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Stopping Comment Spam

Geoserv — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:04:52 +0000

One of the biggest issues with the Pligg CMS is SPAM. As a Pligg powered website owner you are constantly dealing with submissions of links that are blatent spam, spam bots and spam in the comments. To be fair, Pligg is not the only CMS that faces this issue, but it does have very little deterents in place to prevent it.

I have told you how to prevent auto-submitters or spam bots from submitting to your site by using reCaptcha on step 1 of the submission process. If you successfully install it, you will see a drastic decrease in spam as bots will no longer be able to submit, which is the source of the most of the spam submissions.

The only other source of spam is via the comments. This again has been a problem with Pligg since day one and if you search their forums the developers have yet to post a solution to users being able to post links in their comments.

I will show you 2 methods for dealing with comments that contain spam links.

Making comment links nofollow

Open libs/utils.php, find:

function text_to_html($string) {
return preg_replace(‘/([hf][tps]{2,4}:\/\/[^ \t\n\r]+[^ .\t,\n\r"\'])/’, ‘$1’, $string);
}

change it to:

function text_to_html($string) {
return preg_replace(‘/([hf][tps]{2,4}:\/\/[^ \t\n\r]+[^ .\t,\n\r"\'])/’, ‘$1’, $string);
}

Make links un-clickable:

Open libs/utils.php, find:

function text_to_html($string) {
return preg_replace(‘/([hf][tps]{2,4}:\/\/[^ \t\n\r]+[^ .\t,\n\r"\'])/’, ‘$1’, $string);
}

change it to:

function text_to_html($string) {
return preg_replace(‘/([hf][tps]{2,4}:\/\/[^ \t\n\r]+[^ .\t,\n\r"\'])/’, ‘$1′, $string);
}

That’s it. Which method, is up to you.

Which one will you be using?

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Pligg upgrade nightmares

Geoserv — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:12:20 +0000

The latest release from Pligg v1.0 came with a lot of promise. New features, a new admin panel and what was belived to be a more stable version. This sadly is not the case.

While the latest version is on the right track, it should NOT be available for download unless it is for testing only. But if you go to the homepage of Pligg and click the download button, it’s what you get. This is only hurting Pligg as it is making members more frustrated and upset because this release has no business being the default download.

I’m not going to get into reviewing this release because I already did that back on February 19th with my post Pligg v1.0 RC1 Review, this post is to alert new members of Pligg that using the download provided by the Pligg developers is a waste of time.

I cannot put my finger on what happened in this version to make it a disaster, perhaps they spent too much time on the admin panel, which works, or the template, which is awful, or maybe it was the Groups addition, which seems to be one of the only working parts of this release.

When I reviewed this release I said that it was commendable that they were able to create the Group feature, and I still feel this way, though not many Pligg installs need it or should use it unless you have a great traffic base. While it was asked for in the forums, it came at the price of a now worthless CMS.

Anyone who downloads the latest version or upgrades to it, will be sorry as it will result in headaches and a lot of fist pounding.

For the sake of the project, I plea to the developers to make the default download from the homepage, download the 9.9.5 version and work on the kinks and errors with this release before telling new members to download it. But for some reason I do not see this happening.

We will NOT be releasing any templates for the 1.0 version as it only encourages people to upgrade or download it. Instead, we will start releasing templates for the 9.9.5 version to encourage people to stick with v9.9.5 until the developers have all the kinks worked out of v1.0.

This brings me to my next point, the developers. I will say this again, I love the CMS but have issues with the developers. Period. About a year and a half ago I was banned from the Pligg forums and rightfully so. However, I recently decided that I would attempt to have my member name (Geoserv) reinstated. I emailed the admin team asking for a truce and for the reinstatement, a week later no reply.

I summized they are probably busy working the errors with this releases, but then I also realized that I was getting responses from none other than chuckroast when he was receiving emails asking for assistance with modules from the module store that I had purchased to see what I would get and to see what support I would get on.

If you give them money, they will come!

