I got fed up clearing out the moderation queue every day, so I adapted one of the botcheck plugins for WordPress to be much simpler in terms of code size, because that was a fun project, and I had time to spare.
It asks, “Are you a spam-bot?”, and the user has to type ‘no’.
I think this is both amusing and capable, although very easy to bypass, but I’d be interested to see if any bot authors bother.
To install:
- View the source code
- Paste the code into notepad and save the file as ’simple_captcha.php’
- Upload that file to your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory
- Activate the ‘Simple Captcha’ plugin from the WordPress Plugins control panel.
I got fed up clearing out the moderation queue every day, so I adapted one of the botcheck plugins for WordPress to be much simpler in terms of code size, because that was a fun project, and I had time to spare.
It asks, “Are you a spam-bot?”, and the user has to type ‘no’.
I think this is both amusing and capable, although very easy to bypass, but I’d be interested to see if any bot authors bother.
To install:
- View the source code
- Paste the code into notepad and save the file as ’simple_captcha.php’
- Upload that file to your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory
- Activate the ‘Simple Captcha’ plugin from the WordPress Plugins control panel.
