Comments on: Little Fix For The CommentLUV Plugin v2.5.4

By: Graham G

Graham G — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:25:27 +0000

I occassionally get messages that i cant comment on blog because i am behind a proxy does anyone know why this occurs?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:35:58 +0000

This is interesting to read about this fix, though frankly, I’ve not noticed any problems personally when posting comments on blogs with the commentluv plugin. So far I’ve not had any issues, but I will return here to apply this fix if I do.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:09:41 +0000

I love the one about Homer.

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:58:32 +0000

if it is around line 50 then the only time it would fire will be when a user activates it if it is unchecked. how many times do you think the average user will click it? tick goes in, tick goes off, tick goes in, tick goes off hehehe homer would love it.

maybe a little bit of me wants everyone to have it on by default …might have to bring that up with my code psych

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:38:47 +0000

Andy Bailey said:

both the plugin and commentluv list are populated by javascript so a cURL robot or script posting direct to wp-comments.php wont fire the commentluv.

OK, I understand - JavaScript is also often used to spam protect comment forms: if the user has JavaScript enabled, they don't even see the spam protection, because JS fills out the necessary field automatically - robots can't (or don't) do that. Point taken. Must have been a "manual" spam comment, then (who does that?). Andy Bailey said:

I think you could have got away with doing a call to cl_dostuff(cl_settings) on line 50 so it fires if they click the checkbox.

I tried that, but that way, it was fired each time the box was de- and reactivated (which I did not want - it's unnecessary traffic for your server, right?). In addition to that, I needed the ".empty()" - otherwise, there would have been the well-known "link accumulation" in the selection tab.

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:56:30 +0000

the link gets shown at commentluv because it stores it as soon as it gets asked for which is when the user starts to comment (I have no way of knowing if they submit it or not unless I middle man the process which could slow things down for commenters).

both the plugin and commentluv list are populated by javascript so a cURL robot or script posting direct to wp-comments.php wont fire the commentluv.

doing it this way has reduced spam hits to my server by over a million per month which is nice for me!

I think you could have got away with doing a call to cl_dostuff(cl_settings) on line 50 so it fires if they click the checkbox. if they click it first before they enter their details then it will fire when they click into the commentarea.

yours works for you though, maybe I’ll put it in the next version thanks!