Want the developers attention, give them money, they will reply almost immediately. But if you submit a general question, good luck getting help. Chuckroast will reply in the forums, but it will almost always be a smart remark or a remark only an egotistical !@#hole will give or it will be as useless as the current version is.

I did all of this as a test to see where their real attention lies, it’s on their worthless modules that they are trying to pawn off on you to get your money to support a version that is worthless.

Again, they are only interested in making money with worthless modules and not developing the CMS.

I listed a couple of these modules here and told you how to get the same thing for free. That shows that I am interested in only one thing, making Pligg users happy, not profiting from it. I will be exposing more modules soon as well.

Again, I am not bashing the project, anything open source I am on board with, but for all Pligg users you need to be concerned. If the developers, 2 at present, continue on this current path it will certainly mean the end of this CMS. People will not support a script that is flawed and only interested in ripping you off.

Pligg’s head developer and the only one with a brain, Ashdigg, left the project and started his own at Social Web CMS, and most likely because he saw this crap coming. Now, do I suggest you drop Pligg for Social Web CMS, no. But I encouage you to look at the past and what Pligg was back when Ashdigg was there. It was a much better run script that didn’t focus on ripping you off, instead it focused on actually coding a script and helping members, you know the members who helped Pligg get to where it is now.

Without people like Ashdigg, LincolnHawks, davemackey and myself, Pligg wouldn’t have some of the things it has today. But they don’t see that, they simply see us as enemies, too bad sice we are some of the few actually working to help it.

Thats my rant.

Now, for those of you looking to download the v9.9.5 version or to revert back, I have attached it below, it is the original 9.9.5 version, I recommend you use it until v1.0 gets a lot more work done to it.

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

What do you think of the latest version?

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Pligg’s bright new future

Geoserv — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:59:53 +0000

As most of the readers of this blog know, I’m not the biggest fan of the developers over at Pligg, and I have made this clear on a several posts, but I have always stated that I do believe in the CMS and that with the right development it could have a bright future.

Over the past 12 months there hasn’t much development, released that is, except for contributions by Pligg members and the several paid modules which in my opinion have taken a higher spot of the list of priorities for the development team. I blogged about one module that was released, but it definitely wasn’t tested properly prior to the release.

However, it now appears that the development team has found their second wind and have big plans for the popular and quite possibly best Digg clone. They have released some information about the upcoming release of Pligg 1.0 and it looks good.

One of the biggest changes that will definitely change Pligg forever and also increase it’s possibilities is a “Group” function. This has been sought after by numerous Pligg sites. As you can imagine, this is a major coding feat and will enhance the experience you can offer your users and will attract more users to register at your site. It has been highly successful at Mixx and can broaden your network of friends.

Pligg has also changed their default theme, thank god! It now looks more inviting and professional. This however doesn’t mean that you should use it, I am not a big fan of using the default theme in any CMS or blogging script, sites need to stand out. However, perhaps this new theme can be used with some modifications to make it more unique to you.

I am patiently waiting to see what other changes are in store for Pligg 1.0. They are not saying when this version will be released.

Get full details over at their blog…

In this case I must congratulate the developers for a job well done, providing they actually deliver on it.

Does this renew your faith in the Pligg development team?

Pligg developers robbing new members

Geoserv — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:04:02 +0000

Chuckroast is up to his old tricks yet again, as for Yankidank he is just as guilty for not stopping it.

First the developers started posting modules that will not work with the Pligg CMS without butchering key features of it, for example this module, which has no business being released as compatible with Pligg. I posted a viable solution to achieve this effect that will work with Pligg here.

Pligg seems to be more into pushing useless modules that you need to pay for instead of offering support. This explains they declining member base and support which is clearly shown here.

Hopefully more and more new Pligg users read posts like this one and see what they are in for. The CMS itself is good, but the development staff are unfortunately pushing people to use other CMS’s like Social Web CMS.

Here’s the latest instance of Pligg developers robbing new members.

My good friend Lincoln has also written about this over at Social CMS Buzz.

What do you think about current state of Pligg?

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Pligg The First True Interplanetary CMS System Lands On Mars

Geoserv — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:56:38 +0000

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