool plugin…I use it-however i am having troubble from 1.9 to 2.5a-ill sort it out though

    Patrick S

    2006-09-26 at 7.23 am
  348. [Switzerland] dodo says:

    ?where is the captcha for the comment?

    2006-09-26 at 11.46 am
  349. [Argentina] Maguila says:

    No consigo que funcione ni este ni ningun otro Capcha de este tipo, simplemente no funciona, no da error, se configura bien desde el panel de control, pero nunca aparece ninguna letra ni nada de eso para verificar…sera el template? El plugin esta activado, las fuentes en su carpeta, todo bien, pero no aparece el verificador

    2006-09-27 at 12.14 am
  350. [United States] test says:

    testtesttest

    2006-10-09 at 3.17 am
  351. [Canada] djDavidj says:

    Hey Boriel!

    Keep up the great work, I know this is a hobby, so if i had the cash I would send it your way, but I don’t so instead I am sending you this comment to say “I don’t have any errors” Just saying thanks and keep up the great work… when you have the time! :)

    Take care
    David

    2006-10-13 at 3.38 pm
  352. Mi-sms says:

    Hi, thanks for your information. Great site.

    Keep it real…

    2006-10-15 at 11.52 am
  353. [Canada] Pat says:

    cool plugin

    2006-10-16 at 2.13 am
  354. [Netherlands] Rob says:

    Testing

    2006-10-16 at 8.44 am
  355. [United States] Tim says:

    Hi,

    Great plugin!

    I recently wrote a CAPTCHA that requires no image library – it uses ASCII Art Fonts!

    you can see an online example here

    Thanks for a great plugin!

    - Tim

    2006-10-17 at 4.38 pm
  356. erik says:

    8O :?

    2006-10-19 at 5.36 pm
  357. [United States] Dan says:

    Excellent work!

    2006-10-21 at 7.16 pm
  358. [Argentina] Jose says:

    HI Thank you for publishing it.
    I cannot make it work.
    I get this:
    Error! No TTF font found!
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /content/web/webmanual/wp-content/plugins/captcha.php:238) in /content/web/webmanual/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 272

    Any Ideas?
    Thank you in advance!

    2006-10-25 at 6.58 pm
  359. [Italy] Alan says:

    Hi, I need some help with your plug !!!

    I think that is my theme that is not compatible because don’t have the usually comment.php file but only a index.php file that make it all.

    there’s any string of code to add whenever any theme is not compatible with your plug ??

    please help me if possible thanks !

    Because the same plug ( your ) work perfectly with other themes…. but i wish this one !

    2006-10-27 at 9.09 pm
  360. [Spain] Boriel says:

    [English] To ALL Users: Comments are closed. A new forum (phpBB2) has been opened for support and questions. Please, go to http://www.boriel.com/phpbb2/ :!:

    [Español] A TODOS los usuarios: Los comentarios se han cerrado. Se ha abierto un nuevo foro (phpBB2), para preguntas y ayuda. Por favor, diríjanse a http://www.boriel.com/phpbb2/ :!:

    2006-11-01 at 10.38 pm
  361. [Germany] Comment Spam at EvilScientists says:

    [...] Da wir in letzter Zeit von Comment Spam überrollt werden (>10.000 Messages in ~6Monaten), hab ich eben mal ein Captcha Plugin installiert. Hoffe das bereitet nicht mehr Probleme als es lösen sollte [...]

    2006-11-05 at 1.54 pm
  362. [Spain] Apeiron » Archivo del Blog » Desafío de inteligencia artificial innato para humanos says:

    [...] Debido a la gran cantidad de robots spammers que se dedican a mandar spam a los blogs en forma de comentarios he decidido insertar un reto de inteligencia artificial (módulo Captcha) a la hora de insertar comentarios de forma que las máquinas no superen el reto y un humano lo haga facilmente. [...]

    2006-11-06 at 8.01 pm
  363. [United States] Feras’s Blog » Blog Archive » New Theme says:

    [...] Update: I added an image authentication plug-in. The plug-in is called captcha!, and to make it less hard for you. All you have to do is authenticate ONE character from the image… [...]

