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Sites Update: New Homepage, Spam Protection

Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Len Mason

A couple of new items have been implemented today. We are now highlighting the five latest posts from your blogs at http://blogs.elca.org. Have a look! The more you post, the more homepage face time you get! (MU developers: this was done using the sitewide recent posts plugin.)

Secondly, in addition to Akismet comment spam killer, I have installed some more protection. This should kill a lot of spam before it makes its way to you to have to approve or deny it. It also adds CAPTCHA to the comment field. You’ll notice the “churchy” words I picked if you take a look. (MU Developers: I used the Farms comment spam pack to accomplish this.)

Happy blogging!

Special thanks to @andrea_r for her help!

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  1. Paul Edison-Swift said,

    on October 8th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Great job Len! My captcha word was bible.

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