Expression Engine, spam prevention.
Oh, there’s been some very bad behavior overnight. Naughty spammers in my comments.
I installed the Akismet extension last evening, but it is not enough, given the popularity of this site. Some slip through. So, as I had done on my WordPress site, I’ve installed Bad Behavior as an extension, and the No Follow plugin. [Note that extensions and plugins get installed and activated in different places in EE, and use the x.11 or newer of BB, or you’ll be blocked from commenting your own site]. EE already has a preference in the Control Panel to expire comments after a period of time, so that’s taken care of on EE install.
Funny, the captchas were enough on previous sites. Guess I’m a juicier target than I thought. So comment and trackback spammers take note, your efforts are worthless on this weblog.
Oh, I ran into a problem. Got a white screen instead of my weblog. Turns out the instructions for installing Bad Behavior are a little misleading. You don’t slap the whole Bad Behavior folder in EE’s System > Extensions folder. You put the subfolder named (lowercase) “bad-behavior” in there. The overarching “Bad-Behavior” folder contains four or five files for WordPress and other applications. You want the “bad-behavior” folder that contains “admin.inc.php” and a slew of other php files.
I’ve also added a new “Expression Engine” category to this weblog, for those who are interested in tracking my experience.
Later: Scott had an issue with the RSS feed here not formatting the text of the entries. I’ve applied this fix.