    2006-11-11 at 10.54 pm
  364. [United States] Liquidmatrix Security Digest says:

    [...] This will help for others to search out tag words to find your blog postings with search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Technorati and Feedburner. Now the one plugin that I cannot do without is the Captcha! spam blocker. I loath spam and I was really annoyed when I used to have to clear out the spam comments. This plugin cut that out. It’s still available however, this will no longer be maintained by the author as he has moved on to using the Wordpress HashCash plugin. I haven’t tried this one myself but, I have heard good reviews so I’ll put that on my list of things to do (…number 28,735). [...]

    2006-11-12 at 5.14 pm
  365. [United States] Menjajal Spam Karma 2 at iqbalir says:

    [...] Pagi ini saya ditanya teman tentang cara paling efektif menangkal spam pada Wordpress. Plugins yang sekarang saya gunakan adalah Akismet dan Captcha. Menggunakan kedua plugins tersebut memang sangat nyaman sekali. Saya tidak perlu me-moderate comment yang masuk. Semua yang tidak lolos dari saringan masuk (input code yang di generate oleh captcha) akan langung di delete. Ini termasuk pada comment dalam bentuk pinback dan trackback. Disinilah salah satu kelemahan Captcha, meski bagus dalam menangani spam comment, tetapi buruk dalam menangani pingback dan trackback. Captcha tidak dilengkapi dengan pingback dan trackback validator untuk membedakan pingback dan trackback spam. Saya sudah mencoba menginstal plugins trackback validator untuk mem-validasi pingback dan trackback, tetapi nampaknya hasilnya tidak sesuai dengan yang diharapkan. [...]

    2006-11-13 at 6.33 am
  366. [Taiwan] 修復 trackback 功能 [JeffHung.Blog] says:

    [...] 但是?怎麼?測此次 comment_post 是?為 trackback/pingback 呢？我?是 wordpress ?人，所以?好?看一下 Captcha! 的程?碼，原來關?在於，也註冊 pingback_post 與 trackback_post 這兩個 actions，於處?此兩個 actions 時記錄於 $this->is_trackback，然後在處? comment_post 時，若是 $this->is_trackback 的話，就直接通?。 [...]

    2006-11-13 at 9.34 am
  367. [Germany] datenschmutz.net » Wordpress-Tutorial: Rechnen mit gegen Spam says:

    [...] Als Captcha bezeichnet man die grafischen Texte, die zur Überprüfung in ein Eingabefeld eingetragen werden müssen. Typischerweise handelt es sich um ein Bild das aus verschiedenen Buchstaben und Ziffern besteht. Um automatisierte Spambots von menschlichen Benutzern unterscheiden zu können, muss der betreffende Texte entziffert und eingegeben werden. Für WordPress existieren diverse Captcha-Plugins – einfach zu installieren ist captcha!, der Autor selbst empfiehlt allerdings die Verwendung von HashCash (siehe unten). [...]

    2006-12-02 at 4.26 pm
  368. [Australia] web2grow - web stuff » Improving Wordpress says:

    [...] http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2006-12-03 at 12.42 pm
  369. [Germany] 42 | The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything » Blog Archive » aus gegebenem Anlass says:

    [...] … musste ich das Eintragen eines Kommentars in mein blog durch Captcha! sichern. Vor lauter spam war kein echtes Kommentar mehr zu identifizieren. Ich hoffe das reicht vorerst als Abwehrmassname, um den ganzen ein wenig den Riegel vorzuschieben! [...]

    2006-12-05 at 8.48 pm
  370. [Germany] Spam Karma - ganz Böse! at Phantastische Welten says:

    [...] Liebe Gemeinde, ein Captcha-Plugin, das die manuelle Eingabe eines visuell dargestellten Zufallscodes beim Kommentieren erfordert, erfüllt den gleichen Zweck! Es schützt sehr zuverlässig vor Spambots ohne die lokale Datenbank damit zu belasten. Und User denen das Abtippen des Captcha-Codes jedesmal zu viel abverlangt ist, die dürfen sich auch gerne einen Account registrieren und können als verifizierter User der Prüfung entgehen. [...]

    2006-12-09 at 4.38 pm
  371. [Germany] Notizblog » Blog Archiv » und es wird weiter gespammt… says:

    [...] Da dieses ach so tolle Ajax-Spam-Schutz-Script nicht funktioniert (grade flatterte mal wieder eine neue Mail rein) werde ich wohl ein Captcha nehmen. Dabei ist meine Wahl auf CaptCha! gefallen – vielleicht taugt das ja was :-/ [...]

