The only glitch in my Movable Type 5 installation is that the plugin I use to block spam, CCode, seems to have disappeared. The website is still there but the download file isn't. I couldn't find a copy of the files on my computer, and didn't feel like hunting through my old MT 4 installation to find all the parts of it, so I skipped it.
Well it took about 12 hours for the spammers to find my blog. How do they do that? I'm getting spam comments at a rate of 2 per hour. And that's just the ones getting to me, that MT can't identify as spam. I have MT set up to hold all comments for approval unless the commenter logs in, so none of them are being published on my site. Still, it's a pain in the butt to have to delete them all, plus the email notifications. So I guess I need to find out what all the parts of CCode are, find them in my MT4, move them to MT5, and cross my fingers that it still works.
I hope CCode isn't gone for good; it's a great plugin. It adds a field to your comment form, with a randomly generated value which is obscured by Javascript so the spammer can't figure out what it is. And any comment which doesn't include that value doesn't post. It blocks all comments which hit your comment script directly, while passing all comments that are typed into the comment form on the page. It's the most effective method I've ever seen for blocking spam without any inconvenience to genuine commenters.
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