    2006-12-10 at 11.23 am
  372. [United States] Life In Beta » Blog Archive » Captcha! says:

    [...] Wednesday, December 13, 2006 @ 5:54 pm Posted in: Technology I installed the Captcha! plugin for WordPress the other day. So far, so good as far as not getting any more spam comments. However, I want to make sure that people aren’t having problems commenting — so please comment on this entry and let me know if it works for you.  captcha, plugins, wordpress Leave a Reply [...]

    2006-12-13 at 9.55 pm
  373. [United States] complich8’s journal » Blog Archive » Prevention versus amelioration says:

    [...] Captcha! is a more direct approach. Rather than guessing whether a comment is legit or not, why not just block out the generally irritating spambots before they can comment at all? [...]

    2006-12-15 at 7.54 am
  374. [United States] blog.thomaspan.com » Upgrading WordPress says:

    [...] CaptCha! [...]

    2006-12-24 at 8.46 am
  375. [United States] blog.thomaspan.com » How to avoid blog spamming says:

    [...] Finally, I choose Captcha! since it is easy to install and my web host has GDlib pre-installed. In order for the plugin to work, one needs to download some twisted TTF fonts freely available from this site. Share and Enjoy: [...]

    2006-12-26 at 3.41 am
  376. [Denmark] Nyt design « Jakob Jensen says:

    [...] Jeg har også fået gjort noget ved mine plugins, jeg har fx smidt SimplePie pluginet(tidligere indlæg) ud igen og begyndt arbejdet på mit eget. Har skiftet Captcha pluginet ud med Akismet, og det var en klar forbedring! Resten af mine aktive plugins er Hello Dolly og Wordpress Database Backup, men de er vidst nok begge standart plugins. [...]

    2006-12-31 at 2.56 pm
  377. [Hong Kong] 狗爺語錄 » 加上 comment spam plugin says:

    [...] 到最後，決定了用 Captcha! plugin。雖然花了一點點時間在設定上，但最起碼是能夠用了，不像之前的，花多少時間和它摶鬥都不夠。 2005-12-23 02:37 [...]

    2007-01-09 at 1.54 pm
  378. [Hungary] MiVanVelem - Karikatúra, IT, hétköznapok » Kapcsa says:

    [...] Kapcsa By JoeP A spam elleni harc jegyében megint kavartam a blogon. Az Akismet lehet, hogy jó, de nekem decemberben napi 30-40 spam-et engedett át – és hiába fogott meg mellette százat, hagyott azért munkát nekem is. Ekkor jött a Hashcash, mely az Akismet-tel párban abszolút remekül dolgozott. A Hashcash olyan napi 10 szemetet engedett át, azokat meg az Akismet csípte nyakon. A védelmen egy hónap alatt olyan 3 spam jutott át. A gond csak az, hogy ehhez bekapcsolt javascript kellett a látogató részéről – és némi szerencse. Eddig kétszer fordult elő ugyanis olyan anomália, hogy valakinek a kommentje ‘elveszett’ az éterben: az illető elküldte, a Wordpress tudomásul vette, a blogon meg is jelent, hogy van komment az íráshoz – de az mégsem érkezett be az adatbázisba. Emiatt úgy döntöttem, hogy szép az, ami egyszerű: kikapcsoltam mindkét védelmet és feltelepítettem egy Captcha! plugint, dacára annak, hogy a szerzője mindenáron megpróbált lebeszélni róla. Mostantól itt is be kell gépelni azt az öt karaktert, melyet meglehetősen meggyötörve tesz ki egy grafikára a plugin. [...]

    2007-01-21 at 2.08 pm
  379. lapedrada.es.kz » Plugins para WordPress says:

    [...] Captcha!: Muestra una imagen distorsionada (’captcha’) con un código alfanumérico que el usuario debe introducir para que su comentario sea aceptado (se usa contra el Spam). [...]

    2007-01-23 at 3.37 pm
  380. [Taiwan] 花栗鼠柑仔店 » Blog Archive » Blog的comment spam無止盡 says:

    [...] 我查了一下Captcha的原作者, http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 他說他改用了另外一套防止spam的軟體 wp-hashcash, 這邊他有提到 為什麼? 總之我看完以後我也改用了, 實驗看看吧, 技術上我還在瞭解其原理: What it does: [...]

    2007-01-26 at 2.39 am
  381. [Germany] Franky’s Welt » Captcha says:

    [...] Hier klicken [...]

    2007-02-06 at 7.06 pm
  382. [United States] Writer’s Blog » Blog Archive » Once More With the Housekeeping says:

    [...] Final note, hopefully, on the comment spam and trackback issue — I found a different bot check software called Captcha! that still provides the security of random image generation to prove human commenting but that also allows continued trackback capability. Non-registered users will have to type in the code at the bottom of the comment field before submitting, where registered users will not need to verify their comments. Oh, and let me know if you find the font too difficult to read because that’s an option I can change. Enough of this….Share This Tags: plugins, software, spam, trackback, wordpressplugins, software, spam, trackback, wordpress [...]

    2007-02-07 at 2.52 pm
  383. [Germany] Tjeerdoo.com » Blog Archive » Wordpress Captcha says:

    [...] Captcha! (http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17)  [...]

    2007-02-12 at 2.31 pm
  384. [Italy] Developing Mind » Captcha Plugin - Patched says:

    [...] Since I decided to start blogging again on this blog, I saw my WordPress Captcha plugin from Boriel didn’t work anymore. [...]

    2007-02-12 at 8.00 pm
  385. [United States] James Curbo’s Weblog » Upgrade time! says:

    [...] Tonight I did a whole bunch of stuff to my weblog.  It all started because I wanted to install the Now Reading plugin that I read about on Something Awful, so I could do all sorts of cool book stuff on here.  It recommended installing Wordpress Widgets.  When I installed that I got a script error, and decided to go ahead and upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.  In the process I upgraded the Captcha plugin I’m using and had to modify my custom theme for Widgets.  I ended up cleaning up the CSS a lot in the meantime.  Now I just need some gradients or something.  After I got Now Reading up and running I started poking around the Widgets plugin site and found some nifty widgets like this APOD Widget and a Gallery 2 widget.  Wait, what’s that, there’s a way to integrate Gallery and Wordpress?  Oh man I have been wondering about this for a while but never really looked for anything like it.  So I installed WPG2 and enabled the Random Image widget. [...]

    2007-02-12 at 9.43 pm
  386. .: K M X :. » Blog Archive » Opdatering Af WordPress says:

    [...] Så hvis du fremover skulle finde en grund til at skirve en kommentar i min blog – hvilket du er meget velkommen til – så skal du lige genkende 5 tal og/eller bogstaver, der er blevet forvredent lidt. Systemet hedder Captcha! [...]

    2007-02-16 at 7.24 pm
  387. [Netherlands] Wordpress Plugins Themes Download » Blog Archive » Captcha! Plugin says:

    [...] http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-02-21 at 3.22 am
  388. [United States] The Blue xB » Wordpress Captcha Plugin… says:

    [...] your own fonts to use with the plugin so you can be really dynamic in how the image turns out.                     Tags:  NoTags [...]

    2007-02-28 at 2.56 am
  389. [Taiwan] Yu-Chao`s Multi-IT Lab» Blog Archive » CAPTCHA Upgrade! says:

    [...] Captcha!最為花俏、美觀的 CAPTCHA Plug-In，安裝時也需設定好字型支援。樣本圖片： [...]

    2007-02-28 at 10.51 am
  390. [Portugal] Blog do Fred » Blog Archive » Venham os comentrios says:

    [...] Captcha! – Cria uma imagem com texto, gerado aleatoriamente, que os visitantes tm de inserir [...]

    2007-03-01 at 12.44 am
  391. [Germany] partyzine.de » Kampf dem Spam… says:

    [...] CaptCha! http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-03-01 at 8.36 pm
  392. [United States] kd7onc.net » Blog Archive » Captcha! says:

    [...] And if you decide to try and leave a comment, you will be presented with an image asking you to fill in the box with some letters and numbers. I’m sure you’ve all seen this before and I apologize that my laziness is causing you more work. If you’re interested in getting something similar, you can download it for yourself at http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 it will probably break in the future. But if you’re interested it is still available. [...]

    2007-03-06 at 11.05 am
  393. [Ireland] Spear IT Blog » Blog Archive » Anti-spam plug-in for Wordpress Blog? says:

    [...] My own Wordpress blog here had been plagued by spambots for over a week mainly because the hosting providers didn’t have any anti-spam plugin available. So in my searches I came across Captcha, which does the trick. Captcha is one of little graphics that we commonly see on sites to verify that the user is a human and not some form of automated tool. [...]

    2007-03-07 at 11.34 am
  394. joshkuhn.net :: - » A New Side Project says:

    [...] Captcha! [...]

    2007-03-08 at 5.36 am
  395. [United States] Captcha | blog.miiro.com says:

    [...] Kyseinen Captcha!-plugini perustuu HN Captcha-PHP-luokkaan. [...]

    2007-03-21 at 7.59 pm
  396. [United States] SEO Blog - всё о дорвеях (Doorways) » Капча says:

    [...] Для тех кому понадобится качнуть плагин можно отсюда, там же и шрифты под неё. [...]

    2007-03-22 at 12.59 pm
  397. [Germany] Captcha is back at Phantastische Welten says:

    [...] Ui, ja, guckmal hier: http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-03-25 at 2.37 pm
  398. [United States] Wordpress Comment Plugins: Building A Fortress To Defend Against Spam! at MUSicTECHnology.net says:

    [...] While there are a couple of other great plugins that are similar like Meyerweb’s WP-Gatekeeper ,  Did You PASS Math?, ΛορδΧηαος’s Challenge Plugin and Captcha!, I am a real fan of the simplicity, functionality and currentness of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Plugin. Peter’s plugin works with Wordpress 2.1.2 and has some great functionality that includes customizing the words used for detecting spam still allows for pingbacks and trackbacks! Something I certainly still want and I know you do too! [...]

    2007-03-28 at 5.45 am
  399. [Spain] El Rincón de Boriel » Blog Archive » Mejora de Trackback Validator says:

    [...] Aparte de Captcha!, para luchar contra el SPAM via trackbacks, uso Trackback Validator, que funciona muy bien, pero tiene un problema.: independientemente de que el Trackback sea basura o no, lo recibo por correo si activo “enviar comentarios por correo” en el panel de administración. [...]

    2007-04-01 at 12.34 am
  400. Profesor Blog » Los Mejores Plugins Para Worpress says:

    [...] Captcha!: Muestra una imagen distorsionada (’captcha’) con un código alfanumérico que el usuario debe introducir para que su comentario sea aceptado (se usa contra el Spam). [...]

    2007-04-14 at 10.14 am
  401. [United Kingdom] Neil Duffin Blog » Blog Archive » Captcha! has left the building says:

    [...] to the new server I thought it was time to re-evalute this decision and looked at alternatives to Captcha! The author of this plug-in has stopped supporting it / using it and has moved over to one called [...]

    2007-04-14 at 3.46 pm
  402. Giuseppe Taibi’s Techlog » Blog Archive » Beyond captcha says:

    [...] I clicked on its link I landed on a website sporting a vintage Sinclair ZX Spectrum ( <3 ) [...]

    2007-04-15 at 4.59 am
  403. Giuseppe Taibi’s Techlog » Blog Archive » Beyond Captcha says:

    [...] the Spam Tools page that listed 8 plugins under Captcha. I decided to start with the one called Captcha! BUT…when I clicked on its link I landed on a website sporting a vintage Sinclair ZX Spectrum [...]

    2007-04-15 at 5.51 am
  404. [Germany] Daves Blog » Blog Archive » stöckchen: wordpress plugins says:

    [...] CaptCha! – im Moment inaktiv, siehe hier [...]

    2007-04-30 at 3.43 pm
  405. WP Plugins DB » Blog Archive » Captcha! says:

    [...] Visit [...]

    2007-05-20 at 7.47 am
  406. COMPU-RECURSOS PLUGINS PARA WORDPRESS « says:

    [...] Captcha!: Muestra una imagen distorsionada (’captcha’) con un código alfanumérico que el usuario debe introducir para que su comentario sea aceptado (se usa contra el Spam). [...]

    2007-06-19 at 7.54 pm
  407. [Netherlands] blog.eppenga.com » Blog Archive » Fighting Spam on your blog says:

    [...] Website El Rincón de Boriel (Captcha! Plugin) [...]

    2007-06-19 at 9.52 pm
  408. [United States] 博客如何对抗垃圾留言? | 博客学堂 says:

    [...] : Captcha要求留言者须首先回答一个简单问题，如 [...]

    2007-06-26 at 9.26 am
  409. [United States] thaihoney’s world » :: comment validator for wordpress :: says:

    [...] die if you saw how many links these spam programs try to include! alas, i stumbled upon captcha, a program that requires anyone who wishes to leave a comment to type in the letters & numbers [...]

    2007-07-07 at 2.30 am
  410. [Colombia] » Enchula tu Blog,Plugins Para Worpress Información Tecnología Internet y Gadgets says:

    [...] Captcha!: Muestra una imagen distorsionada (’captcha’) con un código alfanumérico que el usuario debe introducir para que su comentario sea aceptado (se usa contra el Spam). [...]

    2007-07-14 at 3.33 am
  411. [United States] Karim’s Blog » Odiosi spammer says:

    [...] ora ho risolto solo il secondo punto, ho installato il captcha! plugin che ho diligentemente modificato per supportare anche la lingua italiana. D’ora in poi per [...]

    2007-07-15 at 6.04 am
  412. [Italy] BlogGiando » Blog Archive » Captcha! - Plugin Wordpress contro lo Spam says:

    [...] Maggiori info [...]

    2007-07-18 at 3.26 pm
  413. 垃圾就是垃圾 : 徒然之書 The Void Notes says:

    [...] 留言的時候，加入字碼認證，這方法和 (4) 一樣麻煩，看錯打錯是常有的事，如果你用的是網上下載的流行字型，很容易被 spammer 破解，除非你願意自己設計字型。 [...]

    2007-07-23 at 3.02 pm
  414. Diário de bordo says:

    [...] Repositório anti-spam: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools O que eu usei:  http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-07-24 at 11.14 pm
  415. Transfer Money WebLog » Blog Archive » All about Networking says:

    [...] El Rincón de Boriel » Captcha! Plugin When I turn off Captcha, WP displays fine, including the footer of the page. When I turn Captcha on, the page abruptly ends and does not display the footer area of WP which should include the Captcha … http://www.boriel.com/plugins/captcha-plugin/ [...]

    2007-07-31 at 12.21 am
  416. Nine Rivers 九河下稍 » Blog Archive » 个人Blog防范垃圾评论最有效的方法 says:

    [...] 这里是一个Wordpress的Captcha插件：http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-08-14 at 10.10 pm
  417. [Spain] Emilio-Jose Rodríguez García » Adiós al Spam en wordpress.. cueste lo que cueste.. says:

    [...] Captcha! [...]

    2007-08-16 at 10.35 am
  418. [Spain] Personal e Intransferible. » Harto del Spam says:

    [...] y no demasiado engorrosa y al final me decidí, de entre todas las que se ofrecen, por un sistema Captcha (el típico “Introduce este código en la ventana”), pero tras leer las explicaciones [...]

    2007-08-24 at 7.03 am
  419. [Hong Kong] アジアの片隅から » Blog Archive » スパムよ消えろ！ says:

    [...] 今回導入したのはCapcha!と呼ばれるプラグインです。 [...]

    2007-08-26 at 2.53 pm
  420. [France] fougeray.net : Le weblog de Charlie Fougeray » Mise en place du plugin "Captcha!" says:

    [...] dans les commentaires du blog depuis hier, j’ai décidé de mettre en place le plugin “Captcha!” pour Wordpress. Ce plugin ajoute (comme son nom l’indique) un captcha sur le [...]

    2007-09-04 at 10.35 pm
  421. [United States] Women’s issues – career, business, and technology » Must Have Plug-Ins for Blogs says:

    [...] http://akismet.com/ http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/ http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-09-15 at 3.08 am
  422. [United States] » Plugin “Captcha!” says:

    [...] http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 [...]

    2007-09-22 at 1.49 pm
  423. [Russian Federation] Капча для Wordpress : Блог Молчуна says:

    [...] Скачать плагин можно здесь [...]

    2007-10-05 at 11.10 am
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